I am outta here
Here are my post Pakistan Observations: The Horrors, Delights, and Questions
1) I had no idea that a whole food supply could be contaminated. I guess this is what happens if you don't have clean water and the hygiene in a country is really really bad. My first few days, I didn't take the warning, "Always know your water source" seriously, but as I saw American colleagues and Pakistanis drop like flies I began to get concerned. One colleage said to me non-challantly--my amoebas name is Sally, we all name our amoebas here. She was serious. It is equally perplexing that this same food supply can be so oily and fattening. I got sick twice--and apparently, should name my new friend.
2) The work culture in the US Embassy in Pakistan is that you work 24/7, although I am fiercely opposed to this kind of living, it is seductive. There is no shortage of important high stress work to such as participate in the relief efforts for Earthquake survivors, their sheltors are collapsing, it is wet, cold and muddy in the tent villages, and they have minimal access even to the contaminated water supplies. I traveled to the mountains twice by helicopter to help out, I loved it, but put in more than 150 hours of overtime.
1) I had no idea that a whole food supply could be contaminated. I guess this is what happens if you don't have clean water and the hygiene in a country is really really bad. My first few days, I didn't take the warning, "Always know your water source" seriously, but as I saw American colleagues and Pakistanis drop like flies I began to get concerned. One colleage said to me non-challantly--my amoebas name is Sally, we all name our amoebas here. She was serious. It is equally perplexing that this same food supply can be so oily and fattening. I got sick twice--and apparently, should name my new friend.
2) The work culture in the US Embassy in Pakistan is that you work 24/7, although I am fiercely opposed to this kind of living, it is seductive. There is no shortage of important high stress work to such as participate in the relief efforts for Earthquake survivors, their sheltors are collapsing, it is wet, cold and muddy in the tent villages, and they have minimal access even to the contaminated water supplies. I traveled to the mountains twice by helicopter to help out, I loved it, but put in more than 150 hours of overtime.
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