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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

It's 3 card Monte, but with cars

So we are having growing pains and personnel changes here. We are doing our "reorg" and adding admin. positions left and right. The clinic is packed with people both clinic staff, new admin people, and new staff in general. I am selling space in my office as you have to go outside to change your mind. We have also rented vehicles as people are always coming and going and we are dedicating some vehicles to specific people. The PAs get a Toyota Forerunner to run around in. There is only one space to park at Camp Hicks were we live, and that gets taking by the first person here, usually our new program manager. Karki has been bringing the other vehicle here later so I just walk back listening to my ipod. I like to take the long way home, past the poo pond so I can get some exercise and unwind on the way "home." Ahhh, sunset over the poo pond, how romantic. Except for the holding your nose part. And praying for no rocket attacks. And avoiding the trucks that are depositing their loads in said pond. They have flashing orange lights on them, so they are easy to spot. And worrying about poisonous snakes or killer insect life. But, other than that it's all good. Anyway, there were two trucks at Camp Hicks and Karki left me the keys for the morning drive. The new Docs were waiting for me so I jumped in the truck and realized that I had the wrong key. The Docs walked to clinic and I walked later. I had to go back to Hicks later that morning to take care of some business. I grabbed another key and walked back. I had a patient in the role 3 that I had to make rounds on so I figured that I would walk down, get the truck and drive to the role 3. Karki said he had parked our truck on the road in front of Hicks so I walked up and down to no avail. So I figured that I had grabbed the keys to the truck that was parked in our spot, so I walked back to the Hicks parking lot. Nope, no dice. So now I walked back to the clinic, slammed the keys on the desk announced that we are missing two trucks and grabbed a set of keys to the new rental truck, and drove to the role 3. This one is right hand drive as opposed to the left hand drive Toyotas, so I was once again using the windshield wipers to signal my turns. Later I got my left hand drive truck back which had been parked around the corner (Karki failed to mention that) and had to reorient myself again. We now have the cleanest windshields in Afganistan. And the most annoyed PA...

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