Discovery

During the past month of trips to different cities, I was observing differences between students of LUMS (University in Lahore) and NUST Business School in Islamabad where AIESEC offices are located.
I noticed a few interesting things.
Life style:

LUMS students wake up at 1pm and go to bed in the early morning. I suppose 90% of them [...]

I was remembering some silly and funny things that I did before arrival to Pakistan and during first 1-2 months of my stay.
These are some of them:
- Asking Nida before my internship if I can wear sandals with open toes in Pakistan
- Creating application for delegates at Pakistani conference. Question number 8: “Are you a [...]

www.thecitizensfoundation.org
Sanober. Asst Manager Volunteer and Alumni.
I: Hi Sanober, I am Katya, thanks for inviting me to the school. Please meet my colleagues, Arsalaan and Zhen. They were interested to visit it as well so I took them along.
Sanober: Hi, nice to meet you all. Lets go. The lecture at the school is starting at 10, [...]

This story happened half a year ago, but I remembered it right away when came to stay at Alishan’s house in Islamabad.
It was in November 2008 when Jeremy, Joan and I went for vacation around Lahore and Islamabad.
Isloo was our last point. We spent good 2 days over there and then booked tickets back to [...]

Visited Wagha ceremony yesterday. Wagha is a an area where the line between India and Pakistan was drawn in 1947.
There is a ceremony happening twice a day (morning and evening) on both sides of the border. Flag lowering ceremony. Read more about Wagha in the Wikipedia.
We arrived there at 6pm. Lots of cars and people, [...]

I am in Lahore. Went on a business trip on Saturday. As I work for not-for-profit organization, we travel on our trips by train.
I’ve traveled on Pakistani trains before, in autumn last year. The weather was dry and hot, yet it got really cold at night. Anyways, it was the first train trip, all my [...]

Ехала в машине с работы, смотрела на Пакистан из окна и вспоминала свои первые месяцы жизни в этой стране.
Как я прилетела в 5 утра и попала в 35-градусную жару, от которой нечем укрыться. Как боялась чистить зубы, помня заветные “пей только из бутылок!” Как спала по 4 часа в день, так как ужин здесь начинается [...]

Today in the morning I went to Machar colony, one of the poorest places in Karachi. My house mate Lylee from Rwanda is working for an NGO that takes care about the colony, so Lylee took Jana and myself for a visit over there. We call it “slums”.

The next few hours I spend at the [...]

Dear all,
I moved my blog to another domain.
You are all welcome to visit it at new location: http://ekaterina-khaletskaya.org
All the best,Katya