Two weeks from tomorrow-- I'll be taking off from Atlanta to go to LAX. Then LAX to Bangkok. Bangkok to Dhaka. Dhaka to Chittagong, Bangladesh. The total travel time is listed as 27 hours and 43 minutes. Those of you who know my love of flying are sure to be cringing along with me.
Chittagong, where I will live and teach for the next year, is a port city of 4 million sitting on the Bay of Bengal. My job is with WorldTeach, the same organization I volunteered with in Namibia. We have a partnership with the Asian University for Women (http://www.asian-university.org/), an incredible school which serves women from all over South Asia and the Middle East. I'll be working as the field director for WorldTeach's program and along with 11 volunteers will also be teaching and assisting at the University. The volunteers don't arrive until August so until then it'll be up to me to organize and plan their orientation. The school year starts in late August.
I think the next two months will be a whirlwind of newness and hard work filled with colors and sounds and a country I have never seen before. I hope you'll join me.
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"My belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives. For great poets do not die. They are continuing presences. They need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh." - Virginia Woolf
