Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Afghanistan on Mar 29th, 2007
After a lot of remarks here same pictures from my daily life in Kabul. The first pictures shows the really amazing-snow-covered mountains around the town, that reaches 4.000 – 5.000 meters. It´s a pitty that you cannot see them on daylight very often cause of smog and dust. The second picture is the street in [...]
Posted in Afghanistan on Mar 27th, 2007
After some great days in Kabul I really enjoy life here and Germany is soooo far away, even if you meeting Germans everywhere and all people love Germans, cause “they were never fighting against us”… :) And I got introduced to this town by our office, Ursula and Zahir, on several trips but also by [...]
Posted in Afghanistan on Mar 21st, 2007
After my first days here in Kabul I feel almost home and appreciate, that the sun also covers now the city and it really burns, cause Kabul is between 1.800 and 2.000 meters high – so we have great climate for getting fast brown in spring. Besides this Kabul and Afghanistan are adventures: no real [...]
Posted in Afghanistan on Mar 18th, 2007
After I arrived in my office and I got introduced to the team I managed to realised, that work is gonna be different, cause of slow internet, funny working procedures and specially different mentality. Afghanian people suffered now under 30 years of ongoing war and they just want to have peace and silence and do [...]
Posted in Afghanistan on Mar 9th, 2007
After great flights about Munich and Dubai, where I first experienced a first-world and afterwards a third-world airport I arrived perfect and fine in Kabul. From the mountains I had a great overview about the city but specially the huge mountains arround, snow covered. Together with Ursula Koch-Laugwitz, the office leader of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, I [...]