In preparing for this interview, I spent an inordinate amount of time getting lost in Bangladeshi cuisine, using maybe all of 3 minutes to learn about everything else JK. The Nigerian experience is physical, emotional and sometimes international. No one knows it better than our features on TheAbroadLife, a series where we detail and explore Nigerian experiences while living abroad. Do not try this in your Zoom interviews at home kids. But, I got into a Morog Palao rabbit hole when I was em..
What is the Bangladeshi food culture like? So this is interesting. Please go on. So while I was there, I always noticed they had some type of buffet going on. Then, that would come with all these other things, for you to serve yourself with. Oh, and you eat everything with your hands there. Nigerian boarding school students will read about this serve yourself meal system, and wonder how anybody can be so reckless! And tea! They take a lot of tea. They take it morning, noon, night. Whenever, wherever.
That kind of thing. Also, they take a lot of sweet things. My sweet tooth and I will be on the first plane to Bangladesh when this whole virus situation is done with. Which way to the visa office and can I pay in cash? I got tired of that. There are cherries, pomegranates. Just so many options. Now about that visaβ¦. That was handled by the project manager, but I do know he had to go to Abuja to handle all of that. So when you touched down in Bangladesh, what was the most overwhelming feeling?
You know what? It feels like you just landed in Lagos. Girl I am so sorry! I am so sorry you got played! How did you go around the world, only to wind up in a place just like the one you left? The way you queue, the maneuvering, people using tape to tag their luggage. It was so similar, it was actually fascinating. We spent a few hours at the airport. Myself, my travel companions, some Ugandans and another man from an African country, got pulled out of the queue to get our visas and passports confirmed.
So that happened. Oh and one interesting thing before I go back to the similarities. A lot. Here, we got people that stared us down all the time. We were actual spectacles. It was the most interesting thing. So the similarities again. The traffic! There were constant standstills, trying to maneuver your car. That same Lagos craziness? It was all there. What made it even more hilarious was that they have all sorts of transport contraptions in Bangladesh. Then you have rickshaws. When I went sightseeing in Old Dhaka, I literally saw a horse chariot.
