You know you're in Dhaka when...

You know you're in Dhaka when:

1. A random number repeatedly calls and asks to "Make friendship" to which your only logically response can be "Friendship lagbe nah" which means literally "Friendship no need."

2. A random number repeatedly calls and when you pick up you just hear Bangla music...

3. You constantly find yourself asking the question, "Why is this wet?"

4. Your hall mate cries when eating plain white rice because it's too spicy.

5. The teachers are planning a fushka eating contest as a fundraiser for student council.

6. You have to stop cars with your hands to cross the street.

7. Your rickshaw plays bumper cars with the rickshaw in front and behind almost knocking you off into the street.

8. You've stopped asking "What is that smell?" because you either already know or don't want to.

9. You have whitener painted on your arms when participating in a local fashion show as a volunteer model.

10. You find yourself being a volunteer model in a fashion show for a local charity for acid burn victims.

11. You live off of carrot cake at the ARA (American Club), and naan bread from a restaurant around the corner from your apartment.

12. The first room mate bonding experience consisted of killing a cockroach together.

13. A gecko falls from the ceiling onto the floor beside you in the shower.

14. Winter season=Mosquito season

15. The guy selling bananas only knows how to sing one note.

16. When en route to a formal event, you hop on a rickshaw in a cocktail dress and immediately regret your decision as the rickshaw driver shouts at all his friends as he passes, making you think that he's parading around the indecent foreigners he's transporting.

17. You miss snow, and even cold, because snow and cold means home, and home means all the people you left behind who love you and some days you just need them, and only them, but you know they are waiting for you upon your return.