Monday Feb 22
This is Monday's Blog
Back to Socorro School
We took our time this morning getting out the door. It was nice not to have to catch a 7am bus. Don is working on the computer in the library which is so heavily infest with spy ware and viruses that it is always 100% occupied (or working). It takes forever to be able to get anything done because the computer has to shift and wiggle and make room for anything new to operate. So far the and anti-virus program has not been successfully run on the computer. It is a hurry up and wait approach to de-bugging a computer.
We are going to take in the ruins at San Francisco today that is if I don’t box Don on the head for reading about his rhinoceros out loud. While we wait for the computer we work on our blog or study our Spanish.
I am working off-line on the baby computer on my blog. Don carried baby in because we may need to use it to do research.
Well Don has found a Mal Ware program that will run but we will need to start it as soon as the school opens tomorrow because the library computer is so messed up that it can hardly function and any program has to be jostled around to work at all. There has been some progress made but there is a long way to go before they have a computer and not a door stop!
As we left today we were exiting at the same time as one of the nuns from the school She invited us to see inside the gardens and the chappell of the convent. It was an oasis in the midst of a crowded city. There are only 4 nuns left of this order here in Guatemala. We still have a language barrier so we cannot ask as many questions as we would like. Our Spanish is improving but we have a lot more to learn. We ate dinner out because it was almost 5 by the time we set out for a bus.
Can I just tell you how very tired I am of getting on a bus that is well beyond full? In the one sit I was hunched on there were 6 (3 adults 3 sleeping children) of us and 3 in the seat across the isle. We climb over people like they were part of a jungle gym. I am going to start pushing Don to wait for the second bus we see headed our way. Maybe we can find one that has fewer people on it as well as fewer people to pick up along the way.
For those of you in snow country ---- Don't you wish you were here? There is NO snow and beautiful weather with the occasional volcano belching. Life is good.
