We found an ant infestation in one of the donated laptops. Don’t they know electricity and insects don’t mix? Speaking of electricity, it was spotty. Not only did power drop (a LOT), but the power supplies on hand were really old, mostly broken an relatively dangerous. Most had loose internal connections, and required fidgeting with the plug before they “worked”. To hook up a US plug to this type of socket, we were told to stick a key into the negative slot to disengage the plastic guard, then we could put our plugs in. I can’t tell you how many times we did this. I was glad each socket had an on/off switch.

When the power went out, Roberto fired up the generator for us. I thought it was interesting that he just stuck the bare wires from the generator right into a socket. Wow.

Oh, and I bought a copy of Office XP from the computer store in town. It cost me UGS 15,000. Like $8 US. This is what he handed me. With a completely straight face..