This books was about an unlikable ugly American. All she did was whine and complain about her co-workers, paying extra baggage fees on her many jaunts to Europe, and her lack "privacy" in her villa on a posh compound. She should have had to sleep on bunk in a shipping container on a US base lik...
The Kurdish people celebrated Nawroz, which was a sort of New Year/Welcome to Spring celebration, and this equaled a ten-day paid holiday at the end of March. Even before I left the United States, I thought, “It would probably be smart of me to go somewhere Western, to alleviate the inevitable cu...