Visit and training of Sr. Rita in Teningen/Germany

We invited Sr. Rita, IT-student, from Kenia to learn about Linux, our client-server-system and computers in general. She run through our course for 14 days from 5th December to 19th December 2023.

  • First we checked, what was still present at Sr. Rita form the last training. (more…)

Visit of the Sisters in Freiburg – following Days

The following days, Michael and the sisters visited Konstanz, Beuron, the island of flowers Mainau and made a tracking tour to Ebenalb.

 

Visit of the Sisters in Freiburg – Day 3

On Monday we made a boat-trip at the Titisee and visited the Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen.

 

At aftrnoon we brought the sister to Michael in Konstanz.

 

 

Visit of the Sisters in Freiburg – Day 2

On Sunday we picked the sister up at the Günterstal convent and drove to Strassburg.

 

There we took a tourist-boat-trip and took some meal at Petite France.

 

 

Visit of the Sisters in Freiburg – Day 1

On Saturday the 10th of Jun, 16:45 Uhr the Sisters Lucy und Serva arrived at Bahnhof Freiburg an.

Then Werner made a guided tour with us of Freiburg.

At the Münsterplatz we enjoyed an ice at the balcony of the ice-café.

 

 

participate

  • We continue to support the installations of clients and server. The current base is debian 11 bullseye.
  • Corona prevented for long out meetings. only the core group continued the work on the installations, which were brought to Kenia in March 2023.
  • We stay in touch by email, homepage and random meetings.
  • The most of us live around Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, Questions to technics and persons are welcome

 

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Home, sweet home

The last days after return were spent with administrative work and repairs on some „stubborn“ computers. And Michael Junior continued the training with Sr Rita, Michael Senior revised the documentations while Werner took care of the servers.

We shared our impressions of our stay in Chesongoch with Sr Rosa, who, together with Sr Ruth paid a visit to the Ruaraka convent to thank us, overwhelmed us with gifts and bid us farewell. “How does all this fits into our luggage?” was the concern, because not only we, but also Ecki and HP (as project initiator still well remembered here) were given gifts.

In the evening we saw the table in the convent being set for the farewell party. Again a smore gifts were presented, accompanied by singing, speeches of thanks and lots of hugs. The sky was crying, as it began to rain until next day of departure, accompanied with a thunderstorm – we had never experienced thunderstorms here before.

Then it was time to pack, with each suitcase been optimally loaded, followed by the obligatory group photo, and preparation of laptops and iPads for handover. To ensure the sustainability of the system, measures have to be taken there to reduce dust in the classroom (which was done in an exemplary way in Chesongoch). Hopefully this will be better followed in the future

The two laptops that Werner had brought for use during the stay were handed over to Srs Rita and Veradiana; the spare servers and clients were taken into custody by Sr Lucy. After a quick dinner, we went to Terminal 1 via the newly built “Expressway”, which cuts the travel time from the convent to the airport in half. A few last hugs and then we went through three! security checkpoints to the boarding gate. LH 591 took off on time and arrived in Frankfurt even a bit earlier than scheduled. Breakfast at McDonalds, car ride to Teningen, Kenzingen and Konstanz concluded this year’s “mission” to Kenya.