Internet Café

This is the Internet Café. It lives about a mile from camp. We have to bike there or walk/run if you are crazy. So every time I want to check my email, look for jobs, or Skype with my family, I bike here. There is only so much work load the internet can handle. So you can’t ask too much of it, like loading two things at once, or having more than one device hooked up to the internet at one time. Therefore, only one person uses the internet at a time.

Inside you will find a chair and table, as well as the all-important fan. It gets well over a hundred degrees in this thing. I could sit outside, the wireless will reach, but I can’t see the screen of either my Nook or laptop. There are Goal Zero batteries that are hooked to the solar panel to get charged. We run the fan on that. We can also charge our devices. Things are slow to load. I was sent a seven minute mp3 and it took forty minutes to download. I am able to Skype, which I am still amazed at. Some days are frustrating because the call keeps dropping. Other days it works so well that we can get video to work. But most of the time, it is just voice calls and I usually have to type. My family says that I sound like a robot and they can’t understand me. Facebook is also hit and miss. Some days work fine, others, I can’t even get the page to load, let alone write something. The Internet Café has taught me a life lesson in patience.

Pictures don’t take too long. Once I compress them, it takes only about five minutes to send. That is how this blog is even existing.
I can’t get into the blog site half the time, and uploading a picture to the site . . . forget about it. Instead I send all of these blogs and pictures to my administrative assistant on the main land, my sister, and she posts them for me. Let’s all take a moment and thank her for her hard work. Thank you, Kelly!