I am now in Kabul for my professional work. There are so many thoughts come and go. Being away from my hometown, from my family is not that easy to adopt here.

When I first saw the airport through plane window, immediate thought came to my mind, if it is an international airport or simply a distrcit airport of my country. And then hour long que to get entrance. Still I could not receive my luggage. It came a day later. Thank god it was intact and nothing was missing from it.

I am happy that I have some colleques who are very helpful and fully committed to their work.

I have visited my field twice in three weeks. It is in the NE part of the country and it takes nearly 10 hours drive from Kabul.

Site is remote but still accessible and people are very helpful. There are so many negative impression of the country infront of the world but the people are very nice and very helpful. During the fieldwork I got different occassions to interact with local people. They are also equally committed to develop their country.

War makes a country worse. this country is the unique example. But still my own country is not far away from the fact that the previous war has made my country worser. A country which used to be zone of peace is now a symbol of war. lots of intelligent people have migrated from the country.

I want to conclude that Afgahnistan will be one of the most beautiful country in the world in coming days.

Shailesh, Sept9th, 2006.