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We are 5 students from UPC and we are part of an association from our university called AUCOOP. This summer we are going to Sierra Leone, to Saint John of God's hospital, to bring them some help in improving their internet networks and their softwares.

Our main goals are:


→ Install an internet network in different placements of the hospital where it's much needed.

→ Install two new softwares, one in their nursing school and other in the hospital.

→ Teach the administrators in using those new installed softwares.

→ Draw a plane of all the buildings of the hospital, with a proper scale, to make easier the planning of future projects.

→ Diagnose other problems that can be solved in future trips there.


In this blog we will be posting updates of our project and our experience in Sierra Leone and in some way we will try to approach to you the culture and situation of that country and its people.


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Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Let's go to the beach

As Murphy says, we woke up at 4.30 to go to the beach and it was raining; even though we got into the car and as soon as we went there we fall sleep again.


We first went to Freetown to change money, we had breakfast at a very good place called The Crown Bakery and we arrived to the market where the capitalism won. We spent lots of money there buying some random things.

Fortunately, when we went out from the market it had already stopped raining, we continued our drive to the beach and we could barely see Freetown, the fact that everything was really different from Lunsar and all the little villages we have seen before shocked us, in addition it was really different from any other European capital that we could have ever visited. There we discovered what "local way of driving" means.



After a rollercoaster with the minibus we finally got to the beach and there really started our relaxing weekend. 

We basically switched between two activities during the whole weekend, when the rain allowed us, we swom in the sea or we rest on the beach, but when started to rain we read or played card games at the porch. But as we said before, the capitalism has always been present during the weekend, so we couldn't avoid buying some things at the local shops and of course take some photos.

It was not a problem to decide what to eat, because there were only two options, fish or chicken for lunch and the same for dinner. Hovewer, everything was very good.

Jennifer's birthday is on the 19 but Ines is leaving this sunday so we decided to pre-celebrate it and we surprised her with a little cake made by a nursing student.



Now we are back into routine and here you can see some photos of our weekend:

 



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