So today Simon and I walked up to school for 8:30 looking forward to hearing the children sing the national anthem and the school was silent when we arrived. It turns out Sister G needed more time to teach and school now starts at 8 am.
Sister showed us to a secure room in one of the convent buildings where 30 boxes, each with a computer monitor in them, and 30 boxes, each with a CPU, keyboard, mouse, and cables, were stacked. The computers came from Malone College or University in Ireland via Camara Technologies.
We started opening boxes and hooking monitors, keyboards and a mouse to a CPU and by noon we had assembled 9 functioning workstations. We ran into a surprise and a glitch early on. The surprise: the computers were all loaded with Edubuntu operating systems! The glitch: they required a login and password. While I was imagining calling Ireland or rebooting each of the computers with the Edubuntu boot disk I had brought with me, Sister G sorted it out with a quick phone call to I'm not sure who. Login and password? Camara.
Sister G kindly drove us home at noon as a half day is about all Simon and I can manage.
We have been without running water since yesterday morning and the news suggests if there is no rain soon, we may not have it again before we leave. Julliet bought 4 or 5 jerry cans of water to replenish our supply for cooking and washing up and Simon and I bought large containers of drinking water (which we will filter just in case!) and a small tub to use for sink baths in the interim. Power was also out during the night and part of the day. Up until now it has been fairly reliable.
42 boxes to go!
Rose
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