Right, so it has been a bad month for keeping you informed. Part of that I can happily blame on being ever so slightly busy including a weeklong conference in Yaounde with some lovely people that will be helping guide a new program called SMS for Life to Cameroon. It could potentially greatly reduce supply chain problems of malaria meds and Peace Corps Cameroon will be helping to roll it out. The other part of this lack of communication is simply that all technology I touch this week withers and dies in my hands (this laptop, graciously lent to me by Caitlin, is falling apart as I type).
It started with Caitlin’s camera (she’s clearly overly trusting and a bit of a gambler). I smashed that thing up good and have little idea how. I’m rough on cameras though. Before going to Italy in ’07, my father bought me one that is water-proof, dust-proof, and shock-proof (the German section of the warranty literally says “dale-proof”). Then my phone broke, another type of item which I have a history of destroying. But it just powered off never to turn on again. As if I sucked the life out of it… Finally, as you’ve likely guessed, my lovely laptop is no more. It turns on still, but without a screen seems of little use. Sigh.
On the bright side my old school use of pen and paper for journaling is validated! Know what I do when a link in that system breaks? Walk to a corner store and buy a new pen. Or a notebook with Messi or some hot American singer on the front.
My God, I just resolved my other problem! Thanks, Messi!
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