On Kindness miniseries

The adventures on my birthday were not to be the end of my travels here in Kurdistan. I've been making up for lost time here and hitchhiking to my hearts content between the governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Duhok as much as my pedagogical duties allow. What has astounded me is the normality of indiscriminate trust and hospitality. I could focus on a single day of hitchhiking, but instead I think it best to begin compile an anthology of kindness. This should also serve the secondary objective of each post being much shorter - and thus, I hope more readily digestible -  than my last post. It should be noted that this is by no means an encyclopedia of the writer's experience of Kurdish hospitality.

Part 1
Part 2

"You Westerners, we respect you. You are professional, wealthy, and efficient. But why don't you love eachother? I love my family - I even love you and I don't know you. Why don't you love people?"

- A curious Kurd