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Kutumia Internet

So here are the steps necessary to get Internet access in my town:

  1. Go to stationary store. Ask stationary mama if there’s a chance she’ll be able to let me use the Internet today.
  2. Get put off, get stalled, eventually agree on tomorrow.
  3. Return tomorrow. Follow stationary mama down the hill and a fair distance. Help her to unlock a room.
  4. Look sadly on two fairly old computers with a surprisingly fast Internet connection.
  5. Rejoice when a nice fellow offers you his laptop, which is quite new and very nice.
  6. Use the Internet!
  7. Pay an exorbitant amount of money, twice what I’ve paid anywhere else.

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