At last! The Internet is working again, for a while at least. Seems like the router lives it owns life, and Telefonica is the company from hell. Michele and Jodi have phoned the company several times and the answer they get is that someone can come and look at it - if Jodi and Michele pay for it! That’s absurd, as Michele puts it - This would NEVER happen in the states, they would say "yes Ma'm we're sorry about that" and send a guy over right away to fix it!

Anyhow, I got green lights from my teacher regarding changing the language of this blogg to English. It's a relieve to me since in English I can write what I want and not just what I can. Which means that in Spanish I cannot write a lot of things due to that I do not know how to put it down in words as opposed to that I can explain almost anything in English. Even though I do not claim to write perfect English - at all.

Well time to put down a few words on economy. I was reading some campaign material from Engineers without borders that was placed in the corridor at the university. Did you know that to have an internet connection in Nepal you'd have to pay 278% of the average salary and the corresponding percentage in the US is 1,2%? Well neither did I. I have of course an understanding of that to lack access to communication it is a type of poverty that makes it even harder for countries in development to catch up. We "western" countries have very many of the advantages, technology, education, advanced healthcare and so on, that helps us "develop" even more while they have cheep labor and fewer rules and less legislation, on toxic pesticides and the right to form workers unions for example (I've surely left something important out, but you get my drift). That is what they can compete with and sadly enough that means low wages, hardly any workers rights, ruined environment and workers health and so on. This is nice, I can write whatever! Since it's a blogg and not an academic essay or something that requires that I cite sources. Anyhow, the things that would help up the wages and better the working conditions for people in developing countries are the same things that makes the merchandise they sell us and the services they provide us with more expensive – which means that we couldn’t afford as much of it and that is surely considered as a lowering of our living standard (since that is often measured in quantity and not necessarily in quality).

What it all boils down to is that if what I have stated above is fairly correct the economical system that we have in the world today makes it kind of impossible, not impossible - but kind of impossible, for the have nots to catch up with us if we’re not to sacrifice if not our current living standards so at least some of our future rise in living standard to give others a better chance of catching up. Now, that’s all I have to say for today, and...oh yea – I’m on it!