so i am not sure whether people are still reading this or I am doing this for personal satisfaction, either way I will continue to post. todays is particularly strange, it is by far the strangest thing that I have heard in a long time. The best part about this story is that it is entirely true. in the northeasten part of bangladesh on the bangladeshi side of the border with india there are still many indigenous tribes that still practice many of their old rituals. one of their past times is making wine, how they make it i do not know. when they make it though, about the same time every year it emits a strong smell, not a bad one, but a smell none the less. okay, now we go to the indian side of the border where many elephants live. every year the elephants are drawn out of the mountians of india by the smell of the wine being made. the elephants come in herds to where they are making this wine in the villages. this is where it gets interesting. the herds proceed to enter the villages at night or the evening and drink the wine. apparently they they keep the wine in large vats, so the elephants all crowd around these vats and drink the wine. well, when they have drank their fill (most of the wine) they then proceed to roam around the countryside trampling villages and stomping everything in their path. they do this for a couple of days until the alcohol is gone and then they return to the mountians in india. this is a huge deal in that area, they cannot figure out a way to stop the elephants from coming and drinking the wine. the elephants have even shaped their migratory patterns around this. this is the craziest thing i have heard since being here. drunken elehants carousing the countryside. this sounds a lot like arkansas football game. anyways maybe that wasnt as funny as it seemed to me, but i laughed for quite some time at that one.

anyways that was kind of silly, but i thought it would be interesting to share.

people are really starting to get worried about this avian flu virus, it is getting worse or at least spreading through asia. our doctors are really worried, which makes me think it could be a fairly serious dilema. if it hits bangladesh i am sure that we will be evacuated to signapore or thailand. i would rather it didnt happen because it would be an epidemic here. the population is really dense which does not bode well when contaigious diseases are involved. but it would be nice to visit signapore for a few months. i am not going to worry to much, it is freakin bangladesh. if i worried about everything that goes on here i would go crazy! aside from the fact that this country is on the verge of an epidemic, in political chaos, and a massie upsurge in islamic fundamentalism and recruitment, things are going okay for me. at least as long as i stay indoors hahaha. so anyways signing off from the most screwed up place in the world.
the suspect shada shoitan