Life here is, all in all, pretty easy (don't tell the bosses back home), and it's surprising how Western the place is; I imagine some countries in the region, like Saudi Arabia, would be more foreign-seeming, and I can attest to the fact that Afghanistan was definitely more exotic, but given the fact that almost everyone here, in the city at any rate, speaks at least a little English, and the food is safe and pretty good, makes one's day here not too alien. However, every so often you run into what would otherwise be a familiar, every-day item, such as the 12 month calendar below, that is pretty much absolutely unlike what you'd have at home:

I wonder what bank this calendar came from...