As we, the computing group inherited more and more computers in Apartment 4 at the SIM guest house, it is apparent that our "stupid french outlets" comments are correct. Nothing in Burkina is grounded, basically promising a shock to your hand as soon as you plug in a power cord for a computer. It doesn't hurt you, just startles you, and once you get startled enough, it gets annoying. Tip of the day: wear shoes when you plug a power cord into an outlet in Burkina Faso.
In other news, we revisited our 6 French netbooks we set up for IMS in the beginning of our trip. Scott ventured out with Pauline earlier in the morning (being gracious enough to let the students sleep in :) ) to finish the rest of the networking, along with caging the router. Pauline drove back out to SIM to pick up the rest of us so we could meet the students studying at IMS, along with sitting in the class which our dear friend John was teaching. At the end of the class, Joel Gray an SIM missionary told the students how we had set up the netbooks for them in order to learn, along with us introducing ourselves in our french skills. All of the students were endlessly grateful for our work at their school, most saying 'Thank you' in English cause they knew we didn't know french!
Diana then joined us for our afternoon, taking us to a local crafts street for some souveneir shopping. It seemed though as soon as the white people entered the street, they all came swarming. We are always told to barter for our items, most of the time leading to either a good deal or overwhelming purchase. Though it was stressful, we enjoyed our shopping trip with Diana and her french speaking assistance.
This evening we finally got to field test our Acer projector we fixed for someone here. Slowly our viewing of movies has gotten more and more advanced, finally upgrading to a home theatre with a projector... :)
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