Well I am back in Kabul for another nine days. I am a little skeptical how much work I am going to get done this time seeing as I am only going to be here for eight full days, which is really eight half days since it is Ramadan and government work hours are from 8-1, which often means 8-12 since its 1000 degrees outside and no one is allowed to eat or drink. But we will see, maybe people are especially productive when they only have to work a few hours. Somehow I doubt it, but who knows.
I made is safe and sound to the new guesthouse I am staying in, but unfortunately my suitcase did not. Fingers crossed that it shows up on the next flight or the flight after. But I had a sneaking suspicion that would happen since the last time I was here I was saying that I have never lost a suitcase, so it was mostly empty anyway. I left most of my clothes here the last time since i knew I would be coming back, so the only thing that was in the suitcase was cosmetics, my running shoes, and underwear. The underwear would be nice to have, I wont lie, but I've made it through longer periods of time with negligible personal hygiene.
I did find a roommate in my hotel room when I was going to bed. I thought at first it was an insect and i was going to squash it but on closer inspection it was a teeny tiny SCORPION. It was really small, like the size of a fingernail but still... it might be worse than a cockroach. Jury is still out. Everyone assures me that that is very rare and the guy who did squash it did it with a kleenex, so I guess it couldnt have been too dangerous. I mean it probably was as tiny as a scorpion could be. But stlil, ewwwwwww.
On the upside, I went to dinner with two of my friends Hannah and Christine and one of my professors/ bosses, Gilbert. We went to a Korean restaurant and Christine is Korean American so she ordered all kinds of delicious food. Gilbert showed us pictures of his trip to North Korea (the man has been EVERYWHERE) and we had delightful dinner conversation. We talked about everything from drug abuse in Afghanistan to family planning in Afghanistan to... ok well we mostly talked about public health stuff in Afghanistan but, still, I found it interesting.
Well, I am still totally jetlagged. Its four in the morning so I am going to try to go back to sleep but figured I would be a little productive and update people.
