Internet Update

Our internet is still not fixed. They were supposed to ship the broken part replacement to Tamale yesterday and one of the missionaries was there for the day and picked it up. We had hopes that the internet might be fixed by today, but the company shipped the wrong part! Maybe it will be fixed sometime this week. We are thankful for the internet cafe, but ready to have internet access back at the school. There is only one internet cafe in the whole town and it is definitely an experience. I think the hospital compound is the only place that has wireless... so I can't even get “gato wireless” (picking up someone else's wireless connection). The first day 3 of us walked in with our laptops to a room with no empty computers. But I think Ghanaians are a little like Brazilians in that they find a “jeitinho” (a way around things) for everything. Ethernet cords appeared out of nowhere and chairs were provided as they made way for us! It only costs 1 Ghana cedi (around 75 cents) an hour... we still haven't figured out how they make money! To have internet at the school, I was told they pay $500 a month for internet access!! So if this internet cafe only charges 1 cedi an hour and can hold 10 people max, I'm not so sure how they survive. The connection is super slow (maybe that's how they can afford to charge us so little) but at least it's there... well, unless the power goes off in the whole town for a few hours like last night. The things we take for granted in the States...

P.S. I tried for an hour this afternoon to post this but was unable so I had to come back up to the internet cafe tonite... at least we got to see the town at night. :)