Goodbye

In the morning I spent an hour working out on the treadmill. After Friday's brunch I cleaned my room and the CO's office. We spent the afternoon waiting for the transport to take the Finnish soldiers, whose turn it was to rotate home, to CNL. The transport was late due to a traffic accident in Khulm pass, but eventually they arrived safe. We loaded all equipment into a lorry and the soldiers boarded the APC, but not before a short farewell ceremony had been performed. No-one got emotional, or at least they didn't show it. With the transport three gentlemen from Finland arrived. Their mission is to plan how the reinforcements that the Finnish parliament recently decided to send to Afghanistan should be deployed here. Today was quite warm, 17 degerees in the afternoon, but in the evening it started to rain.