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Day 4: Engineering Guatemalan-Style and Antigua
by Saint on Thursday May 11, @01:31PM
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| I am here in an Internet Cafe with my Spanish Instructor Herbert Leopold who is here beside me learning how to use hotmail. This week my wife and I are taking Spanish classes with Tecun Uman, one of the many language schools here in Antigua. Antigua is visited by people from all over the world who come here for its colonial charm and its Spanish language schools. We spend four hours each morning with an individual Spanish instructor. The afternoon is free, but I have been stopping by Hermano Pedro hospital to arrange network cabling.
The network topology is as follows: The server and one client will be in the diagnostic clinic, with three more clients in the anesthesia, surgery and supply area respectively. We are using a star topology because we have only one 8 port Link-Sys router, so some of the wires will be duplicated.
We quickly decided that by myself the job would be too large to run the network cable, so Faith in Practice hired a local electrical engineer familiar with Hermano Pedro Hospital and three assistants. We planned the run around conduits that already existed in the hospital. The last meters are going to be the most difficult. With the planning done, they went to work and I will be checking on their progress for the rest of the week.
Meanwhile, we have been touring Antigua, which has the historical advantage or disadvantage of having frequent earthquakes. The city was abandoned as the capital in the 1770s and was moved to Guatemala City. The ruins of the city were relatively untouched since that time and with restorations and laws passed to protect its colonial character, the city has a colonial feel to it that is unique. The climate is agreeable and the view of the nearby volcanoes are spectacular which is probably why the capital remained in Antigua for approximately 200 years despite earthquakes and floods.
Guatemala is known for its native crafts, from beautiful hand-woven cloth to carved figures. Street vendors offer a wide variety of goods and unfortunately know my wife by name. |
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