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Monday, May 18, 2009

Life line to bloggersphere

That little solar charger is what's keeping me connected to the outside world. Besides the cell phone that is. With the generator situation and limited amount of plugs, this little charger is finding itself more usefull than was first anticipated. It actually stores energy so as to be there as a backup if need be. In the picture it is converting the Namibian sunshine to energy. It is 11:30 on a blue Monday and so far, the person in charge of the computers has mentioned that they will make a plan to manage them. The girls' football team will scrimage tomorrow. The theatre group will have a meeting on Thursday (first one in over a year). And the women's support group will be finally getting together this afternoon at 2. This is one hell of a blue Monday morning if intentions were the measure of success. Each one at this point has it's challenge. The computer management has never been done in this community. So there will be some growing pains. Girls' team, is to try and get soccer balls. The theatre and support groups existed but stopped because of management problems. The garden group due to last year's disappearing fund. Trust must be rebuilt (have an idea on that). The theatre group kind of petered out. Don't know why but hopefully Thursday's meeting will give the info on that situation. I like that these activities are happening early in my tour. I've found that it could take up to a year to get the mangement of a group going in the right direction. I'm lucky that at least they are willing to try or either start or restart. Hopefully in these cases the road to hell won't be paved by good intentions. With the solar charger I'll be able to get to keep blogging the updates on these activities.

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