Over the past couple days, the computing groups finished two projects: setting up Diana's computer lab along with installing a network at CMA.
On Tuesday we returned to CJFL (the school that Diana works at) to continue with our installations and software updates in her lab. After a long day, Diana a joined us for dinner at one of her favorite local places, coincidentally a Chinese place. The food there was so good, everyone left with fully bellys along with leftovers.
Wednesday was our last day with Diana at CJFL. Kara, Austin, Jeremy, and Matt went to CJFL, while Scott went back to SIM Tech to assist John with the remainder of his computers. We had a few machines at CJFL to fix up along with networking them and rearranging her lab. With a prediction of only 3 computers hoping to be fixed, we beat Diana's wish fixing 13 out of the 19 computers there, even leaving her with extra ones because we didn't have enough monitors for the computers.
Diana was forever grateful for our assistance in the lab for her middle school girls to use. While the students were finishing up at CJFL, Scott when back to SIM Tech to gather all of the specs from the lab computers, along with updating any software that was needed for the students and teachers at the school.
Early on Thursday, we headed over to a school that a few of the CMA (Christian Missionary Alliance) Missionaries work with. This school was a fairly nice school for the area that it was in, finding out that it was also a part of the Compassion children program.
We got their only needing to assist with the Ethernet cord going from one building to another, so while Scott and Larry drilled holes and worked the cord through, Austin, Jeremy, and Matt were replacing all of the tiles Scott and Larry took down. Let's just say they are all thankful to be Computer Science majors (and BIS) along with kara there for moral support taking pictures of their handy work. When the work was almost done, the children were on their lunch right outside the lab we were in and like every child in Africa, they were fascinated by pictures. The children were so awesome to play with for the little time that we got to, we feel like the education majors :) Tomorrow we are revisiting our work at IMS to meet some of the students, along with going shopping with our personal tour guide Diana. A well needed break!
Love from Ouaga
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