Exploring

Class on Saturday included a lot of important grammatical concepts, including how to form comparisons and impersonal construction and how to talk about liking and disliking. After class was over I had to take the quiz I had missed when I was sick.
I then took a rickshaw back to my apartment. My language partner was supposed to meet me later, and I waited a while for her to call. Then I decided to take a rickshaw to Gulshan 2 to find a bank where I could get money. I asked the guards at the Westin where I could find a charter bank, and they told me that it was about a kilometer south of there on the same road. They suggested taking a rickshaw, but I decided to walk there instead. I talked to people I met on the way. There was one flower seller, or folwallah, who I talked to for a few minutes; he asked me where I was from and whether I wanted to buy flowers from him. Further along I met some people selling embroidered bedcovers. I talked to one of them for a while, and other men stopped to join in. It was fun. He wanted me to buy one of his bedsheets, but I explained that I couldn’t fit it into my suitcase. I walked on, eventually found the bank, and took a rickshaw back to the Gulshan Dui circle. I talked to the rickshawallah a little bit. As we were moving away from the group of rickshaws he was sitting with, he yelled something about 50 taka to his friends. I asked him about it, and he said something to the effect of “it was a joke.” I was happy that I understood enough to get the humor of it.
Moumita hadn’t contacted me yet, so I went back to the Gulshan 2 bazaar, looking for ribbon to trim one of the salwar kameez I was going to take to the tailor. There’s only one lace shop in that bazaar, so I spent some time there trying to find something that would match. Nothing did, so I went to the next shop and bought some pretty, fancy ornas. I then walked through the market and found the lungi store area and the sari stores. People kept asking me to come in and look at saris, but I told them I didn’t need any.
The first time I went through Gulshan 2 circle, I had talked to a street kid selling stickers. When I went back out to the circle to meet up with Moumita, I met him again. He recognized me and we talked. I didn’t know enough Bangla to really ask him much of anything, but we talked for a bit anyway. I then met up with Moumita and took a rickshaw to Banani supermarket. We went to a few stores to look at ribbons for my salwar kameez, and eventually found one that would work. Then we went upstairs to get my sari back from the tailor and dropped off my new Monipuri sari and orna for finishing. Then I wanted to buy some Bangla movies. I asked the storeowner which were his favorite Bangla movies and bought two of them, then did the same thing for Bollywood. The rickshaw rides from Banani Supermarket to Gulshan 2 took longer than expected, because we got caught in a jam, but I managed to get home in time for dinner.