28 hours down, 8 more to go

so here i am, in transit to the other side of the world. after a brutal 7 hour layover in frankfurt, i am happy to now be travelling with a much better air line than air canada. 9am tomorrow, we will arrive in dhaka, bangladesh where we will have a chance to rest and adjust for about a day and a half (i think) before commencing the travelling workshop on lentil.

since i am referring to 'we', i guess i should introduce who my travel partners are (for my non-UofS readers). Our fearless leader is my supervisor bert. travelling with bert is like travelling with a personal tour guide. His breadth of international experience is already making the trip very interesting (even though all we've seen is the inside of airports). bert is the lentil and bean breeder at the crop development centre and the head of the pulse crop group. bert has a miniature doxen named oskar. i love oskar except he has a bit of bladder control problem. blaine is an msc student who is studying greenness in lentils. blaine and i first bonded over a horrendous plant breeding group project last fall. blaine has never been outside of north america and kinda sticks out like a soar thumb in the airports (i can't imagine how he's going to look in the streets of dhaka. i am not sure what blaine is going to eat on the trip as he is a good 'ol meat and potatoes sk farm boy. the other 2 people i am travelling with are jesse and shauna. jesse is another msc student who is studying milling efficiency in red lentil and shauna is his wife who couldn't pass up the opportunity to join us. shauna is a massage therapist, but unfortunately has already made it very clear that she is not working while we are travelling. too bad since i am already quite stiff from plane-sleeping. the description about blaine also applies to jesse except that jesse visited boliva in highschool.

i can't believe this trip of a life time is actually happening. for a long time, i have wanted to visit south east asia. i think the only way this trip could be any better is if i get to go to an indian wedding. i am dying to see how close bollywood portrays the festivities. i am also curious to see if actually use the strange combinations of swear words like in bollywood films ....