BBQ, the wall and a grapevine.

June asked about the locals living on site, how did they eat or go to the bathroom? Well, they just squat whereever they want and go. Don't ever walk up to an afghan squatting on the ground, just sayin. For food, they dig a hole and make a fire and cook in that. They mix up a dough sort a like a pita bread. They don't eat much more than that except for some onions and potatoes. Remember that "home" to them is still not luxurious. Most of them have never had electricity. Ever.

From a party last week, this cat may not have realized how close it really was to dinner!



This is me and "Iffy",the civil construction manager, watching construction of the wall.

We're having a wall built around the perimiter of the camp, approximately 2.3 kilometers and from the ground to the top it's 2.5 meters tall. The stone masons (that we have to fight to keep out of sandals) plop down some mortor and put the stones from the local mountains on top. The final product is amazing.



This is a shot of the Market from when I first got here.. the chests and boxes are amazing....

Here's the back yard where we spend most of our Fridays after we go to the market. We can get some sun, barbeque, even light the fire pit. The humidity here is nonexistant so sometimes 70 feels cold.

This is the grapevine in the back yard.


We work Saturday through Thursday, Friday is the Holy Day here. Often we are limited in the places in town that we can go because of various situations ..... better safe than sorry. Our supply of movies and tv shows come from the market as most of the channels here are all Indian. We do get HBO in english but it's so heavily sensored or the times are so screwed up that we can't watch it anyway. We have gotten mostly boxed series at the market like Rome, The Wire, Dexter for dirt cheap.....20 bucks for Dexter and Rome (2 seasons each) and the Wire was 5 seasons but it was 30 bucks. These bootlegs can be totally crappy, you know, guy sitting in the movie theatre with a camera in his hand, but most of them are good. TV watching is most of my evenings, mixed in with Skype time with Jenny. My evening time is the best time for anyone to call me, from 10am to 1pm east coast time.... John and June you guys need to get a web-camera. All the cool kids are doing it.

I shouldn't have waited so long to get this up. It's just boring every day stuff to me now, but I'm glad you all are enjoying it.