Bangladesh and Brownies

One week down! Today moved at a much slower pace than the packed schedule we have come accustomed to. Our day was free until 3:30 to spend time in our ethnic communities to get to know the people and area for our anthropology class, so that brought the two of us back to Brick Lane. One thing that we're studying is how the area has changed over

the past hundred or so years, and I think this picture really highlights that with the new minaret on the street with the church in the background.

We did have some really nice talks with several people Bangladeshi though. We also enjoyed a great meal and got to interview the mogul of Brick Lane.

At 3:30 we came back to the hotel to have a group time to all discuss what's going on in each of our interview and research processes.

After getting ready for the theatre for the second night in a row, Samantha and I headed to

get supper. We picked Cafe Rouge which turned out to be a superb French place. Out of all of the ethnic food we've eaten so far (Thai, Chinese, Bangladeshi, Italian, English, Turkish) it

was definitely our favorite! We were very sad, though that we did not have time for the mouthwatering brownies and ice cream dessert we had planned on getting because of the show.

Our whole group met up for War Horse. It's a

WWI story of a boy and the horse he raises that ends up going to war without him. It sounds cheesy, I know, but it actually was very good! There were huge lifesized horse puppets that really were incredible with how lifelike they were.

After the show, we were still sad about missing out on the brownie, but all of the places that could fix our sweet tooth were closed, so we went to the convenience store outside our hotel and made some dessert of our own. It was the perfect ending to our first week here!