After a rather bad & short night due to construction work ongoing under my windows (starts around 6am until midnight, everyday), I went to the office with the same driver from the company: apparently he'll be with me during my whole stay . Situation there is still messy... I'll be training the current CAT controller + the new F&C employee. Met as well the country controller + CSM. I should be invited by them to the U.N. club, only place where you can have fun here. Met also a girl from Finland, coaching the FSP. She spent one week there and will come back in one week's time.
After work, went for dinner with Imran. We ended up in an Afghani restaurant: good kebap and pretty interesting discussion regarding current social situation here: woman's place, man's duties, religion...
Friday was a day off due to Mohammet's birthday but we still went to the office, the 3 of us. Excellent day, no interruption, we had a good training session until 4pm. Then Imran left and I went with the new guy, Sajid to a view point out of town.
Pretty narrow road to get there, no real good driver met... ;-) Very wide view of Islamabad from Damen-e-Koh: the whole town is covered by green trees. There is a legislation forbidding houses higher than 2 floors, including ground floor. Many Pakis go there to relax in the evening and I was the only foreigner. We still went further up the hill to get another view and some more fun in the traffic (saw a motor-bike with a whole family of 5 on it but camera too slow for shooting it).
Once night had fallen we went shopping in the so-called "blue-zone" (commercial area). Many DVDs shops, seem to have interesting movies. Religious music was blasting from everywhere but we still enjoyed some local fruits in very spicy sauce. Then back to the hotel.
I' ve also posted pictures (and still will) on the yahoo site (address in previous post).
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