Some recent street scenes

I'm a bit behind on posting some photos, so I will try and do some catching up...things might be a bit out of order.
First, an example of a building all decorated with wedding lights and a flowered entryway. These pop up here and there around town - my theory is that (aside from looking magical in the dark) it's easy to find the wedding if you're attending. They can just say the neighborhood, then guests can see which building the event is in very easily. I don't know if this is what actually happens, but either way, it looks beautiful at night.
The next is an image of all the pots and pans the factory cranked out like mad the week before Eid-al-Adjha. They ran the factory almost nonstop 24 hours a day and then it was blissfully quiet for an entire two weeks!! There was a constant stream of shiny, new pots and pans being dried, stacked and tied onto bicycle carts to be delivered.....
These next two are images from a quick trip I made down to Petanga beach with Ibrahim a few weeks ago. This is the southernmost tip of the peninsula of Chittagong and is on the Bay of Bengal, so it has HUGE shipping tankers coming and going.
We left school late one afternoon and didn't make it down there until after dark, so the shipping barges looked like a city all twinkling in the distance. The first photo is of the tasty snacks and warm beer we had. There was no refrigeration, so I didn't really want a warm beer, but the guys who ran the snack shack sold it pretty hard and we finally agreed. They were also trying to sell the various other kinds of liquor that "fall off" the ships they said. But you had to buy an entire bottle and they were very expensive..... So the warm Heineken actually tasted good for two reasons: because it was different than the crap Bengladeshi beer I normally drink and also, the food was very spicy so I needed something to cool my mouth! We had chatpati (spicy potato, egg, various other tasty bits inside crispy puri shells, served with tamarind/chili water), some masala channa (spiced chick peas) and some peeaj cakes (fried lentil and onions). The (one) beer cost 400 taka (~6 dollars) and the food cost 100 taka (~$1.50).
After successfully eating all this food with no upset stomach , I feel ~almost~ like a local....
This next photo is the "kitchen" where the tasty snacks were prepared. One table, a gas burner to heat the pan and oil, bottled water to drink, buckets of water to wash/cook with (no sink or refrigerator or walls. If you look closely, you can see the row of twinkling barge lights off in the distance. That's some random photos from recently...more to come!