A few random shots

Here's a collection of some recent photos that aren't necessarily classifiable or worth an entire blog post alone.
First, me and little kitty I took care of a few weeks back for a friend--we made friends and he killed a handful of cockroaches for me, too!
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All the monsoon rains gave a lot of rainbows, which were nice:
This is outside my apartment window and the rainbow is ending near this raised rotating restaurant. Apparently the restaurant isn't open anymore, but it's a very recognizable landmark on the skyline.
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Here's a few of food - the first is a HUGE citrus the locals call jambura. It's most similar to a pomelo, but tastes more like a big, dry grapefruit. They're really tasty and in season right now. As you can see, also FULL of seeds-I think they're mostly just fiber and vitamin C, both of which I could probably use more of in my life, so I'm trying to eat half of one of these per day. I paid 18 cents for this one.
The next is of fresh-grated coconut which I've been using as much as possible. The only hurdle is that I don't have the big curved machete/knife to cut them open, but my neighbor does and often they give me the coconuts for free, too because their family grows them.
And here's my fast-growing basil enjoying the view from my patio. They're from the seeds my parents sent. I am really loving having it - it's completely unavailable here, so it's a way to get a 'different' non-bangladeshi flavor into my food....this photo was taken a week ago and the plants are already significantly bigger!And finally, the mobile street-paving setup that was down the street from school this week. These guys were cooking up some asphalt that was smoking and bubbling in these high-tech reaction chambers. We could hardly breathe while we walked by--I can't imagine what it would be like to have that job! There were also a lot of women hauling sand and gravel on their heads that I didn't catch in the photos.
It's no wonder a bunch of us faculty are experiencing asthma-like symptoms lately!