Our New Home

I guess for those of our group staying down here until May its a little bigger of a deal  but still this place is pretty nice! Today we moved from the Nazarene camp groud that we were staying at to a house on a outdoor restort type of place. It's very nice and relaxing. It's great for us now and will be perfect for those staying more long term. They had wifi in one building and part of our stay will be improving their network for them so we started right away working on that as it will benifit both us ( needed internet to classes and to stay and touch with everyone) as well as everyone else staying here having access to the same thing.Oh did I mention there is a pool here!

We had most of the day to explore the place a bit, relax, swim, and even get a nap it. It's been a while since I was able to do that. We alsoIn the evening they had prepared us a very good welcome meal. We had chicken fajitas with beans and rice. It tasted amazing. After dinner we had a class session and talked about the impact that smart phones has on developing nations. It raised a good question that we've all been talking about while being here. Allot of the people have T.V.s and cell phones, yet so many of them are living on dirt floors or don't have reall bathrooms. There are many different questions that this raises as well. Are we helping them in the right way by trying to help them become computer literate? Are there other things we should be doing instead? I think that in keeping them up with technology this gives them resources to fix some of those thing on their own. It give them a learning tool to find out what other peopl and othet countries are doing to solve similar issues.  With the Internet they can get information about anything they need. From construction issues to medical issues there are ideas and solutions to problems out there ever where on the internet. As we continue out time here I hope to see my thought supported by how people use their technology and in the reasons why they have it. If you have any thoughts or comments just leave them below as I would love to hear what other people think about this.

Peace out,
Josh Aleshire