Weekend

Today is Saturday or maybe Sunday...sort of.  It's the weekend here whatever day it is.  Sometimes the weekends are Thursday and Friday, sometimes it's Friday and Saturday, suffice to say its a fairly restful day.  From where I sit in the lounge room of the guest house I can hear the preaching from the mosque.  It's been a fun day.  I went to a meeting this morning with a group of expats, some of whom (especially the men) look very Afghan.  There is a lot I can't write on this blog due to security issues, but it was a great and interesting morning.  Then a few of us went out for lunch at an  Afghan restaurant nearby.  I obviously had to take photos of everybody's plates so that I can show pictures of the food, there was also either a party or a meeting happening in the courtyard of this restaurant, and one man at the head of the table was playing a guitar like instrument and singing, I managed to surreptitiously take a photo or two, with my friends posing like I was taking photos of them and then my zooming further in, it was fascinating to see and hear these people, and my seat at our lunch table afforded me a great view, although as a woman here I have to be careful of making too much eye contact. I ask lots of questions of all the expats I meet, and everyone is always interested in what I am doing here, people wonder if I am coming to work here, but are also interested when I say I am a student interested in Afghanistan.   I would like to post some photos on this blog, but for some reason my iPad doesn't let me. Don't worry I am taking plenty of photos and will bore everyone when I get home!