Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Whew! Post Office Adventures

Yesterday, after shopping at two bookstores, I took some laminated handouts about using Excel and Powerpoint and the Internet to the post office and sent them by international priority mail to Poland. The country manager there for Global Volunteers will be traveling in late January (we will miss each other in the Amsterdam airport by 48 hours)to Tanzania where she will help the Tanzania country manager to use his computer. This is his first computer.

Today the Economist magazine published that there is now 1 computer for every American. That surely doesn't mean everyone has one, because many have more than 1 computer. The number of computers in Europe is 70/100 persons. The number in Asia is 20/100 persons. No number is given for Africa.

Today, with supplies I brought home from the post office, I packed up two boxes of educational materials that are to make their way to Hungary. The primary contents are copies of a textbook for a course I was asked to teach. These go to the U.S. State Department with a special address that means they are to go the Hungarian Embassy in Budapest, and then make their way a couple kilometers more the Hungarian Fulbright Commission Office.

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