day 5 and 6 Herat

Dear friends,

Yesterday I stayed all day in the hotel. I made peace birds from the paper I still had from Ali and Fatima from Fariman in Iran.

I realize, the body is starting to make some little cramps, because there is no moving anymore.

Today I went to the great mosque, the park at the mosque and the bazar areas around. It was really nice. All the places in the shade are occupied by people. It seems that some people live in the park, quite some people are sleeping at around 10am there.

At the bazar I was looking, what kind of Afghanian dresses are existing, if I maid like one, maybe prices. Suddenly I came in contact with some people and Wahad, because I am working for peace, he offered me to bye a full dress for me. We found the right one pretty quick. This dress has a afghanian design on the front. All together it’s a fabric which has to be tailor-made. I will have it ready in 2 days.

After I bought some paper and pens for making more peace birds.

My neighbor, Hasan, in the hotel is a member of the Afghanistan army. He has here also his family, wife and 2 kids. He has lived in Kabul for the last 15 years and never left the city to go to the country side because of safety. To Herat he came by plane. His brother lives in Azerbaijan and now he plans to move there with his family too. He does not see a future anymore to stay in Afghanistan. (2 other brothers live in Austria) His duty is to arrange a transfer through Iran now.

Earlier this evening a police men from the afghanian inner security came to see me. He gave me some information about the roads, all not to walk….. but suggest, if I go anywhere, I should not even take a car or bus, just the plane to the main cities. I tell him that I will not stay much longer in the hotel. I am looking for a privat place to stay. The security service also wants to check the house I go. So I tell him the story, that my last host was very annoyed, that the police called him all the time, to know what I am doing. So I probarbly don’t let them know my next host.

Later the night I spoke again with Hasan. I think after the all and little what I saw until know, also speaking with my my first host Barkatulla, education seems to be a very big topic. To control all the country with army and police, yes it’s also needed, but it seems there is such a big lack of education, especially in the country side. Hasan says, the germans build such a good school in Kabul, maybe the best in the country.

I tell him, that we maid be on the change to a very peaceful world. We don’t know, but I maid take another some years or decades, or even some 100 years. Until now we made wars and need police and army’s. But then we maid not need anything of this. In the mean time we need also a peace army of people without weapons (beside the armed army, police and so on) This peace army people without weapons have to teach and meditate and pray. They have to come to each ‚proplem‘ area to lift up the energy. They have to come from all kind of wisdom places, means could be from religious background but also other wisdom sources, to support the people in that regions to find here strenght back….

Before he went, he says. You maid not know what to do now, I don’t know too.

Every night I have to deal with some tiny mosquitoes. They are very little and so hard to catch. And it feels that there bite at least 10 time. Not to bad, but…. And very difficult to catch, very….

My room is very hot. Don’t know really why. The ventilator is also not helping… When I leave the room at night it feels like 8 or 10 degrees difference to the hotel hall….

Thanks for reading

Thomas