I apologize in advance for the brevity and lack of editing on this post. I have a few minutes, but want to communicate my last weeks experience. We havent had electricity at our house in Bugesera for the last few weeks due to the rain that is constantly shorting the cables. We decided to hire a “local” electrician who proceeded to tell us that our house was wired wrong and that the negative was in the neutral and some other electrical talk. My question was why it had worked for all that time before, but he didnt seem to comprehend my english. He went ahead and re-wired everything only to blow out all our light bulbs and my computer just happened to be plugged in. How is that for faith. Once we got the power back up and running I realized that my computer wasnt working anymore…. Long story short we tested the charger and it seemed to be giving power (according to the electrician) so I knew that my motherboard was shot. Instantly I wanted to go home just thinking about the horrible unproductive last month I would have here without a computer on top of losing some really important data. However, after a morning at the computer shop with the help of Access Project we found it was only the charger and they repaired it for me… the best 25,000 RWF I ever spent….
P.s. This was titled Jumpsuit Electricians because I think anyone can put on a blue jumpsuit and become an electrician in a matter of minutes in this country..
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