I had been feeling increasingly frustrated with having a blog and never updating it! I knew when I got back to Nampula I wouldn’t have Internet for a little while, but I didn’t anticipate having a lot of urgent things to deal with and therefore a desperate need for Internet! I managed to go and bother my friends at the New Tribes Missions office twice, and also to use Dr Woodrow’s Internet a few times, but I hated having to nag him to move away from his computer each time. And there is nothing worse than getting home and discovering that you forgot something you had wanted to do while online! However, last year I had looked into a company called Intra, who have a mobile modem like Iburst in SA, and after considering my options I decided to sign up with them, and had my connection by late afternoon this past Monday. Yesterday afternoon when I got home, around 15h00, there was no connection, but I think it’s connected with a big problem the whole city is having. It has something to do with the telephone company who are in charge of, if that’s the word, all the fibre-optics that the banks and all the different Internet companies rely on, and recently it has happened quite often thaqt nobody has Internet or can get cash from the ATMs, sometimes for days on end. This morning I had Internet again, which I was very happy about!
When I stop wasting time online 
, I need to start printing envelopes for sending out brochures for this year’s Fiel conference. It feels so odd to be doing it in the middle of February, but since the Conference is 6 weeks earlier than usual, it definitely needs to be done as soon as possible. I can’t work at the Woodrows’ anyway, since my laptop there, which is on its last legs anyway, is being fixed (hopefully). Hopefully it will be a profitable few days at home, and in the meantime I have a lot of blogs, news etc. to catch up on.
