Yesterday I was reading Urdu literature. These books were for children. How I wish I could read more difficult books than these!
With time I will be able to understand these books.
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Food
Pakistani food is much spicier than the English food
I like qorma, bhunna ghosht (meat) with naan and my favourite prepared foods are vegetables, chicken and rice. You’re not to drink water here because it upsets your stomach! Luckily, I can buy bottled water.
Edward Mortimer, January 2013
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Hot and spicy in Pakistan!
Here in Pakistan I never get cold,
actually today I am feeling a bit hot! That’s why I am drinking very clean water and eating fresh food. After every meal I wash my hands, because being healthy in this country is very important.
Edward Mortimer
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A wedding
This month I travelled up to north Thailand with friends to the Karan refugee camp for our friend’s wedding. My friend’s younger cousin’s brother was married. It was the wedding of Karan people. The wedding was in Christian religion. Mountains and rivers were the background scenario and were very beautiful. The journey took 12 hours from Mae sot to refugee camp.
We stayed 3 days in the Karan refugee camp. We received a Karan bag as a gift.
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My Scholarship in Pakistan
To this day I have never seen so many people. Karachi choked and spluttered under the weight of her traffic, pandemonium personified. Men, women and children (but mostly men) from all walks of life thronged the dusty streets, buying, selling, drinking chai; trade seemed to be happening everywhere I looked. There was something almost mediaeval about the place; a busy port city standing guard on the Arabian Sea, bringing in commodities from places too far away to mention.
Each building had its own individual charm; dilapidated shops protruded outwards into the street, electrical cables hung dangerously low above my head, makeshift washing lines.
I meandered through a labyrinthine bazar
it exclusively sold electrical appliances, and after that an entire thoroughfare dedicated to the sale of wristwatches, each vendor competing with the man next door selling exactly the same thing. I wondered how each shop got enough business to stay afloat, until I remembered that Karachi had a population approaching 20 million, making it one of the largest urban agglomerations in the World. That’s 10 million wrists needing to tell the time. The few ‘Western’ establishments in the city seemed out of place, an armed guard stood outside Pizza Hut in the hope of putting prospective customers at ease.
- Sometimes it took 5 minutes to cross a single road, due to the density and speed of oncoming cars, motorbikes, and donkeys.
- It seems even the most submissive Pakistani throws caution to the wind the moment they get behind the wheel.
