Success and Failure

Friday, February 22, 2008 9:10 pm (East Africa Time)

I am glad to say that I accomplished a few things today. I received many papers from my new student answering three questions: what is church history, is it important, and what do you want to learn. I went into town and got some money from the ATM (the Tanzanian bank didn’t realize how much money was in my account) and bought fourteen new keyboards (cost about $175) so there computers here will be a lot more useful for the students now. However, the main purpose of today was to setup an internet connection for the whole campus. That goal was not realized. One part of the problem was that TTCL (Tanzanian Telephone Corporation Limited - a state owned company) which is going to provide the internet connection via ADSL had not completed part of the work required. Hopefully, they came this afternoon and finished the work. The other problem is that the computer fundi (fundi is Swahili for expert/technican) at Mackay House and I struggled today to get the routers that will share the signal from Mackay to Msalato. So the internet connection won’t be working until perhaps Monday. I hope to also get six power supplies for the computers here (assuming the Tanzanian bank, which is actually British, recognizes the accurate amount of money in my account) so that all of the computers will be working. Well, I have to head off to bed so that I can spend tomorrow working on developing an outline for my two classes for the semester. Thank you again for all of your prayers and support!!

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