I started the morning off with some email, lots of German freeze dried coffee (Tchibo, it's the best and I can buy it here), and helping my colleague Deanna with some unusual computer problems. It appears that Time Warner's email service for subscribers is arbitrarily blocked in some countries. She had no trouble with it in Europe, but here it's obviously being filtered. We found a workaround for it thankfully.
After that excitement, we got on with the work of researching and networking. Our friends at Teuk Saat (that's Khmer for Clean Water) Organization met with us for lunch. We will indeed get to 96 wells this year. They were also helpful in giving perspective on the Mosquito nets from 3 years ago. Apparently they were very good quality and even with all of the expenses I had to pay out of pocket we ended up with a very competitive rate. It's possible to buy nets here in Cambodia but the quality isn't quite the same. They aren't bad, just not premium level.
For my computer classes starting Monday, I thought I would jump into the modern age. Instead of distributing paper books on Office, Photoshop, and other applications I'm going to hand out USB flash drives. They should help the future teachers with their work a lot more than dead trees.
After that excitement, we got on with the work of researching and networking. Our friends at Teuk Saat (that's Khmer for Clean Water) Organization met with us for lunch. We will indeed get to 96 wells this year. They were also helpful in giving perspective on the Mosquito nets from 3 years ago. Apparently they were very good quality and even with all of the expenses I had to pay out of pocket we ended up with a very competitive rate. It's possible to buy nets here in Cambodia but the quality isn't quite the same. They aren't bad, just not premium level.
For my computer classes starting Monday, I thought I would jump into the modern age. Instead of distributing paper books on Office, Photoshop, and other applications I'm going to hand out USB flash drives. They should help the future teachers with their work a lot more than dead trees.
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