Thumbs Up [6.05.08 Michela]

Just a typical Thursday morning in Bangladesh…We woke up at 6:30am (which is not so bad considering we all crashed around 9pm), I accidentally rinsed my mouth with tap water for the 3^rd time since we’ve arrived (and thus will most likely be the first one to add Cipro to my daily regimen of pills), we piled into the van and somehow avoided hitting the criss-crossing rickshaws, 3-wheeled taxis, and jay-walking pedestrians to arrive safely at BRAC headquarters. By 7:15am, we filed into the 19^th floor conference room overlooking the ever-expansive beautiful city of Dhaka. And our first day of “work” began.

Turns out, we work pretty well together. We spent most of the day discussing and presenting on the 5 main qualities we think the new BRAC website should have. After researching websites we like, we combined and cut down our favorite qualities into a list of website characteristics we think would be best for BRAC and its cause. Later, after a dinner filled with discussions of Adam’s love of United Airlines, some of our recent embarrassing moments, and how we each learned the truth about Santa Claus, a few of us had a celebrity spotting of THE Mr. Abed, the founder of BRAC.

To close the day, we had a group meeting to create our MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). More importantly, we created a Roman style system of consensus when voting for important decisions. Important decision #1 was figuring out if we should eat one or two meals outside of the BRAC office tomorrow. Thumbs down – we’d discuss again. Thumbs up – Tikase.

-Michela