Brrrr....?

For the last few days we’ve had a nice turn in weather. The temperatures have dropped a little and the air has dried out as winter approaches (the winter season officially begins here on December 15). In the mornings and late at night it has even dropped down to about 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) a few times. While obviously coming from Colorado and/or Boston recently, the high sixties isn’t exactly prompting us to break out our parkas, things like this are relative, and for folks here, winter is a-comin.’ Everyone comments on the coldness in the mornings, and we’ve enjoyed seeing all the new winter gear around town. This morning we saw an old man walking wearing a puffy winter ski vest over his Punjabi top, and we have really had to hold back giggles at the stocking caps and scarves in the mornings! Seriously? We aren’t trying to be mean, and we know that it feels cold to people from here (it even feels chilly to us- you get used to the high nineties even at night and then 70 does feel cool), but stocking caps? We’ve also seen countless sweater vests and honestly, it needs to be noted that in any country, there are really only a few men out there that can pull off the sweater vest – everyone else looks like a creepy, prep-school reject.
We’ve heard that the record low here in Bangladesh is about 7 Celsius (about 44 Fahrenheit) and that is up at the highest elevations, so we really doubt we’ll regret not bringing our winter coats and hats along with us, but we have had to adjust a little to the new temperatures. Buildings are almost all un-heated (because the record low is still not cold!) so it does get cool in the house late at night. We’ve added a blanket and closed one of our windows so far…

PHOTO: Oh, right- that's your mess to clean up!
Anyhow, as you suckers back in the US are shoveling your driveways and scraping the ice off your windows this winter, know we have you in our hearts. We may not be so cocky in May when we are sweating through 100+ degrees everyday and 99% humidity, but for now- it is great to be in Bangladesh!