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Meeting at San Diego State University with Linton Wells, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Networks and Information Integration and SDSU Professor Eric Frost,
Director, Immersive Visualization Center (Discussion involved using Department
of Defense resources to build wireless capacity in Jalalabad)
Flight out of Kabul. Look close and you will see Osama.
Great place to vacation
Getting colder
Approaching Kabul
Kabul River on the road from Jalalabad to Kabul
Students thanking Rotary at dedication ceremony
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| Rotary Clock--Jalalabad face | Rotary Clock-- San Diego face |
Steve Brown addressing dedication ceremony
Mayor Arsalai at listening to Steve Brown's talk
Nangarhar Governor speaking at Dedication Ceremony
Pakistani Rotarian Zamarud Shah at Dedication Ceremony.
Nangarhar Governor inspecting school.
Nangarhar Governor with personal body guard at Rotary clock
Fary Moini providing La Jolla Golden Triangle Club banner to RC Jalalabad
Presentation of Charter to Rotary Club of Jalalabad--co-sponsored by La Jolla
Golden Triangle Rotary Club (with Peshawar South RC)
Jalalabad Mayor Arsalai addressing Rotary Club of Jalalabad
Presentation of Paul Harris Fellowship to Mohammad Ishaq courtesy of five
Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Le Mesa, CA
Mohammad Ishaq--Charter President Rotary Club of Jalalabad
Rotary Club of Jalalabad Charter Night
A skit was performed
The Governor asked us to come by for dinner with himself and a few guests.
Lunch with the Governor
Others joined us for lunch
Elders at Meeting with Director of Information and Culture
Meeting with Nangarhar Director of Information and Culture and his staff.
Carousel at Afghan Amusement Park
Afghan Amusement Park
Billiards at Amusement Park
Afghan Amusement Park
Ring toss at Afghan amusement Park
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| La Jolla Golden Triangle Centennial Clock arrives in Jalalabad. | |
Rotary School Faculty
Afghanistan GSE team members
Sister Cities meeting before room filled up
Mayor Arsalai and son Sedig at Mayor's office.
Boys in classroom at Rotary School
Front view of Rotary School with new wing on right hand side
Full back view of Rotary school
Hew wing of Rotary school from backside
Boy waiting to go to classroom at Rotary School
Girls lined up to go into classrooms at Rotary School
Girls lined up to go into classrooms at Rotary School
Girls lined up to go into classrooms at Rotary School
Girls lined up to go into classrooms at Rotary School
Boys waiting to go to classrooms at Rotary School
Jalalabad market
Tea with Rotary school teachers
Recess
No complaints about class size
Fary with school girls
Girls about to enter school.
We found her
School boys with backpack
Tora Bora mountains behind school.
Girls lined up to go into classrooms at Rotary School
Nangarhar University Chancellor (between Fary and Steve), NU faculty chairs,
support staff, and AHF representatives who attended meeting where proposal to
establish collaborative relationship between San Diego State University and NU
was presented and approved.
"Afghan Jacuzzi" This is called something like a Sundalai. It holds eight and
you sit on pillows with an extended blanked coming from the table. Everyone's
legs go under the table and there is a heating unit under the table that warms
the legs.
Steve and Mayor Arsalai's son, Sadiq, on road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Jan. 14
Interior of new addition of Rotary School
Steve and Fary and Rotary School with new addition on right about to be painted.
Tora Bora mountain range in background.
Interior of old addition of Rotary School with interior courtyard finished.
Rotary Club of Baku, Azerbaijan. With Rotary scholar Bahar Salimova selected
from low income country, and club president and wife.