bangkok street fair

tomorrow is the start of week three of the spring semester at AUW. unfortunately, my camera is not working (again), so i don't have any new photos to share. but i do have quite a lot of photos from the last few months. 

last fall i took a trip to thailand. perhaps my favorite night of that trip was spent walking around bangkok, and stumbling upon a street fair. there were simple rides and carnival games. the weather was warm, the food was good. the people were enjoying themselves, and there were lots of guns.

tennis in chittagong part II: ball boys

i am back in chittagong for the spring semester, after spending time in korea and the states over winter break. also, my computer is working again, after having problems for most of december. so i intend to post more photos and reflections in the coming weeks and months.

in the fall, i posted some photos from a trip to the tennis courts in chittagong. however, the best photos were not of AUW faculty players, but the kids at the courts. a group of boys stood around watching us, or playing soccer, or wrestling with one another, or posing when the camera came out -- or posing and wrestling at the same time. (see below) one of them worked diligently as a ball boy for us, and at the end we paid him for his efforts.

one of the delightful things about taking pictures in bangladesh is that, for the most part, people really like to have their pictures taken. this is especially true of children. though for some reason, posing for a group photo often quickly evolves (degenerates? develops?) into a wrestling match.