Day-by-Day account – PART IV

Kabul Time = +9.5 hours on EST Example: when it is 9pm Monday in Toronto, it is 6:30am Tuesday in Kabul. SORRY FOR THE LACK OF INTERESTING PICTURES – Due to the current security situation, I don’t have the opportunity to go in public and take more attractive photos.

PART IV Jan 24th Jan 28th Jan 29th Jan 30th Jan 31st

Jan 31^st – Day of Prayers I enjoy Fridays in Kabul. Life is more relaxed for the Kabulis who all go out for a stroll. For their part, UN employees still go to work even on their only day off. Jan 31st, 12pm – View of cold downtown Kabul from my classroom at the Ministry of Communications. Jan 30^th – Snowy Kabul Jan 30^th AM: Market and Mountains Jan 30th - View from the Ministry of Communications Jan 29^th – The Workshop 2 begins Jan 29^th – Hassan, an University professor, is translating from English to Dari (Pierre: thanks for the sweater - it is warm, it is Canadian, it reminds me of you J ) Jan 28^th – Prep for the Workshop 2 The 1^st workshop I delivered was on Network Fundamentals and TCP/IP. This 2^nd workshop is on System Administration and Windows 2000. Today we configure all the workstations for the workshop. The class should start tomorrow. Kabul Street – photo from Grabriele Accisna Jan 24^th – 27^th – Long, long journey I left Toronto on Friday evening and made it to Kabul on Monday afternoon. On Sunday, our Flight Dubai-Kabul was delayed, then delayed, then delayed, then cancelled, due to a snow storm in Kabul. On Monday our flight was delayed due to fog in Kabul, but the plane finally took off and we arrived in mid-afternoon in Kabul.