Moving the Computer Lab

It was decided long before I came to Kandahar that the computer lab was in the wrong place and instead it should be located across the deck one building over. It was rough going, but we did it.

View from my old desk.

As can be seen in the picture above, the computer booths in the Ed. Center are very large/ The booths were made out of lots of wood and were made to last. Whoever built these things decided to build them nailed and screwed together every which way so the only way to move them was to strip a lot of wood off and really rip them apart. Here are the highlights (pictures were taken on the Ed. Center's camera by Dee, the education services officer - pretty sure the flash was turned off so it's sorta blurry).

So first we unplugged everything and got it out of there. Then it looked like this:

But as you can see, there are still wires connected.

Those wires were built into the computer desks.So we got to the nitty gritty. There were a lot of jokes made about Jews doing manual labor... to be fair, I started it.

Assessing the situation.

Into action.

Christian takes a break.

Paul steps in.

No no no! This one goes here, that one goes there.

Meanwhile, decisions were being made about how to wire the new computer lab.

"I say we wire it over there"

"No! Up there!"

"Over there!"

While they were arguing, Brandan climbed on top of the roof of the deck.

Basically, he's spiderman.

Mission Accomplished.

While all this was going on I was still trying to get the wire's out from the desks.

Knees starting to hurt.

Finally it was all ready for the hardest part - actually moving them:

Starting to come together.

Dee and Major Wishart in the new computer lab, sans computers.

Now it's been nearly 2 weeks in the new computer lab and the new location has got its perks and drawbacks. Here's the new view from my work station:

The end.