Ill try this out.. So last summer i was in Kabul, Afghanistan for vacation, kinda of. One day this war photographer i was hanging out with on the Kabul sports center teaching kids, ask me if i wanted to see the old bird market.
This meaning me and him leaving a safe area, skateboarding down the kabul river alone for about 45 in, downtown Kabul, no safetygear, no guns, nothing. Of course i said yes, we did a few of those trips around town, and they are always a blast, always something going on. So we started skating, and people honk the cars, kids running after us, and we where pretty much making a scene anyweher, No wonder, since skateboarding are pretty unknown there. anyways, after i while we reached the end of the river, and it gets divided to a left and right road. Suddenly about 100 meters away, a guy blows himself up infront of a policestation, thus killing the guards, making room for two more guys with ak-47 going in blasting of.
They killed about 13 people, then the army got them before they got to blow their bombbelts. I was standing there not knowing what to do, supercalm though strangely enough, so i tried to take some photos.. But my friend pulled me away and we went ahead to the birdmarket and shoot some pics. And under all of this i was still supercalm. We went back later to the site, and there where al lthis american soldiers screaming at us to leave.. Thats one of millions storys from my summer in Afghanistan.
On another note, i once where drinking beers with Bono at this dublinclub called lillies bordello or something for a few hours, taking about skateboarding and music.. Thats a story for another day though.
This meaning me and him leaving a safe area, skateboarding down the kabul river alone for about 45 in, downtown Kabul, no safetygear, no guns, nothing. Of course i said yes, we did a few of those trips around town, and they are always a blast, always something going on. So we started skating, and people honk the cars, kids running after us, and we where pretty much making a scene anyweher, No wonder, since skateboarding are pretty unknown there. anyways, after i while we reached the end of the river, and it gets divided to a left and right road. Suddenly about 100 meters away, a guy blows himself up infront of a policestation, thus killing the guards, making room for two more guys with ak-47 going in blasting of.
They killed about 13 people, then the army got them before they got to blow their bombbelts. I was standing there not knowing what to do, supercalm though strangely enough, so i tried to take some photos.. But my friend pulled me away and we went ahead to the birdmarket and shoot some pics. And under all of this i was still supercalm. We went back later to the site, and there where al lthis american soldiers screaming at us to leave.. Thats one of millions storys from my summer in Afghanistan.
On another note, i once where drinking beers with Bono at this dublinclub called lillies bordello or something for a few hours, taking about skateboarding and music.. Thats a story for another day though.
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