Krasnoyarsk Winter 2008  

Sheree, Denis and I met with one of the directors prior to having our group come into the facility. This was a new site never prviously visited by GAiN. The director was somewhat upset. All of her icons on her laptop PC had vanished. She couldn’t find her “my documents” folder and was worried that everything was lost! I reassured her that it was a simple fix and that everything was still there. I looked briefly at the PC, but with all the menus being in Russian, I could not navigate to the correct location.  

As Sheree spoke with her regarding our program and presentation format, it became apparent that we would only be allowed four small groups instead of the normal six that already existed. When we broke into small groups, my team members offered to combine with another group. This gave me and my interpreter Irina the ability to look at the director’s laptop.  

We navigated to the appropriate screens with Irina’s help, made the setting changes and the icons were back on her desktop. She gave a loud hurray and thanked us. Irina and I then joined our small group.  

God continues to provide some amazing opportunities here in Krasnoyarsk. I never thought it would involve PC troubleshooting.  

Fred K.