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Two delayed postings

11/5/2007 12:44:57 PM

 

            It’s been a week since I have been able to post to my blog.  It has been a very busy week and the internet has been unavailable most of that time.  Our connection to DCT and the Aden Centere has not really been working for over two weeks.  This afternoon I am going to MAF to try to get us setup with them for internet access. 

 

            I spent most of last week working on small problems since the major problem was out of my control.  Things are going pretty well.  On Saturday, I was able to finally get a stove for my home.  It ended up costing 470,000 shillings, which is about $408 (

US).  I hope to have it all wired up and useable tonight.

 

            Yesterday, I went to a village with two missionaries (Kate and Iri Mato of

New Zealand) along with five students.  We left Msalato at about 8 am and arrived at the village at about 10:30.  It was a very long two and a half hours.  The road was unpaved and very, very bumpy.  When we hit the first bump of the ride my rear went up a few inches off my seat.  It was really bumpy.  Once we pulled up to the village I saw a few hundred people standing outside of their church all waiting for us.  They were very happy to see us.  They sang to us as we got out of the car and played their drums. 

 

            I took a bunch of pictures that helped to document the amazing experience.  I will share them ASAP.

 

 

 

11/16/2007 12:48:34 PM

 

            Sorry that I haven’t been able to post an update to my blog this month.  The internet situation has gotten direr that the outlook is rather bleak.  I setup an arrangement with MAF for limited internet access for MTC, but I then learned that Msalato does not have any more money for internet. 

           

            I am going to get personal internet access via MAF within a week or so.  This will allow me to better do my job.  I have been a bit stymied by the lack of internet access because I can’t fix a number of problems here.  For one, the terminal server now runs all the time at about 10% because there is no internet connection.  I hope to fix this during early December, but I can’t get advice on how to do this or download an updated version of Edubuntu Linux until I have an internet connection.

 

            Life has been good during these past two weeks.  Busy at times, but most of the time I have been unable to fix a number of problems. 

 

 

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