Tirin Kot Part 1

This is the first of what will likely be a series of posts about my five days in Tirin Kot (the capital of Uruzgan Province) this week. Given that I'm still there, this post will be short; those that follow will be longer. For the moment, though, I leave you with a list of what I have not seen in my almost 4 days here so far (remember, this is a provincial capital we're talking about):

1. A restaurant
2. A bank
3. A woman
4. People on the streets after 6:00pm
5. A book
6. A person not wearing a shalwar kameez
7. A streetlight (these do exist in Kabul, so I'm not setting my expectations *too* high)
8. Any evidence that there is municipal electricity (when the generator is turned off, the power immediately goes out)
9. Come to think of it, there don't appear to be any municipal services whatsoever. More on that in part 2...