Category Archives: Reflections

Questions & Answers

 

We had an open and public Questions and Answers session some weeks ago and we would like to publish it in this entry post.

Why do we want to publish it? Because we think some of you who are kindly following our adventure-project-trip might find some of the questions and some answers useful or interesting. If you have been following us, you might know some answers already, but we think there were some interesting questions worth publishing. So here we go, this was the open Q&A. We hope you like it !

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Curiosities…Bangladesh

We notice a lot of things when walking the world.

As similar as we all are, we do things differently, either because of customs, cultures or habits.

Here are a few of the curious things we discovered in Bangladesh, in random order. (Lluís does a much better job remembering and noting all these little things. Check out his post in Catalan, published the same day as this one; you can use Google translate to get the gist.)

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Cooking Together

 

“Would you like some coffee? And we have cake…want a piece?” asks Mele as I untangle myself from my walking cart harness.

“Yes! Thank you!” Homemade cake and fresh coffee sound like a perfect way to kick off this phase of our trip.

It’s been a long travel day. The coffee feels good sliding down my throat, scratchy after an overnight flight. It’s nice to feel like I’ve walked into a new comfort zone.

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Silenci !!!! Si us plau

 

Prou clàxons i soroll !!!!

Entenem perfectament que els clàxons dels vehicles son totalment necessaris i han de formar part de la seguretat vial. Però els clàxons, amb el soroll i molèstia que generen, han d’utilitzar-se correctament.

Per Bangladesh i per Índia, sent extensible a tots aquells indrets on fan un terrible ús i abús d’aquesta arma contra les oïdes i la salut mental, proposo:
1. Vendre tots els vehicles, fabricats amb la limitació de que puguin fer sonar el clàxon només 5 vegades cada 24 hores. Ni una més. Si aquesta primera opció no funciona,
2. Connectar uns cables elèctrics a les parts més íntimes dels conductors que sense cap excepció i a partir de fer servir el clàxon 5 vegades cada 24 hores, aniran deixant anar una descàrrega elèctrica que augmentarà d’intensitat a mida que es vagi utilitzant.

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Time to Connect

“I want to be an actor,” an older teen says. He has some beautiful dance moves down pat, and almost made us cry with his monologue interpretation of a being a kid on the street.

“I will study technology,” chimes another teen.

“I want to be a cricketer,” asserts a 10-year-old, nodding his head as if it’s already a done deal.

The girls huddle nearby, playing timid, but when they perform a welcome dance for us, their shyness disappears and their light inside brightens up the room.

These are a few of the children at the Aparajeyo-Bangladesh’s Chittagong Center. If they weren’t here, many of them would be living on the streets. They come from who knows what kind of backgrounds–domestic violence, drug-addicted parents, sex industry abuse. The sad list goes on.

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Gràcies per continuar | Thank you for Following Along

 

Un cop caminades Tailàndia, Birmània, Pamir, Tadjikistan i Uzbekistan amb aproximadament uns 3.500 quilòmetres al sac, ara us volem tornar a donar les gràcies per seguir amb nosaltres, per seguir recolzant-nos i ajudant-nos d’una manera o altra.

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For those of you wondering, we have walked approximately 3,500 kilometers through Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, the Pamirs, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan since we set out in January 2016. It’s been an amazing, challenging, breathtaking, inspirational and not-always-easy walk so far, and we are looking forward to starting our next leg in Bangladesh and India in a few weeks when the monsoon season ends.

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