While Sunday and\nMonday was spent with the usual work like installation of the\nremaining computers and preparation of the hardware for the Kerio\nValley, we set off early on Tuesday for our trip to Chesongoch. The\n„Easy-Coach“ brought the group to Eldoret with a stopover\nin Nakuru and the equator crossing. There Sr. Judy was already\nwaiting for us with the off-road vehicle and we started on asphalted\nroads (the Chinese have already \u201cdealt with\u201d quite a long\nstretch) and then down on bumpy roads into the valley to Chesongoch.\nHere we were awaited by the Sisters Liliane, Rita Maria and Angela. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The working day in\nChesongoch consisted of changing the HDDs at school and configuring\nthe access point for the convent. We had also brought 4 notebooks and\na barebone desktop, which we installed in the adjacent hospital. All\nthis went more or less smoothly and now the Sisters can communicate\nwith the outside world in a better way. Sister Angela was\nparticularly praised by the team as she has most carefully handled\nthe computers entrusted to her. Except for a few \u2018mice\u2019 that had\ngiven up their jobs, everything went fine after installing the new\nhard drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trip to Endo on\nthe following day proved to be a tough test for Michael. Since we\nwere seven persons in the 5-seater off-road vehicle Michael and\nanother person had to sit back on the loading area on a bag of\npotatoes. The request to drive carefully in order not to damage the\ntransported hardware was heard by the driver, but obviously not\nunderstood. One must have seen the „roads“ to understand\nhow the two were shaken on the loading area. Michael couldn’t help\nbut give the driver his opinion about the promised „cautious\ndriving style“ after half the distance – and suddenly things\nwent much better. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually the\ninstallation of the access point in Endo shouldn\u2019t have been a\nproblem. But the deal was made without Safaricom (the Kenyan\nequivalent of German Telekom). The necessary SIM card for the UMTS\nstick was loaded with sufficient credit, but not enabled for Internet\ntraffic. It took numerous telephone calls to finally connect Endo to\nthe Internet. And so the group could not return to Chesongoch at 1.30\np.m. as planned, but only at 3.30 p.m. Michael also had the\nmisfortune to „bend“ the USB stick, on which Werner had\nlaboriously stored data, when manipulating the barebone. „Hopefully\nall the data can still be found on the computer in Ruaraka,“ was\nthe first thought. „Shit happens!\u201d But we were lucky, because\nmany files were found on the notebook left behind in Ruaraka; the\nrest is on hard disks at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately we could\nalso welcome Father Florian, who was visiting the convent of the\nneighbouring Benedictines. So it was possible to give him the laser\nprinter, which had been sitting in Ruaraka for one year ready to be\npicked up; now he can take it with him completely configured so that\nhe will be able to print with his notebook in Illeret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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