Well its been quite a busy few months since I last posted. Late February and early March mark the end of the dry season and the beginning of the hot season. The hot season sneaks up on you as the heat and humidity slowly build like the suspense in a well written thriller until, by [...]

I am going home from the center of town after scrounging around for some dinner on the night after the “Fête de Jeunesse” or Youth Day. Youth day usually consists of a march of all the local schools and youth organizations mid morning (replete with salutes in a style probably illegal in Germany) followed by [...]

A family reunion in Ethiopia for a family friend's wedding

Once again I should apologize for the inordinate delays in posting. 3 months is a long time, and especially with the amount of down time that I get you’d think I’d manage to keep my blog a little more current. So today on the trip back from Ndélélé, as the goat and the two sheep [...]

This is the post that I wrote right before leaving for the Kuhn’s but lost. I should finish the posting about my trip soon The electricity was on for the whole night last night. It was very exciting, not to mention weird to see my house lighted by the harsh fluorescent lights after getting used to [...]

I just lost all I wrote for this post to a stupid internet connection and i dont have time to retype it. But I just want to let you know that I am going to be out of phone range until at least the 3rd of October; maybe more depending on how bad the roads are, as I am going down [...]

Ok I owe you guys an apology, it’s been an appallingly long time since my last posting and I really don’t have any good excuses. Granted I have been busy though. Since April I have managed to get a staph infection on my face, have my house robbed, and then get malaria. When things finally [...]

Got 16,987 cattle to sell as a Fulani herder in Cameroon? Well take a deep breath cause to say 16,987 is: ujineeré sappo e jowé go’o bee téméré jowé nayi bee chappan jowé tati e jowé didi….phew! That’s literally One thousand of ten and 6 and one (16,000) with one hundred of 5 and 4 [...]

Sorry there’s been such a lull in the blogging. I’ve hardly been at my post in the past few months, dashing between Kribi in the south province for a In-Service-Training, then the back to the East for a couple days before heading up north to Garoua for some Fulfulde language training. I am wiped out [...]

Hey, I just wanted to give a quick update to let know that everything is quiet here in the East. Don’t know how much of the news is filtering to the media in the states (i’m guessing not much) but there have been some problems in the big cities here. All the volunteers in the [...]

To get anywhere in this town quickly you have to take motto taxi. They are ubiquitous around town and cost 100FCFA or $0.20 to go most anywhere except maybe the hospital. The other day I hopped on one to get to my Youth Group meeting. The meeting was near the “Places des Fêtes”, a well [...]

I’ve made it to the point now where most people can understand at least 50% of my French. Throw in my wild gesturing and some creative miming and I can start to seriously be understood around town. That doesn’t stop some sincerely amusing miscommunication, like the time I had a sinus infection a couple weeks [...]

So I’m sitting in a bar with Kate and Rachel, fellow PCV’s, and we just finished watching the Cameroon-Sudan game in the Africa Cup (Cameroon won easily…nothing like being in an African country when they when a soccer match!) and this song is being blasted that sounds like the typical Cameroonians beast except for the [...]