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		<title>Christmas: Chakma style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my Christmas plans ended up in a heap in the corner after being beaten senseless by Bangladeshi bureaucracy, I have spent my Christmas here, with my Chakma friends.  I am so touched at the effort that people went to, in this hastily organised Christmas lunch. About 30 people attended the lunch, held at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1321&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Haircut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What WAS I thinking?
Lessons learnt:
- impromptu haircuts while out shopping after work are ill advised. This is especially true when living in Bangladesh.
- when the hairdresser in the &#8217;salon&#8217; is threading someone&#8217;s eyebrows when you arrive, and giving someone else a facial when you leave, caution should be exercised.
- there are three options for women&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1307&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas: Cancelled</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ (yes you) it&#8217;s been a nightmare over the last few days&#8230; holiday plan wise.
India is a no go as it takes 6 days to apply for a visa, which you have to do in person, in Dhaka . If I did apply, I&#8217;d obviously only get the visa after New Year. And since I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1305&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abort</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repeat Abort stop
Holiday plans in disarray due to f&#38;*$%^^ Bangladeshi visa people. Impossible to get tourist visa once INSIDE Bangladesh.
So Laura has to leave Bangladesh, to come back in as a tourist. Which means screw St Martin&#8217;s, we&#8217;re going to India instead! Calcutta to be precise. Oh what fun. In the words of Laura, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1298&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning a holiday in Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is a LOT of work.
My festive plans are such:
1) Travel from Rangamati to Bandarban on the 24th, to spend the 25th (I keep forgetting that is in fact Christmas day&#8230; It. Just. Does. Not. Feel. Like. Christmas. Here) and 26th with a friend.
2) On the 27th travel from Bandarban to Rangamati, with said friend, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1284&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m proud to have a British passport* this Christmas&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rage Against the Machine has won the battle for the UK Christmas No 1 single, with Killing In The Name, a.k.a Fuck you I won&#8217;t do what you tell me&#8230;
Hysterical. I love the fact to half a million people went out (well, went online) to buy the single just to ensure that the X Factor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1272&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, I do actually do some work sometimes too</title>
		<link>http://estellevisagie.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/yes-i-do-actually-do-some-work-sometimes-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I hosted a workshop on monitoring and evaluation here at work. Very, very simple monitoring and evaluation that I&#8217;m trying to implement here. The original participants numbered about 10, but lines of communication between myself and Chanchu (the Executive Director) were crossed/ignored. So instead of 10 people, 35 people turned up. Which in fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1268&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meetings: Bangladeshi style (part two)</title>
		<link>http://estellevisagie.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/meetings-bangladeshi-style-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To pick up where Meetings: Bangladeshi Style (part one) left off&#8230;A few other meeting observations I&#8217;ve made over my time here:
- It&#8217;s fine to burp. Out loud, no hand in front of mouth, and not followed by &#8216;excuuuusse me!&#8217;. In fact, burping anywhere is perfectly acceptable. Here, it&#8217;s much like hiccuping, as if something over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1251&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Booze Cruise*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Yesterday, along with a lot of other people in Rangamati, I went for a picnic. With my director, his family, a member of the executive committee, his family, and another man, and his family. I think I&#8217;ve met this other man before, but can&#8217;t say for sure. It&#8217;s a problem, forgetting names AND faces. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1255&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I haven&#8217;t won the lottery yet</title>
		<link>http://estellevisagie.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/why-i-hadnt-won-the-lottery-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple answer: my internet speed*.
It keeps letting me down at the crucial moment. I&#8217;ve picked my numbers, using my mind-bogglingly complicated mathematical and scientific system (closing my eyes and randomly clicking on the screen, peeking to check until I&#8217;ve hit the required amount of numbers), and then&#8230; my internet dies or goes so   s&#8230;l&#8230;o&#8230;w&#8230;l&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estellevisagie.wordpress.com&blog=6929267&post=1248&subd=estellevisagie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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