For the first time in many days, we didn't leave camp today. There's not much point in going anywhere, because we won't be able to have any meetings without interpreters. We could of course go on road recce or something, but we usually like to combine thing like that with other patrols. So today we could concentrate on the usual thursday activities: unloading the food trucks and receiving the support transport. We also had an hour of weapons training. There were two surprise visitors: the head of security for UNAMA dropped by to hear our views on the security situation in Samangan province. He was from India and looked like a guru with long, white hair. The other visitor was a private constructor, who wanted to offer his services to the PRT. Fortunately both of these visitors spoke English.
The interpreters were at CNL. There was a memorial service there and they also participated at the private funeral. There will be a mourning service at some mosque tomorrow that will last 5 hours, so they won't be available tomorrow either. Fortunately it's Friday, so there probably won't be much going on anyway.
I ate too much today: there was hamburgers for dinner. For lunch we had pea soup and Poor Knigts. What's worse, I just haven't had time to go to the gym now that the CO and OPSOFF are on leave. What even more worse, there's ice cold Inza Choko Drink available in the dining hall fridge every morning. It's just too good to be missed - but it also has all the calories.
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