First day of class

We wandered around campus for 2 hours soaking up the sites. Tecsup is a very hands on, lab oriented facility. They have a big tall red brick wall with barbed wire on top. The campus consists 7 or 8 little buildings. The buildings are much. Concrete floors and ceilings with concrete wall supports. Pretty basic stuff. The area around Tecsup is another story. The roads are lumpy, bumpy, and compacted dirt. Dogs are everywhere. Though for such a poor city there really aren't that many homeless people or people begging. Maybe I haven't seen the really poor area but this beyond any American comprehension.

The drive to and from campus was very interesting. Sometimes you let people in, other times you cut people off. Sometimes you stop at lights and signs, other times you don't stop. You use your horn liberally. Sometimes the road is 2 lanes other times it is 5 lanes. Sometimes you turned from the middle lane. You do whatever. Though no one was getting in accidents, no one was slamming on their brakes, no accidents to speak of. It was organized chaos. As long as you kept driving, no one cared. It will definitely will take a long time to get used to. Gas here is 12+ soles. I have seen Peugeot, Renault, Citroen, and Skoda cars. They even sell natural gas at the gas station. The city goes from nice housing to bombed out Sarajevo. Almost every house, store, and building has a gate and a tall fence. Depending on how old the building is and how wealthy the owner is the walls can be electrified barbed wire to pointy metal.


Our class was 2 hours of lecture, an hour lunch, and 5 hours of messing around with getting our telephones to connect to the router. It wasn't ridiculous. We use Linux (CentOS). Ping the telephone to make sure you can connect to it. Reconfigure its settings. And call. Simple for right now. Maybe in a day or two it will be much different....