Afghanistan (Day #3)

This post is 3 day of work in Afghanistan.   This is a little more coherent.   Disillusionment has yet to set in.

Well, it's day 3 of work only 362 days left to go.   It really isn't all that bad I sleep in a 8 man room but it is arranged so everyone has their own little cubicle.  People hang sheets around their bunks for further privacy I have met my roommates who seem to be good people.  Every time I have been in the room it has felt like I was the only one there even though there were 2 or 3 people besides me in the room.  I don't mind it because I am mainly there to sleep so it really isn't all that bad.  

I'm lucky I have my own office which I am in from 0530 to 1930 most days the people that work for me have a desk right outside my office. I also have people that are at different FOBs that work for someone else but I’m there company site lead for any company administrative issues.

The food is not bad but could be better; once you get your food you find a table to sit at usually with another person who you don’t know.  Today I had breakfast with an Indian contractor; who told me that he was from eastern India the city Visakhapatnam.  He was a friendly person who told me that his city was a popular tourist destination.  

We have a very diverse group of contractors on Bagram which is the number one job provider in Afghanistan.  Most of the non-technical jobs are done by Afghans, the semi-technical are done by Filipino or Indians.  The highly technical that require military logistics, IT, Maintenance is done by us American Expats.

The office I work in is a converted shipping container with my office with a door on one end and an entrance door with the open office on the other with one long desk with six works stations.  I would describe the office more but we are supposed to move in the near future.

Today my lost bag is supposed to arrive from Dubai.  Yesterday it was in terminal 3 and had to be transferred to terminal 2 for this morning’s DFS flight into Bagram, Afghanistan.

The lady I’m replacing Marry has been here for 5 years. Personally, I don’t see how she has done it but she explains it this way.  After her husband died she came over here and the people on the base became her family, but now it’s time to go.  She is 62 time to retire to her house in Florida to live with her sister.