My friend and former colleague Lars Tollemark found my blog the other day and we started talking. He are working in Kabul Afghanistan at the moment for 3 months as part of the EU Election Assessment Team. Well this is not the first time my friend does this, actually he has done it 25 times before, whereas one was assessing the election in Peru. During that time he lived in Miraflores. Kabul is a bit different and even if the work is good, there is a range of security issues in the country, he says. Lars travel with 4 lifeguards in bulletproof cars to work and wear safety vest and helmet when doing so, due to this safety issues.
But where Lars lives (in the EUs own area) he is guarded by 180 Gurkha soldiers from Nepal ”.. so if feels pretty secure afterall.” he continues.
Lars belongs to the EU Election Assesment Team and the work titile is Reginal Election Expert. They are 16 persons working in the team. ”We are working with evaluation the whole elections process, everything from election laws, campaigns, the election committee´s work e.tc.” Lars says. The final product is a report about the entire process and recommendations for future elections in Afghanistan. ”But what do you do when you are not working?” I ask Lars. ”It is kind of a hectic job so we don´t have so much free time and since we are not being able to go into town we have some movienights and I also read a lot of books. ” If your are interested in knowing more, which I am sure you are, you find the team and their work on their newly registered facebookpage. Click here.
Katarina
This is Lars Tollemark in his working outfit- 
All the photos are Lars Tollemarks own. Borrowed for this post.
Some people are amazing ! I would like to’ve read more, but that I’m not a facebook user.
Yes, well he is an amazing person that have done so much. 🙂 But this was a spontaneous thing so this is what I managed in a day 🙂 Hope your are satisfied so far.
Katarina ! – I am enjoying EVERYTHING YOU POST ! And I mean that quite literally, as I have Google translate the Swedish pages !!
haha yes 🙂 thanks. 🙂 You might enjoy more touristy things in tomorrows post then. 😉 Goodnight M-R 🙂
Goodnight, beautiful – sleep well …
From Lars Tollemark to you: ”Lasse Tollemark just now
Thank God that there is still more persons than me out there that not are a facebook user…:-) The mission actually has an website also: http://eueom.eu/eu-eat-afghanistan-2014
Nice written Katarina!
//Lars”
Tell him I said thanks very much, when next you exchange dialogue, yes …?
Or you can just answer his comment. It is in the tread 🙂
Oh, Of course !!!!
Thank God that there is still more persons than me out there that not are a facebook user…:-) The mission actually has an website also: http://eueom.eu/eu-eat-afghanistan-2014
Nice written Katarina!
//Lars
Thanks. 🙂 I´ll tell Margaret. 😉
Not only am I not a user, Lars, but I’m a semi-fanatical opponent of TwitBook. Detest both.
Thanks so much for the URL ! regards, M R
haha. TwitBook. this is a new one. Want to start a new social media with me? haha 🙂 Maybe you atleast can join insta?
Nup. Loathe them all. Haen’t got time for anything but the blog … if you realized how much time it takes me !!!
GO TO BED !!!
Haha yes. I takes we quite a bit time also so. 🙂 Mostly reading other persons blogs. that takes alot time.
Hurrah, that’s what I was looking for, what
a data! present here at this website, thanks admin of this site.