As one travels through the journey we call life one encounters different people on their travels. Some pass by like a whisper in the wind vanishing into the past, while others may travel with you for but a brief moment but the mark they leave on your journey will stay with you always.
Hanne Cecilie has been a part of Dhaka life for the entire time I have been here, but she has been a part of Dhaka life for even longer. People like HC are rare, a person who has so entirely embraced her life here and become so much a part of the place. She is always eager to partake in the local culture and festivities (a Sari expert), as well as always being up for a good party or a political debate. How would we have coped without you for the midsummer party with your dramatic and brilliant tutoring of the frog dance? From the first week when you encouraged me to keep trying at the climbing to being a shoulder to cry on, I thank you for all that.
Dhaka is losing one of its ‘legends’ and many of us are losing a great friend, but there will be other places and other times. In the words of one of my favourite songs by Green Day:
Hanne Cecilie has been a part of Dhaka life for the entire time I have been here, but she has been a part of Dhaka life for even longer. People like HC are rare, a person who has so entirely embraced her life here and become so much a part of the place. She is always eager to partake in the local culture and festivities (a Sari expert), as well as always being up for a good party or a political debate. How would we have coped without you for the midsummer party with your dramatic and brilliant tutoring of the frog dance? From the first week when you encouraged me to keep trying at the climbing to being a shoulder to cry on, I thank you for all that.
Dhaka is losing one of its ‘legends’ and many of us are losing a great friend, but there will be other places and other times. In the words of one of my favourite songs by Green Day:
"Time grabs you by the wrist and directs you where to go,
so make the best of this dance and don’t ask why.
It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time,
it’s something unpredictable but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind,
hang them on a shelf and remember good times.
Tattoos and memories last a long while and for what it’s worth,
it was worth all the while,
I hope you had the time of your life."
9 comments:
HC leave them and come join me.....'d
HC, jag kommer sakna dig som en tok! Men jag är säker på att våra vägar kommer att korsas igen!
Kleeeeeeeeeeeeeem!
wait, i'm feeling pressure to post in another language too with linda's cool Swedish posting...
Oh HC, understanding from the beginning and being sympathetic and indulgent in my aspirational scandinavian ways...teaching me imporant phrases like:
uff da!
stor slampa
toyte norwel
and etc. etc.
anyways, i will miss not only your incredibly intelligent anthropological insights, hilariously zany ways, consistently supportive and interested heart, but most of all your dependable wonderful presence out and about and around Dhaka.
we will miss you too much ;(
yi lu pin an
(chinese blessing for safe travels: "may all your roads be peaceful")
and until our next port of intersection (greece nov 06!!)
kram, deka hobe, khodafus...
charlene
my first new and true friend in Dhaka-- you have been the spring of happiness for me here. In addition to major life experiences, we have gone through the waves of changing friends and faces together. And now you, too, must go.
Thank goodness this is not goodbye. I will see you again before I see most everyone else, but your departure will leave an gaping hole that will be too much impossible to fill. I will try my level best to keep you close to my heart until we meet again.
Sarah
i taught you that song....
i don't think so professor
What can I say... Other than that it breaks my heart to leave you, my dear friends. And that I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to meet you and become your friend. Dekha hobe!
Hanne-Cecilie!
Jag fick nu tårar i ögonen. Det blev alltför uppenbart och verkligt att du verkligen har åkt. Jag saknar dig redan så jag kan dö. Jag håller med alla tidigare talare. Som tur är är du ändå alltid närvarande i mitt hjärta och vi ses ju snart!
Too much missing available!
Lyssnar på Kari Bremnes och tänker på dig! Tack!!
Stor kram!
savner deg hc!
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