Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Shandia-Community Telephone

In Shandia there is one community phone installed in 2003 when President Gilmar Guittierez (from the area) was briefly in power. Calls can be received from anywhere and you can phone out with a calling card. Because the phone is communal, answering it is a very public event. When the phone rings there is often a rush to answer it and the "winner" then gets to go yelling the name of the person who has received the call. On some occasions when I expected a call I had to out sprint people to get there first.

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