I hate being late. Yet all this week has been marred by about a 2-5 minute lag (both figuratively and literally). For those of you who imagine that punctuality is not important in Kurdistan.... and all Westerners living in Kurdistan are ferried between places (that have been previously approved by a security team) in a bulletproof SUV driven by a driver/security guard with a pistol under his seat, think again. Lowly teachers are transported to and from work in a Korean-made mini-bus on schedule so regular that a 15 second delay might have you running after the bus waving wildly hoping to catch the driver's rearview mirror glance. The pictures in this series is a photographic documentary of what happens when you miss the bus.
1. You walk to the front gate, remembering to greet whoever is seated there.If you do this, you are more likely to have a plastic seat provided for your waiting comfort at times when there are no taxis.
2. As it is morning, all the drivers who regularly drive Naz City residents will be waiting out front. You will tell them where you want to go.
3. After a brief discussion, the drivers will decide which of them gets to take you and you be ushered into a tan (not orange and white) taxi (which are now differenciated from other tan Kurdistan taxis by the Naz City logo on the side).
4. You pay the driver either 3 or 4 thousand dinar and walk through the gate into the parking lot just as the other staff are getting of the bus (and feeling stupid as everybody filing into the uni knows that you were not disciplined enough to get ready just 2 minutes earlier).
1. You walk to the front gate, remembering to greet whoever is seated there.If you do this, you are more likely to have a plastic seat provided for your waiting comfort at times when there are no taxis.
2. As it is morning, all the drivers who regularly drive Naz City residents will be waiting out front. You will tell them where you want to go. 
3. After a brief discussion, the drivers will decide which of them gets to take you and you be ushered into a tan (not orange and white) taxi (which are now differenciated from other tan Kurdistan taxis by the Naz City logo on the side). 
4. You pay the driver either 3 or 4 thousand dinar and walk through the gate into the parking lot just as the other staff are getting of the bus (and feeling stupid as everybody filing into the uni knows that you were not disciplined enough to get ready just 2 minutes earlier). 
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