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The last two days of our work (Sunday and Monday) consisted of HP finalizing a few server settings and cloning a few hard drives, while Stefan and Michael started freeing up space in the classroom by removing the unnecessary hardware and stowing all the spare items in the closet at the back of the room, inside somewhat neatly labeled cartons. […]
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After managing to overcome the last few technical difficulties thanks to Hans-Peter and having Stefan further initiate the sisters into the “secrets” of Libreoffice, Firefox etc. over in Karen, we were ready to set off on our way back to Ruaraka on Thursday afternoon. Sr. Christiane decided to join our travel group, and this time round we were taken right […]
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The priory of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters is located in Karen, a fairly upscale suburb just west of Nairobi. It’s the central administrative center for all of their organizations in Kenya and also the place where their novices are sent for training. We were here to set up computers in the computer room in the main building, as well as […]
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Today we were off to an early start, at 6 AM to be precise. Four people – our driver Peter, Sr. Maria, Michael, Stefan – and a whole pile of computer stuff. Luckily we’d already packed everything the night before, allowing us an extra 30 minutes of sleep. Our destination was Chesongoch in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Only a few hours […]
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It’s Friday today. The students at St. Scholastica celebrated School Mass in the afternoon, along with the graduates who had received their final grades the day before. Which meant that our Friday Cinema (in the past we’d always brought a movie for the students to watch) which we’d planned to do in the cafeteria had to be canceled – but […]
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It’s meant to be Summer out here. But it’s just like Europe at the minute, the weather’s bonkers, it’s fairly cold and wet as compared to previous years. Although that’s most likely going to change soon, what with snow starting to fall north of the Equator and all – so yes, things should be back to normal quite soon. Day […]
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It was just as we’d feared – we were in Nairobi, and our luggage was somewhere else. Despite the fact that everything had started off so well. Our flight out of Zurich took off with about an hour’s delay, but made up for all the lost time on the way to Istanbul, so we touched down more or less as […]
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