OK, sorry about the lack of update last night - Don't worry, I'm still alive and well (obviously); I just like to inject a little artificial drama into my postings.
Actually, that's completely untrue; I actually was having far too much fun playing an crazy inversion of uno with the Pakistan / Indian expats - lots of shouting, and so much laughter that I thought I was going to throw up; anyway, we played right up to 11, which is when the generators get pulled. So, no update last night.
As last week, it was a pretty quiet day - though no security alerts, thankfully. We did have a fairly big event yesterday though - we had two new members of staff arrive - Jason and Kelly.
J**** and K**** are here for at least 6 months, and would like to be here longer, although they're self funding, but as a fellow couple of (low) 30 somethings, their personal resources aren't huge. anyway, they've given up their jobs to come over here, which is a pretty big deal, so I hope the funds come through one way or another that allow them to stay a bit longer - Afghanistan is full of NGOs that have a constantly rotating ex-pat staff - one of the real strengths of the operation of **** here is the long term commitment of the staff - at around 15 months, J**** and M**** are already the old folks (in a purely metaphorical sense!!) on the block; which gives them great relationships with the local staff, and helps them to become go-to guys amongst the larger NGO community - which helps us to have a healthy influence despite our comparatively tiny size.
Anyway, J**** and K**** seem to have settled in very quickly - in fact, they managed to learn lie dice and win convincingly after travelling for two solid days. Not bad. It's that sort of adaptability which I'm sure will be very useful here!
So, without further ado, here's a picture of everyone in the house last night (including the reprobates who kept me up) -
Actually, that's completely untrue; I actually was having far too much fun playing an crazy inversion of uno with the Pakistan / Indian expats - lots of shouting, and so much laughter that I thought I was going to throw up; anyway, we played right up to 11, which is when the generators get pulled. So, no update last night.
As last week, it was a pretty quiet day - though no security alerts, thankfully. We did have a fairly big event yesterday though - we had two new members of staff arrive - Jason and Kelly.
J**** and K**** are here for at least 6 months, and would like to be here longer, although they're self funding, but as a fellow couple of (low) 30 somethings, their personal resources aren't huge. anyway, they've given up their jobs to come over here, which is a pretty big deal, so I hope the funds come through one way or another that allow them to stay a bit longer - Afghanistan is full of NGOs that have a constantly rotating ex-pat staff - one of the real strengths of the operation of **** here is the long term commitment of the staff - at around 15 months, J**** and M**** are already the old folks (in a purely metaphorical sense!!) on the block; which gives them great relationships with the local staff, and helps them to become go-to guys amongst the larger NGO community - which helps us to have a healthy influence despite our comparatively tiny size.
Anyway, J**** and K**** seem to have settled in very quickly - in fact, they managed to learn lie dice and win convincingly after travelling for two solid days. Not bad. It's that sort of adaptability which I'm sure will be very useful here!
So, without further ado, here's a picture of everyone in the house last night (including the reprobates who kept me up) -
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