Yesterday my replacement computer arrived in Kankan and I am super delighted. It's so giant (compare to my netbook) and the screen is so clean and shiny and crisp. I keep feeling like my eyes are over-focusing.
Getting a new computer in Guinea can be a bit of a challenge - the postal system isn't reliable enough to ship anything of value, and you can't buy them in Kankan. I hear that you can buy computers in Conakry, but they're exorbitantly priced, on account (I assume) of the limited demand and expense of bringing them in to the country.
As it happened, my neighbor's friend was planning on coming to visit Guinea, and she very kindly offered to bring stuff with her. So, my mom sent her the computer (and I had a few things from Amazon sent to her house) and she packed it all up and brought it with her.
This morning I gazed at my impossibly clean computer while I enjoyed a lovely breakfast of leftover cinnamon rolls (we cooked a lot this weekend) and Malarone, and vowed to be more careful with this one. I've downloaded Skype and am starting to get the hang of Windows 8 (which has many new features, some of them completely infuriating) and am happy to one again have a portable laptop.
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