Enjoy the Ride

This young girl is being given some basic education along with about thirty of her peers. Classes took place once a week in the open air on a straw mat.

This young girl is being given some basic education along with about thirty of her peers. Classes took place once a week in the open air on a straw mat.

It’s been a few days since I’ve blogged, and life has not been dull in the interim. It is sad to think my scholarship will come to an end in approximately two weeks, but I intend to make the most of the time remaining, and develop myself as much as possible. Even at this stage I am still meeting new people. Yesterday a rickshaw driver in whose conveyance I travelled insisted that I call him directly in future whenever I needed to go anywhere. It seems I have procured my own personal taxi service (although many of Pakistan’s roads are in such a state of disrepair that travelling this way can never be described as glamorous). Travelling by Rickshaw is fun though, for a short period you are in a confined space with a complete stranger, and it offers a wonderful opportunity to encounter the culture from another new perspective…

Edward Mortimer is spending 10 months in Pakistan studying the Urdu language. Here he recollects his first visit to the commercial capital, the megacity of Karachi.

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