August 06, 2003
Morning at the Auberge
Spent the morning on the porch of the Auberge, waiting to connect with Gabriel in Kemon. Communications here are tricky. As Gabriel told the 2002 DtM class at MIT, Kemon has one telephone--a solar-powered radio-linked pay phone installed by the government a couple years ago, just before the last national election. The phone promptly expired about two months after the votes were cast, and no one's been out to fix it since. Fortunately, Elizabeth Eckel, a Peace Corps volunteer working on environmental education in Kemon, arrived in Parakou to collect us just after noon. The slow morning at the Auberge gave us a chance to catch up on documentation, for example cataloging our collection of DV video cassettes.
It was also an opportunity to organize the photo archive on the laptop.
We've gotten a lot of mileage out of our mountain of electronic gadgets. Once we get back to Cambridge, We'll post some of the fantastic video and audio files from the trip.
Posted by Timothy Prestero at August 6, 2003 02:37 PM
