Photos

Bad internet always puts me off blogging, but here are a few recent photos...



Opening home-made cards on my birthday.





Family Fun Day with missionary friends.





School Camp.



Back to (home) school on a rather wet rainy season morning!

Internet

For the last two weeks we've hardly had any internet access at home at
all. And I mean some days we literally haven't been able to connect at
all, others we've had a connection for just a few minutes.

We don't use the internet much for entertainment as our connection is
way too slow. We use it mainly for the kids' schoolwork, to save our
translation work to a remote server and for emails. I use it on my phone
for whatsapp and facebook, and I enjoy getting world news via an app,
but even before these particular problems our connection wasn't good
enough for this to work well.

It is frustrating not to be able to decide when we will use the internet
at home, and of course the connection always seems to start working at
just the most inconvenient moments. Or if we choose to, we can go to
Kandi, find a quiet spot and sit sweating in the car while we try to do
what we need to do. It's only ten minutes' drive, but it's really not
that convenient either, and we certainly can't plan to do that once the
school year starts again and the kids need to work on-line for certain
subjects.

We have heard that the problems are due to the equipment being renewed
in Kandi, and certainly the 3G connection in Kandi is already working
better than it has done for ages. But the 3G doesn't reach as far as us,
and we just don't know for certain that they're going to renew the 2G
network as well.

We would certainly appreciate prayer for this!!

Added note: Since I wrote this the internet is working better on my
phone, but not yet on our computers (hence my not having being able to
post this yet!).