Outsourcing

To make up for yesterday's idleness, I was out twice today: first to the security meeting, which lasted almost two hours (because the deputy governor started arguing with UNAMA's political advisor), and to meeting with the chief of NDS. That meeting lasted almost an hour. After the first meeting I briefly met UNAMA's new legal adviser, a human rights lawyer from USA. I also spoke with a Swedish medical team, who had come to change some equipment in our medical containers. After the second meeting I went to the gym and excercised for an hour on the crosstrainer. All this was possible, because I have now discovered the joys of oursourcing the writing of reports: I brought a colleague to each meeting, we both took notes, and then told the poor guy that he would have to write the report on that meeting, not me! We still go through the draft together and compare our notes, of course, but it lets me of a little easier. And sometimes it even improves the reports.

I haven't been using my camera too much recently, so here's an older picture from our medical training session last Saturday. We rehearsed how to use some support equipment, and poor J got to act as a crash test dummy.