Ellana's African Adventures: Frustrations

So the "little" frustrations have started to become major headaches. I haven't blogged for several days because we haven't had the internet since Sunday. I know that having the internet is truly a luxury, but when we have become accustomed to having it(and Steve has been trying to get everything wrapped up for the Duke group coming in September), not having it becomes a real pain. I FINALLY convinced Steve that we needed to buy a modem (that was about $20) that would allow us to get on when this happens, so I have been once again happily surfing the web this morning. We've also had some major leaks in our house, so we were out of water for the day on Tuesday.

The good news is that Ellana has her own room! She seems to be really be liking it as she has been sleeping really well the past few nights. The only issue has been that her baby monitor seems to be the only piece of electronics that is highly sensitive to the change in voltage and outlets. We've tried every combination of our converters and adapters, but the only thing that will work is batteries that appear to run out of juice after each night. We are trying to get a new monitor from one of the baby stores here, but no word on how long that might take. Ordinarily I wouldn't worry too much about the monitor, but I really cannot hear her from our room, and we have two other roommates in our house that we worry she might wake up in the morning.

On another positive note, I feel as though we made real headway at Imani yesterday. We've established a "system" for how the order process will work, and I also worked with one of the managers to develop a spreadsheet that determines the amount of time each order should take to complete. One of Imani's major problems has been that orders are normally several months overdue meaning that once the order is finally complete, the customer has decided that it is no longer needed. We are hoping that some of our new processes will help to eliminate this problem.