Fed Up…
Category: Orangutan Care Centre & Quarantine, Orangutans, Uncategorized | Date: Nov 28 2008 | By: orangutanfoundation
To start with the fun stuff, I was over at the Care Centre today. As always I was saddened by the number of orangutans we have in captivity but I was still amused by some of their antics. Of course, I popped over to see Montana who I thought was looking particularly like King Kong.
A few of the hundreds of orangutans at the Orangutan Care Centre & Quarantine
Montana
Unfortunately, my general mood was less than cheery. I don’t wish to burden you with my whinging but I am really fed up. For the whole of this year the electricity supply here in Pangkalan Bun has been abysmal but this month has been extraordinary. Every second day we suffer a four to five hour black out. Today, we had no electricity from 9 am to 4 pm, hence my trip to the Care Centre. Throw into the mix a truly awful internet connection and you have a recipe for frustration. Last night I had to do emails on a 14kbs dial-up connection.
I promised the UK Office I would be better at writing my blog more regularly. I hope you can understand now why it is not always so easy….
No doubt things will get better so thank you for allowing me to get that off my chest!
Stephen.
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3 Responses to “Fed Up…”
Julie (Art for Gorillas), on 28 Nov 2008
Hang in there Stephen, I empathize with you. I hope the technological side of things improve. The orangutans are so beautiful. Great work you are doing.
Take care, Julie
Adam Hardy, on 29 Nov 2008
Don’t get yourself down, you’re doing a great job. If you were stuck in front of a computer all day doing a dull job for some grey corporation in London like I had to do recently, you would look on the job you have now as pure heaven - and having an 8mb broadband connection here doesn’t make it any different!
Theresa, on 11 Dec 2008
I would be frustrated too if I had to deal with those long outages. I have a friend over there that always has internet connection problems. He says..TIA…this is africa!
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