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| What we eat here |
| 07.02.04 (7:56 am) [edit] |
We have the same routine every week at the dining factility. I eat a granola bar for breakfast (not a breakfast person), and then lunch consists of hot dogs or hamburgers, jo-jo potatoes, lunch meats that sit out in the open for about 3 hrs, cheese, a few veggies like carrots or celery, and that's about it. They have diet sodas, weird afghan milk, canned apple juice, orange juice, grape juice, and water and gatorade.
For dinner it's usually chicken baked or fried, some sort of beef, either smothered in bbq sauce or meatballs in sauce, once in a while ham or pork chops, and on fridays steak and lobster tails. They also have either potato salad, noodle salad, green salad, fruit salad, mashed potatoes and either corn or carrots or beans for dinner as well. Same drinks. I think they have about 9 different meals they rotate for dinner... lunch is always the same, as is breakfast.......
oh and the best part is going to the dining facility we walk over the open sewer and smell that lovely raw sewage smell to get our appetites going!
I know i shouldn't complain, at least we get regular meals that aren't MRE's. I feel so bad when I see all the food that is wasted when there are hungry people on the street right outside the gates it makes me not so hungry....
I went to the bazaar today and bought some gifts for my July and August birthday friends. I bought one thing for myself. A picture that an 11 yr old boy drew/painted. It's abstract, not like his other pieces, of a lady in a burka during the taliban times. It's very dark and sad. I had to have to it remind me what I'm here for. When my digital camera arrives I'll take a pic of it. His father was very nice, very supportive of his son being an artist (of course it's an income as well). It's one thing that I have gotten here that really means something....
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posted by: misskendy (reply)
post date: 07.02.04 (2:44 pm)
Looking forward to seeing the picture.
posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 07.02.04 (6:35 pm)
Kendra -- So glad to be able to read the rave reviews of your working partner??? Am enjoying reading about your day. Would love to see the picture the little boy painted. Keep your head down and eyes and ears open. I worry about you.
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