mr pika

The security meeting was held at the governor's office at 1000. The weather was not too hot, only 30 degrees, and the meeting informative and concise. I managed to deflect all accusations of discontinuing the water deliveries to the prison, anyway. On the way out of the meeting I had the privilege of recieving my most hilairous request up to now. I've had some pretty outrageous demands come my way during my time here, but this one is so personal and unabashedly self-righteous that it clearly takes the prize.



During the day I made and received some phone calls to PRT HQ, and tried to write the report from the security meeting, but was constantly interrupted. At 1515 the chief of the Agricultural Department turned up at our gate like we had agreed yesterday. What we had not agreed on was, that he wanted to borrow one of our vehicles, by himself, to collect his driver, whom he had just minutes earlier sent away - with his mobile phone! As he was on foot, it took him about 45 minutes to walk back to his office to get his driver and a vehicle. We were supposed to go out to look at some land areas that they were supposed to have planned to suggest to us, but instead they stopped by the roadside after driving about 15 kilometres and asked us where we wanted to go. You just have to stand in awe of the proficiency of the Afghan civil servants. Then it started to rain.