Haha. So, I was trying to be creative with the title of this blog, which I am basically writing just to mention my experience helping Carmen out with some computer problems. Today, she was talking about how she wanted to check her email and it wasn't working (I had suggested to restart the computer, thinking it may have been the internet or something; this was without looking at the computer at all, just going by what she told me). Later, at dinner, she mentioned again that her computer still wasn't working. I told her that I could take a look at it if she wanted, which she seemed to appreciate.
When I was looking at the computer and realized that everything was working fine except the keyboard, I attempted to explain that there was nothing wrong with anything except the keyboard (which I learned was called "el teclado"). She tried to show me that she couldn't sign on to her windows messenger program and kept pressing the "sign on" button. She looked very confused when she kept getting an error message, which was basically saying that you need to put in your password, which, once again, I attempted to explain in Spanish that the reason it wasn't working was because of the keyboard, because you obviously can't type in your password without a working keyboard! (...but she still didn't understand! haha)
Even though this may have been a simple problem and not the big of a deal, it felt nice to be able to help Carmen out. It also reminded me of my Grandma and when she asks me to give her computer lessons when I visit... she even said that I "know a lot about computers" (probably because I knew to restart the wifi one time that the internet wasn't working also) and asked me how I learned. While Carmen may have difficulties figuring out technology sometimes, it is clear that I struggled to try to explain the problem to her in Spanish. I guess it just goes to show you that no matter how simple you think a task may be, it may not be as simple to somebody else :)
When I was looking at the computer and realized that everything was working fine except the keyboard, I attempted to explain that there was nothing wrong with anything except the keyboard (which I learned was called "el teclado"). She tried to show me that she couldn't sign on to her windows messenger program and kept pressing the "sign on" button. She looked very confused when she kept getting an error message, which was basically saying that you need to put in your password, which, once again, I attempted to explain in Spanish that the reason it wasn't working was because of the keyboard, because you obviously can't type in your password without a working keyboard! (...but she still didn't understand! haha)
Even though this may have been a simple problem and not the big of a deal, it felt nice to be able to help Carmen out. It also reminded me of my Grandma and when she asks me to give her computer lessons when I visit... she even said that I "know a lot about computers" (probably because I knew to restart the wifi one time that the internet wasn't working also) and asked me how I learned. While Carmen may have difficulties figuring out technology sometimes, it is clear that I struggled to try to explain the problem to her in Spanish. I guess it just goes to show you that no matter how simple you think a task may be, it may not be as simple to somebody else :)
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