Thursday – June 2^nd:  Today we went to a clinic in Nyamwegabira, run by the Catholic Church (See the video clip here).  The clinic is comprised of two buildings, a maternity ward and a general treatment building.  In order to run ultrasound and computer equipment, power is an obvious concern.  When we asked what the energy situation was like, the response was “Very good.”  When we really pressed to determine the definition of “very good” Sr. Helen revealed that the clinic loses power approximately two days every week.  I think for Paul, he got his first real sense of how everything is relative.  If we lose power two or three times a year, and for more than an hour or so at a time, we begin to grumble about the hardship and imposition of such unstable power.  For these people, who not many years back had no power, not having power 30% of the time is considered “very good.”  I guess also from the perspective of the many neighboring locations that are not on a grid and have no power other than battery and the occasional solar power setup, this really does constitute very good power.

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