I am searching for a home in Kabul :)

Having thought about this the entire morning, I think I am going to stay with a family I used to sponsor when I was 15-18yrs. I am not sure yet or for how long. They live just across Cinema Mili behind a row of shops at the foot of a mountain. It costs about US2 to get from there to Wazir Akbar Khan by local taxi. The family has been asking me for a long time to stay with them and I am very close to the daughters. I call the mother Modar too.  

I think they are really going to be shocked to see me. Normally I just call them up and say ‘I am coming down. Am 15minutes away from your home. Can I come?’ Modar-jan (her real name is Odella) will rush to cook me my favourite boloni (and extra for me to take back) in time for dinner. They know I come every year though they are not very sure when. So they will just await my call and exasperated exciting scream ‘I am here. Can I come?’. I think this year they’ll be shocked to see me arrive with an entire suitcase. ‘I am here. Can I stay?’

They live in a 3 storey mud house and they even have a balcony; you know the ones where you see Afghan women flanking and dusting carpets on. Yes! The balcony top is beautiful because right behind it is the entire vertical length of the mountain with dots of Afghan mudhouses with their pastel framed windows. There are so many children running around the area as well. Living in the mountain might be interesting actually. They get electricity far longer hours than we do I hear. Is that a rumour? There is a feaces drain just in front their house which means the smell isn’t always pleasant and a number of mush (mice) stay with them.  But I’ll just have to change the meaning I attribute to that sort of living condition, I guess. I am looking forward to that challenge haha. Will be interesting to live the local mountain life. But I shudder to think what it would be like in the winter. Maybe I’ll plan a trip to Singapore then :)

More stories about how I met Sunbol and her family through JAHAN : http://venusnat.webs.com/meetingmysponsoredchild.htm

I will let you know how it goes. Ah, this is all so frightening and new and exciting and challenging. I’ve always prayed to Allah to make me work really hard to get what I desire and never give me anything tied up neatly in red ribbons (I like red ribbons). I know this will all make me a stronger person and it will be a good experience towards attaining ULTIMATE FREEDOM; and that is the freedom from comfort, attachment and security.

Love with all my heart,