Another full day in Lendem. I hadn't figured out where we were in Guinea-Bissau in relation to the capital (other than 63 km) and discovered yesterday that it's because mapping systems know Lendem as Lendene. So I found a map to show where I am.
It's a very small and quiet place but it does seem to offer some ease of access for the various national translators to come for work and training. The OneStory actually starts Monday. Yesterday through tomorrow is actually training for 4 translation project groups.
One of the guys here at the center walked up with a fruit I had never seen before. Do you imagine what it is?
It's the fruit of a cashew tree. The fruit was very sweet and juicy somewhat acidic but, on the variety pictured here, you would not eat the nut (on top of the fruit). I discovered that it came from a very large tree on the property, closer to the road.
I finished getting the new wireless system installed in the building that is half the main office and half the director's home. He stopped by later in the afternoon and said how happy he was with the strong signal. At this point we have wireless to all the center's buildings. I've While I got up on the roof and removed the older, weaker wireless equipment and ran network cable from the network room to the location for the new outside wireless system, I have not finished mounting it high on the peak nor installed lightning protection equipment. (Africa is known for it's severe, severe lightning storms.)
The director informed Corey and me that, because of some serious political unrest because of probable presidential voting fraud, we will not be staying in Bissau at night from Monday through Friday. Instead we will leave Lendem at 7 am and get back here after 8 am. He says that the worst problems and conflicts would only happen in the capital and only after sunset. Knowing the director, a Brazilian so everything takes longer, we will get back even later. That is a concern since we have so much work to do in Bissau.
Anyways, there doesn't seem to be a chance to wind down early around here. Corey had some new instrumentation to install on the solar power/battery system to collect data and I helped and also acted as a safety watch while he worked on the raw power system. We finished that at 11 pm and talked over the plan for tomorrow.
It's just getting to midnight now. Corey's taking his shower first.
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| The marker is Lendem. Click for a larger view. |
It's a very small and quiet place but it does seem to offer some ease of access for the various national translators to come for work and training. The OneStory actually starts Monday. Yesterday through tomorrow is actually training for 4 translation project groups.
One of the guys here at the center walked up with a fruit I had never seen before. Do you imagine what it is?
It's the fruit of a cashew tree. The fruit was very sweet and juicy somewhat acidic but, on the variety pictured here, you would not eat the nut (on top of the fruit). I discovered that it came from a very large tree on the property, closer to the road.
I finished getting the new wireless system installed in the building that is half the main office and half the director's home. He stopped by later in the afternoon and said how happy he was with the strong signal. At this point we have wireless to all the center's buildings. I've While I got up on the roof and removed the older, weaker wireless equipment and ran network cable from the network room to the location for the new outside wireless system, I have not finished mounting it high on the peak nor installed lightning protection equipment. (Africa is known for it's severe, severe lightning storms.)
The director informed Corey and me that, because of some serious political unrest because of probable presidential voting fraud, we will not be staying in Bissau at night from Monday through Friday. Instead we will leave Lendem at 7 am and get back here after 8 am. He says that the worst problems and conflicts would only happen in the capital and only after sunset. Knowing the director, a Brazilian so everything takes longer, we will get back even later. That is a concern since we have so much work to do in Bissau.
Anyways, there doesn't seem to be a chance to wind down early around here. Corey had some new instrumentation to install on the solar power/battery system to collect data and I helped and also acted as a safety watch while he worked on the raw power system. We finished that at 11 pm and talked over the plan for tomorrow.
It's just getting to midnight now. Corey's taking his shower first.
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