Week 2 and the Boredom gets &^*%$@

Sure, working in the development field has the reward of knowing that if you ve done the work well then people who you set upon to train will carry on your techniques and skills thereby giving you the sense of leaving behind a lasting legacy. The work side of my IT VSO Netcorp internship is great, if not stressful at times. Daily I get bombarded by the questions of Der, can you teach me to transfer music to my mp3 player; Der, how to I close this application; Der, I can't access the server; or Der, why are my pictures downloading so slowly?

The plan here is to set up a work station/training centre for the staff at Bwindi Community Health Centre. I have already fixed up 4 laptops with a 5th on it way here tommorow. When I say fix, I mean the harddrives have been erased and only replaced with specific program designated by yours truely. Sufficit to say, I hope these laptops will form the backbone of a row of workstation computers to be used by the staff at Bwindi Hospital for their research, communications and entertainment pleasure. No Porn or Video downloads!!!! ALthought....nah!!!

Which brings me to my next point, pornography and abuse of internet rights. I just spent today researching on some microsoft program which will allow me to restrict access to certain programs and functions on these computers. Yes much of my day is spend in front of a computer. Quite unfortunate as it I am surrounded by some of the most awesome scenery in the world. I guess Churchill was right when he said Uganda to be the pearl of Africa. Or was it the Switzerland of Africa. Maybe New Zealand? In anycase, living in the hospital guest house situated beside the forest has advantages. I have made friends with some wayward monkeys around my tent (yes I live in a tent not the guesthouse) and we were getting along fine. I mean, I frequently handed out bananas and how do they repay me? They heisted an avocado from me. Grrrrr. I should remind them that in Vietnam people eat monkey brains there.

Apart from work, my off hours are quite boring. Blogging to people around the world just doesn't seem to be exciting anymore. I am little sick now, so not going for the physical activity of jogging or biking. And I don't have anyone to go with to the bar to get wasted. Hmmmm, just waiting for the next ..... to come my way. :(

OH yeah, I am still looking for a way to post my pictures on line. I am not using flickr nor facebook, and they seem to be the easiest sites available for upload. Fuck Facebook!!! and yahoo.

Well next post...