I was dumbfounded..

My Afghani classmates asked me twice on 2 different occasions, "Do you know Afghanistan?"

My reply always been "Yes... Yes of course...", but I always have that worried look on my face.. Thinking, what else should I say? There was this one time this friend of theirs asked me, "What do you think of Afghanistan?" Like how I always avoid answering, I said "It's a country. That's what I think it is".

May seem rude but I really don't know where to start or end. More so, I want to ask them what is the situation like over there, but with the little Italian they and I speak, it's hard, they hardly can speak English too.

I was telling my Swedish classmate this, and she said, 'just said you don't know what is Afghanistan, easier isn't it?'

Yes, that would have been the easiest way out. Atleast that's what the Japs did. They asked what/where is Afghanistan.