it's been a while since my last post because we didn't have internet for the past 2 weeks. being operations intern, i had the privilege of dealing with the internet company multiple multiple times. so frustrating! nothing, absolutely nothing, is done efficiently here. and everything is made 100 times more difficult than necessary. many phone calls and trips to the office of iconnect, and nothing got fixed. it's a little tough to work and run an organization without internet ha. thankfully, 2 weeks later, we now have internet.
to add to that, we ran out of energy for our office on monday (energy is prepaid). usually this isn't a big deal because there is a zesco (energy) story just down the road. so i hopped in the car and went to buy some more zesco. of course, though, their system was down. for the entire day. so no power for the day. the next day i went to buy it and it's still down. of course. so we have to drive to 1 of 2 locations in lusaka that has zesco we can buy.
also, we have a gas account i set up a few weeks ago with one of the bp stations close to us for filling up our cars. but of course, the bp all of a sudden is going under/being bought up, so they have no petrol. we would hear one day here and there that they had petrol, so we would quickly try to go fill up. but of course, by the time we got there they were usually out. awesome. so we had to set up a new account.
oh the joys of living in africa. haha
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