Friday November 14th 2003
I get an urgent message.. Rolf is waiting for me up at the SNV building to show me how to use the satellite phone. This is news to me. I throw on some clothes, and head up. I get a brief lesson on how to work the phone. It isn’t complicated. I get a sheet of paper with some basic instructions on how to contact France Telecom if something needs to get re-set.. but that is about it. No billing info, no instruction manual, nothing but a mandate to turn it into a profitable business by December… I’m pretty much to pissed off to do anything but bitch about the SNV all day to anyone who will listen. Most people in town don’t get it.. They are gone. I mean, people were actually relieved (and believed) that the SNV weren’t really going.. it just looked like it. This is going to be an ugly ride down a steep hill. Most of the local NGO’s are toast… what was that stupid movie? Dead Man Walking?