foy's lake: round 2

On saturday June 7, my two roommates and i decided to head to Foy's Lake (the crazy ridiculous amusement park in Chittagong) to get out of our building for the early afternoon and take a break from work. Within about 5 and a half seconds of walking into the park we heard, "Miss!! Miss Kate!! Miss Angela!! Miss Mahmuda!! OVER HERE!!"

We'd heard that three students were going to Foy's Lake with another teacher, and had hoped we would run into them, but instead we were faced with about 14 students, the siblings and cousin of one of the Bangladeshi students, no other teachers, however there WERE guards to accompany the group while they went through the park (this one student's father hooked them up while he was in Chittagong, staying next door to Foy's Lake...connections here are endless...). So, we jumped on in...bumper cars was hysterical not only because they operated as if they were approximately 30 year-old-bumper cars, but because most of our students have never driven cars, any type, real or bumper.

We then headed to the water park --- it's a bit hot over here at the moment --- to check it out. meaning we hoped on a boat to be driven through a maze of rivers to eventually end at the bangladeshi/chittagongian version of Sea World...


What's Sea World without it's own ridiculously large sign out front?

None of us had brought a change of clothes (the girls were heading to a nice lunch afterwards and had come dressed in their best to begin with...), but no worries - you can rent tshirts and shorts. too bad they're all probably a girl's size 10 since most bangladeshis are teeny tiny!! In the end we decided not to rent clothes, more because we thought it would be fun to go on the rides fully clothed. 

Here are some of the students riding down the gigantic water slide in the middle of Sea World (which, btw, consists of this yellow water slide, 2 tube slides, 2 'luge-type' slides and a wave pool...not too shabby)

Mahmuda was the only one who didn't go in fully clothed...she opted to stay dry (a decision that would reward her with comfort as we had lunch in an air conditioned room very soon after leaving the waterpark...after about 10 minutes the students, angela and myself were all shivering from being cold).  that didn't save her, however, from getting huge hugs from angela and i when we were getting ready to leave. 

pretty much - foy's lake, as cheesy as it is, is a nice getaway for the afternoon, and i love our students...they had so much fun running around the park.  it's amazing to be with them during so many 'firsts' ... first airplane flights, first time in a different country, first time at the beach, first time seeing a pool, first time on the bumper cars...it definitely makes me appreciate everything a bit more.