good morning to you!
6am in Hargeisa
For one, Edna's yahoo-account got hacked (AGAIN) by some - pardon my French - idiot sitting in Nigeria. He deleted her more than 1000 contact addresses and made sure that all e-mails to Edna are being re-routed to another account he controls. Not only that but this moron also sent out e-mails in Edna's name to an undisclosed number of receipients asking for money to be sent to Western Union in London due to an emergency. Edna is furious! This causes real damage to the hospital and to herself. Just like most of us do, she too depends on the digital communication channels for just about everything.
Secondly, the providers here in Hargeisa are unfortunately keeping very low standards when it comes to spamming filters on the mail Servers. The IP-address we are being assigned from TELSOM (one of the two providers) is on several international blacklists and mails being sent out via that IP-address are being blocked. This makes it difficult for me to send out mails and impossible to send out mails with attachments. I'm receiving mails even though I'm not sure if I receive all of them. Compared to what I'm used to I'm getting very few mails.
that's the message I'm getting when sending an e-mail
And last but not least, the speed at which internet is working here has just been down to a dribble. Every page takes minutes to load, every picture I post takes forever and a day to get there. I tend to fall asleep while watching the process. So, I took some pictures of the books I'm staring at while waiting for things to happen...
In the past two day I just did not have the nerve for blogging. Also, we have not done much or gone anywhere exciting.
what a teenager likes to do best: laying on her bed listening to music
Ahhh... one thing happend last night; Salomé and I sat in the library playing memory, you know, that game where the picture-cards are face down on the table and you have to uncover the matching pair. So, we're playing that when Andala and Barakat enter the library before going to dinner at around 8pm. They don't know the game and want to join. We're explaining the rules and we're playing the first round when Hosea comes in, attracted to he library by the laughter and noise we made. He watches us finish the game and then joins in for the next round. More laughter and more noise run from the library down to the hallway. After that round we decide to have dinner. Right after dinner we're back at the table in the library playing memory when Dr. Said hears us and joins the crowd at the next possible entry point. Last but not least Mubarak, one of Hosea's students, enters the library and now we're seven people playing memory, making a lot of noise while having a great time! What fun it was - until just past 11pm when Salomé had won yet another round (she won ALL of them!!!). I trust you understand that I did not think about taking pictures and even if I would have, I did not want to leave the game to get the camera. Next time I will be prepared. :-)
our very personal set of memory cards
Other than that, there was not much going on in the past two days. Angelika is busy with tidyng up the various storage rooms in the house together with the staff. Yesterday, they re-arranged the room holding all medicine in stock. They cleaned out all the shelves, put boxes out into the hallway, labelled the shelves and put back what they had previously removed. I do hope that the staff will still find the necessary drugs when they Need it.
Flowers outside Edna's room on the little terrasse
after the rain we've had, things look quite green
this will become the new radiology unit. Inshallah!
Oh, one thing to confess we have; Salomé and I skipped the exercise yesterday morning. We needed a break. But then again, we don't have to talk about THAT all the time, don't we?
that was the day before we skipped a day...
...since I can't do the jumping stuff...
I took some pictures of that exercise :-)
In the end, who Needs ANYTHING
when there's wonderful Mango!!
Cheers!
Liana
:-)
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