Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
It’s part two of our series on the Dutch in Afghanistan - “Just Doing My Job”.
We’ll hear stories of soldiers working, fighting, and rebuilding in Afghanistan… including the guy who walks in front of the trucks - scanning for road-side bombs, a police officer who volunteered to go [...]

General Tom Middendorp and Civilian Representative Joep Wijnands share control of the TFU - Task Force Uruzgan (you’ll get used to all the acronyms, I promise). As you might imagine, the General is more or less in charge of the military side of things while the Civ Rep (that’s what they call him) is in [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
We’ve got the first in a 4-part series of Dutch-in-Afghanistan shows. This week we’ll stick with the basics and “Define the Mission” - we’ll tell you why the Dutch are there and what civilians, soldiers, and politicians think about it.
We’ll also tell you what the Dutch doing, how [...]

It’s been A Very Busy Week for us here on Curious Orange… and I’m afraid the blog has been lagging behind.
Sorry everybody!!
And, looking at my calendar, I’m afraid that it’s not going to be any better next week.
Double-sorry!!
But after that I promise things will get back to normal.
And in the mean time I’ll do my [...]

Continuing with the theme of spring… Seddiq Mossadeq sent this photo to our Dutch “Wereldnet” bloggers… who then passed it on to us - the perfect combination of where we’ve been and were we are now!
Seddiq says, “For two years I’ve grown these tulips in my garden in Kabul. Whether they could also grow in [...]

Sorry the blog has been so quiet… even though I know Michel and I both still have plenty to say about the trip (and don’t worry, you will hear it all!), I think we both needed a couple blog-free days to let it all sink in.
Hmm.  That implies that it has actually sunk in now… [...]

So. We’re back in Holland… but we’ve barely begun to share all the stories we heard while we were there.
So, while Michel and I have a little R&R and spend a little time with loved ones, here’s a quick entry to entertain you (hopefully you find it as funny as you’ll hear I did!!).
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One of [...]

home!!!
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Yep. As of the middle of the night tonight, Michel and I will be “on the road again” (too bad you can’t hear me sing as I say that).
I’m telling you this less because I’m excited to go home and more because I don’t want anyone to worry if there aren’t any entries for a [...]

Kandahar is good, don’t get me wrong. The boardwalk is interesting, there’s Tim Horton’s hot chocolate and bagels, and there are lots of Canadians (and Americans and British and French, oh my!).
But I miss TK.
I was there for less than two weeks but it was still “home”.
I miss my armoured sleeping “chalet”, I miss the [...]