The team\u2019s stay is\nslowly approaching its end. While Birgit mainly took care of the\nkindergarten and the library (unfortunately many books are old and\nworn-out), Werner and Michael did the last installations. The biggest\nproblem in the convent is still the Internet connection. Downloading\nthe software update of only 485 MB for Sister Lucy\u00b4s laptop took\nfive hours with the Internet breaking down repeatedly, which\ncertainly gave Michael a headache and grey hair. It was like the\npower failures at Chesongoch, but unfortunately there is no „internet\ngenerator“ to bridge the failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then Werner could \nhelp Richard to have an „aha-experience“. To restore the\nEduclient backup on two computers in the classroom was not possible \u2013\nthe keyboards didn\u2019t work. The computers were those Baerbones which\nonly go with PS2 keyboards, and of course USB keyboards were plugged\nin. We had discovered this, however, when installing the Baerbones\nfor Endo, and after a quick modification the little blue machines\nwere now working smoothly again. Richard would probably have\ndiscarded the computers as we had nearly done earlier. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IT room 1 is now\ncompletely empty and, as Richard remarked, really clean. The LAN\nlines in the server room have been removed, the hardware scrap has\nbeen disposed of and the many switches are stowed away. Next year we\nwill have to deal with IT room 2, i.e. re-route the LAN lines in\norder to reduce the number of switches as much as possible. Michael\nhad mainly seen to the tidying up and created a „to-do-list“\nfor Richard (Sr. Lucy has a copy) to organize the material and stow\nit neatly. He also managed to get one of the inkjet printers up and\nrunning. The ambitious attempt to bring the second printer to life\n(it has an identical print head) failed with the result that then\neven the first printer didn\u2019t work anymore. If only he had listened\nto Werner: „Never change a running system“. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile several\nemployees of the company that is in charge of the tablets had arrived\nin IT room 2 to install an app on the tablets \u2013 one after the\nother! Their enthusiasm will probably wear thin when the number of\ntablets rises to the target of 500 (currently there are about 200).\nWerner connected an access point to Server 2, enabling the tablets\nto access Wikipedia, Zarafa, etc. via Firefox. It worked great. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team took half a\nday off to see some of the surroundings. They had excluded a visit of\nthe Nairobi Reserve, whose entrance fees (for Muzungus = whites) are\noutrageously high – then one should rather go on a photo safari for\nseveral days. So they chose the Freedom Park (Uhuru-Gardens), which\nwas quite nice. Since there is a Hindu temple nearby they decided to\nvisit it, too. The director of the complex not only allowed the visit\nof the huge complex with attached school and hospital, which was\nfinanced by wealthy Indians, but also explained the individual rooms\nand functions. It was very clean with marble and ornaments\neverywhere. Birgit and Sister Paula were \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
given a handful of\nvarious fruit as they left the „female part of the temple“.\nOverwhelming and impressive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The farewell evening\nwas very cheerful; there were pizzas again, the sweet wine from the\nbox (the good red wine from the bottle obviously didn’t meet the\ntaste of the Sisters) and the last Tusker canned beer. The team was\nagain given presents (coffee, T-shirts, scarves) and bid farewell\nwith the request to come again next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drive to the\nairport was as stressful as usual; although they left the convent \nearly, they were immediately stuck in a traffic jam and needed a\ngood half hour for about 500 m out of town. It went on stop and go,\nbut due to the new bypass road the city centre of Nairobi can now be\navoided on the way to the airport. And so the team arrived early\nenough for check-in, was able to take the excess hand luggage through\nthe security checkpoints without any problems and then flew back to\nZurich via Dar es Salaam. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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