Internet Saga...

Apologies for the long gap between posts. We're having an on-going internet saga right now!

High speed internet is on our 'must have' list - dial-up is so 1990s!

Getting internet here is like most other things (a huge headache). Firstly, you have to be Iranian in order to get a phone line. Our phone line was in some unknown person's name. Interestingly even the telephone company did not have his name, so The Husband (TH) rode up an enormous phone bill calling friends abroad! TH's friend had a spare phone line at his office which he offered to give to us so that in the future, if we have any problems with the phone line, he can sort it out for us.

So eventually the Mukhabirat (the phone people) get their act together and transfer the new number to our house. Once the new line was in place. TH's friend - who is also the representative for the internet company realised that our new phone line is not ADSL compatible! (n.b. I never knew there was such a thing, but this is Iran!)

He told us that our only option was to find a neighbour with an ADSL compatible phone number and offer to swop! LOL

Eventually, we discovered that the Indian family in the basement had an internet-friendly phone number, so TH called the electrician and got him to connect our new number properly and also patch one phone socket with the neighbour's number. How he managed to explain that in Farsi I will never know! It took the poor electrician 3 trips in order to finish the work! Well, it was poor me too, as I had to clear up the mess he left behind each time too! Also, it was 3 days without internet and a phone line!

So now, we're just trying to located the owner of the neighbour's phone line so he can write us a letter allowing us to get high speed internet!

Anyways, lots of other things have also happened since I last posted (started school, started teaching, made more friends!) and hopefully I'll write about them all soon. Have some pictures to upload too... but you'll have to wait until we get high speed internet before I can post those!!