Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Duke Leonard


Hi,
You can remember who sat next to you in home room? That is pretty good, because I can't remember who I sat next to last night.
Not much going on here. I just relocated from outside Mosul to Erbil. We just rented a villa in Ainkow, a Christian suburb of Erbil and transformed it into office space on the first deck and living quarters topside. l will probably be working out of here for the next couple of months and transit each week to a job site just North of Diyala Province.
Lot of new construction and investments in Erbil. You would never know you were in Iraq. Much different than Mosul or Baghdad, no car bombs, mortars or IEDs. They say Erbil is the oldest, continuously living city in the world.
Weather is running about 103 F, but it is going to get a lot hotter. In 2004, we saw the temp hit 136 F and it was rough just trying to breathe.
Duke