After losing my first laptop out here (in the first 2 weeks), along with all the work on my USB stick to viruses and then having my phone stolen, I thought surely my bad luck with technological devices has passed...but oh how I was wrong.
I couldn´t believe my luck when my work colleague and fellow volunteer offered to lend me his spare laptop for the duration of my stay in Rwanda. I was ecstatic. Now I would have a computer in which to write and store my reports, statistics, data, and use the Internet. After only 3 weeks of this luxury...poof! Gone.
One morning I came to work, switched on the laptop and nothing...my heart sank. It couldn´t be, not again. No one is that unlucky. Yep, I truly am. But this time I had hope. Hope that the laptop would be fixed and it would only be a minor problem, boy was I wrong. After 2 months of waiting and hope in my heart I found out the tragic news one Saturday morning.
It was after 2 weeks of eating excessively, traveling and general rest that I found out the laptop had seen it´s last facebook page and would sleep the eternal sleep...bugger! I really had thought everything would be fine, so you can imagine how crushing this all was. I had nothing to use for work, nothing absolutely nothing.
I feel slightly better about the situation now, but it wont last. I am way behind on reports etc and can´t really use any computers at the District as they all have about a million viruses.
So it´s back to writing everything on bits of paper and living in the local Internet café, praying to god that the electricity last the duration of my visit. Think of me in my hour of need.
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