Monthly Archives: December 2021

Trinidad Dec 30 – January 4, 2022 Capital: Port-of-Spain Currency: Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD). Credit cards are accepted at many stores. ATMs work well. Exchange Rates (xe.com Dec 29, 2021): 1CAD$ = 5.30TTD; 1US$ = 6.77TTD; 1 E = 7.68 Speak. English … Continue reading →

Costa Rica’s pristine ‘Shark Island’ now a massive marine reserve Three times the size of the country’s mainland, the reserve’s abundance of sharks, whales, turtles, and other marine life has been described as an “underwater Jurassic Park.” A whitetip reef … Continue reading →

Bangladesh is a country state in Southern Asia (converging with Southeast Asia), bordering the Bay of Bengal to the South, almost entirely encircled by India to the West, North and East, and Myanmar to the Southeast. Although off the beaten path by virtually any measurement, Bangladesh is populated by friendly … Continue reading →

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Peshawar, Chitral, Bannu, Swat, Swabi) Dec 20-21, 2021 Includes the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas) (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province) Primarily Pashtun, the area is very rugged and mountainous yet extremely hospitable. Peshawar- Capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it … Continue reading →

Islamabad Capital Area Dec 22-23, 2021 ISLAMABAD The capital city of Pakistan, ninth-largest city in Pakistan, and the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area is the country’s fourth-largest with a population of about 3.1 million. Built as a planned city in the 1960s to replace Karachi as Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad is noted for its high standards of … Continue reading →

PUNJAB NORTH (Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad) Dec 21-28, 2021 The most populous and agriculturally fertile region in the country and home to many historical shrines and mosques Lahore – City of the Mughals, bustling and a very historical city that shouldn’t be missed. … Continue reading →

EMOTIONS Executive function in AS has characteristics of being disinhibited and impulsive, with a relative lack of insight. This can affect the cognitive control of emotions. There is a tendency to react to emotional cues without thinking. A fast and … Continue reading →

THEORY OF MIND – “EMPATHY” ToM is the ability to recognize and understand thoughts, beliefs, desires, and intentions of other people to make sense of their behaviour and predict what they are going to do next – ie “mind-reading” or … Continue reading →

SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING and FRIENDSHIP The nature of these children is revealed most clearly in their behaviour towards other people. Their behaviour in the social group is the clearest sign of their disorder. – Hans Asperger (1944) SOLITUDE In solitude, the … Continue reading →

PUNJAB SOUTH (Multan, Bahawalpur, Khanewal) Dec 18,19, 2021 After Succur, we finally were on the major freeway on this side of Pakistan, a great 6-lane divided highway with virtually no traffic called the Sukkur-Multan Motorway. The major crop has become sugar … Continue reading →