Finally the day has arrived and I am now sitting in the train on my way to the airport.... The tough goodbyes are said and now 26 hours of travelling ahead. I have small pieces of facts about Bangladesh which are forming some ideas and expectations for this adventure. I also know that alot will be very different from anything that I can imagine as I sit here in a top-modern IC4 train with blond and smart danes around me, eating my rugbrød with spegepølse and chatting with my friends on facebook and skype.
However forming those expectations are not completely wasteful as they are making me excited and happy about the forthcoming adventure and forgetting about the tough goodbyes. And I also believe it is healthy to form these expectations but at the same time be open when arriving to Bangladesh to break all my expectations. I think this is how we realize that it is absolutly impossible to set ourselves in others' place without at least experiencing what they come from and what their realities are. And even then, as I will leave again and come back to cold Denmark for Christmas -eating way too much and exchanging expensive gifts, I will never be able to understand what it is like to be born and living all ones life in a country which is struggeling so much with natural diseasters and poverty. But this will not keep me from trying as much as I can.... to challenge my own world view and beliefs. How can I know what change is needed and where I should put my efforts if I haven't even explored the problem...
Bangladesh -here I'm coming! And uuuh I am so excited!!! :)
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