We were supposed to head into Afghanistan today but we are delayed. We landed very early on Tuesday 8/29 at Manas air base in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. We are south of Kazakhstan and north of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. We're about 2000 feet about sea level in a very dry area. We can barely see snow capped mountains to the south. A local airman mentioned that they had to live in tents here a year ago so it is a new base under development.
We're 10 hours ahead of EDT so while I write this in the early PM, y'all are sound asleep. I would be 11 hours ahead but for daylight time, so we are just about 1/2 way around the world. Although this is a very safe area with no bad stuff going on in any part of the country, we are now on the deployed clock as of 8/29 so I now have 364 days to go.
Today's Dari is counting to 10: yak, doo, sey, chard, panj, shash, haft, hasht, no, dah. So, if I think something is obvious, I could say nine-ten, i.e., no-dah! That's a joke!
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I see the similarity to Urdu: ik, doe, theen, char, pontch, che, sodth, art, no, thus. (I remember that, how to sing "Jesus Loves Me", and that tickle was "good-goodie".) Not bad for 26 years of brain-cell rusting.
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