Category: Bangladesh
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Burn Out
24 February 2019 “This past week I was involved in a training session on PFA – Psychological First Aid. One of the key topics we discussed was on resilience, or as I like to call it, “Bounce Backiness.” As a whole, people are resilient. The vast majority of us have the capacity to overcome some…
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Life in a Rice Field
I now live in the middle of a rice field. Or, as we’ve affectionately come to call it: “The Shire”. We don’t yet have the rustic wooden sign outside the front of our big, white 3 story house to announce your arrival into Hobbiton… but it’s coming. Instead, we just have exposed electrical wires, unreliable…
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“A Day Behind And A World Away”
Do you know what one of the greatest things is? Getting mail. Not e-mails (though those can also be pretty sweet when they’re not work-related), but proper snail mail. Like, writing out mailing addresses, licking stamps, and wandering around foreign cities trying to find a post box (or some nice stranger willing to mail things…
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Chittagonian Princess
It’s 6:10am on a Friday, and after pushing the snooze button a couple times I finally drag myself out of bed. Half-asleep, I fumble across my flat to boil some water for coffee. A few of us were up late last night, sipping on wine, chatting about Ebola, and discussing how not to kill the…
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Across the pond to a White Christmas
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh Today is the day I finally cross back over the ocean, returning to the land of snow and ice. I’m ill-prepared for the drastic change in weather I’m about to face, (pretty sure my leggings and long-sleeved dress is no match for a Canadian winter), but I’ve got my new cozy Cath…
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“Don’t do your laundry on the weekends”
“Do you really know where you live? Do you know the ins and outs of every street, and every seemingly unknown path? Take a minute and explore the unknown. Say hello to a complete stranger and ask them to show you around… and I’m pretty sure you’ll be amazed at what you can find, even…
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Si algo no te gusta, cámbialo.
If you don’t like something, change it. All these long days over the last 21 weeks have caught up to me. I don’t feel like me anymore. I’m exhausted. Not just physically, but mentally. There are days when I feel like I care so little; and there are moments when all I want to do…
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House Plants
For the first time since June I’ve just had 2 whole glorious days off in a row! It’s incredible how free you feel when you get 2 solid sleep-ins and all the time in the world to do anything you want, or nothing at all. And you better believe I’ve soaked in every last wonderful…
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Expat Culture Shock
expatriatenounnoun: expatriate; plural noun: expatriates/ɪksˈpatrɪət,ɪksˈpeɪtrɪət,ɛksˈpatrɪət,ɛksˈpeɪtrɪət/ Ever since I began travelling, I’ve always wanted to live in another country. It was something that was always gnawing at me. Not that I wasn’t happy living in Canada (in fact, travelling has made me realize how lucky I am to call Canada home), but I longed to live…
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Kites over camp
I can’t believe how fast time is going… and it’s been a while since I’ve given a proper update on what’s been going on over here, so it’s time to share! First of all, check out Cox’s Bazar from the air: … not a bad place hey? Anyways… A few days after I returned from…
Teryn Warnke 