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Well back at afghan land. I found out when I got here that well I was gone we had a bit of a swine flu outbreak… An outbreak being one person… But it meant my first day consisted of getting a flu shot in each shoulder while I was replacing a video card in one of the hospitals machines
Another addition is that they are building a small health clinic here. The company has decided to hire a doctor and a nurse so they can have more than 300 people on the ground. The forces have told them no more than 300 till we do. My only surprise is that the clinic is right ware we had our little outdoor movie theater. That’s been replaced with a big screen TV in the top floor room of the Oasis. (the companies little club house) You can sigh out the room for two hours at a time in the evening to watch moves. It didn’t take long for people to notice that you can lock the upstairs door from the inside so it’s now the “Choice” spot. And remember fraternization is forbidden.
The poor Oasis, it was packed on Sunday night to watch the Grey Cup. For us that started around 4 am Monday morning and its surprising how many went, you could tell who stayed up to see it at 8 am by the number of people with bags under their eyes and muttering or cheering “too many players” depending on what side of the country they were from.
I got told that we are now actually planning to shut down the place in 2011 with the understanding that the military may change their mines at any time as it has a tendency to do so. You can tell on the faces of lots of the long term people are now a little lost trying to figure out what they will do next. Many of them are in denial and just say things like some will have to stay or that the U.S. will start another war. For me it gives a natural breaking off point where I have to stop playing in the surreal sand box and get back to the real world. It really sank in when they asked us to look for things we don’t use much as things that can be sent back early.
If you’re a bit confused I may have said this in the past but this place is very much like a very large prison except the guards looks out not in. And like they say in shawshank redemption some people become institutionalized. But you get vacations and your bank account gets bigger every two weeks. Some people have been working here for years and worked in Kabul before this and Bosnia before that. Yes Institutionalized to this life style. (WARNNING the following sentence may break your brain just a bit) That reminds me, the London underground has lots of posters on the walls for the live stage performances in London and one poster was advertising the soon coming “Shawshank Redemption” the stage musical… That broke my brain a bit too.
Another addition is that they are building a small health clinic here. The company has decided to hire a doctor and a nurse so they can have more than 300 people on the ground. The forces have told them no more than 300 till we do. My only surprise is that the clinic is right ware we had our little outdoor movie theater. That’s been replaced with a big screen TV in the top floor room of the Oasis. (the companies little club house) You can sigh out the room for two hours at a time in the evening to watch moves. It didn’t take long for people to notice that you can lock the upstairs door from the inside so it’s now the “Choice” spot. And remember fraternization is forbidden.
The poor Oasis, it was packed on Sunday night to watch the Grey Cup. For us that started around 4 am Monday morning and its surprising how many went, you could tell who stayed up to see it at 8 am by the number of people with bags under their eyes and muttering or cheering “too many players” depending on what side of the country they were from.
I got told that we are now actually planning to shut down the place in 2011 with the understanding that the military may change their mines at any time as it has a tendency to do so. You can tell on the faces of lots of the long term people are now a little lost trying to figure out what they will do next. Many of them are in denial and just say things like some will have to stay or that the U.S. will start another war. For me it gives a natural breaking off point where I have to stop playing in the surreal sand box and get back to the real world. It really sank in when they asked us to look for things we don’t use much as things that can be sent back early.
If you’re a bit confused I may have said this in the past but this place is very much like a very large prison except the guards looks out not in. And like they say in shawshank redemption some people become institutionalized. But you get vacations and your bank account gets bigger every two weeks. Some people have been working here for years and worked in Kabul before this and Bosnia before that. Yes Institutionalized to this life style. (WARNNING the following sentence may break your brain just a bit) That reminds me, the London underground has lots of posters on the walls for the live stage performances in London and one poster was advertising the soon coming “Shawshank Redemption” the stage musical… That broke my brain a bit too.