Cell Phones

While cell phone companies in the states brag about having less dropped calls than their compettitors, we dont' really hear much about that here. Why? Well, given time every call here is dropped. If you keep your call to about a minute, you're usually pretty safe. This is in a culture though where people often get right to business, and no one really says good bye. People have a tendency just to hang up when they feel they've accomplished something. The quality of the conversations is usually very poor and people often don't talk into the phone or talk while distracted by something else, causing low quality input to an already low quality system. Needless to say it's no wonder plans go amiss sometimes.

This is compounded by my phones inability to text message people. I get them all right, but of the 7 I've sent so far, only 1 got through, and that was a text to Eve that said "I'M JUST SEEING IF THIS WORKS" (I usually text in all capitals out of habit and laziness). I don't really know what's up and I don't want to keep texting people if they aren't going to get them. The only problem is it's only half my phone's fault. Often text messages show up late, sometimes the next day, or just disappear all together. Oh well, I'll just have to stick to calling people until I figure out what's going on and rely on that 100% reliable process (if you actually believe this, read the previous paragraph).

Well, ranting aside, I put up some more pics on facebook. There's another album at http://wisc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2310533&l=4449d&id=8626644 that is going to be just for Mawe Hai pics and here you can see the compost piles we've made so far. I also added mroe pictures to Album 2 at the side and those were mainly pics of the Jubilee Center and a couple of last night's sunset.