Do you think I would ever run out of excuses for why I don’t post on my blog?  This time I blame technology and my USB key.  My office now has a computer, a computer from 10 years ago that runs windows 2000, but a computer.  So I was very excited to actually sit in my office [...]

Perhaps it is a reflection on my life here that I still mark time by American events. Not that I’m not busy and doing work here, but there is no obvious, and widely known event or season I could title a blog with. Thus even though I’ve seen about 3 football games this season, and [...]

Yes the reports of my disappearance have been greatly exaggerated.  I’m currently in America which has been great, but it has surprised me how many people actually read my blog.  So maybe i should post more.  This experience has been eye opening for my time in village but I have also learned a lot seeing the other amazing [...]

So a lot of note has gone on recently in Makak.  I successfully completed my first big project, but the big news is that the father of the family I live with, “Grande-pere” died suddenly on Saturday.  For those that don’t know I live in a small house in a compound of houses, and the [...]

Hello everyone!  I’m close to my one year anniversary in Cameroon.  Which I guess is a time of celebration but for me I have a big educational event coming up so maybe the week after I’ll celebrate. So since I last wrote I went to France to meet up with my parents.  Was a good time [...]

Usually it is quite difficult for me to write a blog.  I am used to my everyday life here and village and often don’t realize what is important or interesting to the outside.  Also by the time I get to a computer I forget what I was going to write.  That is not the case [...]

I have been away from my post for a good week and a half now.  I’ve been doing work, just not where i’m assigned to do work.  I was invited to help with a camp that a fellow health volunteer (Ali) put on for the youth of her community.  But this volunteer is in the [...]

May 27, 2008   I have come to really enjoy Cameroonian food, even though when I first arrived it all would have disgusted me.  I now look forward to certain dishes and can eat everything as fast as other Cameroonians.  But eating with a family does give me my share of surprises.  When I’m called to dinner [...]

First I would like to thank everyone for their messages and birthday wishes.  They were very nice and I will respond eventually. I realize how terrible I have been about posting blogs and I could blame it on many reasons but its really that I’m just lazy, and when I do write I constantly rewrite myself.  But [...]

I have now been at my post for over two months.  I feel good and bad about my situation in post.  My French keeps improving, though I’m still not where I need to be.  I am building relationships in the community and feeling more comfortable working and speaking with the community by myself.  I’m starting [...]

I am currently in Yaounde, the capital city. Which means lots of other Peace Corps volunteers, everything is more expensive and a lot of random white people. It is fun but then becomes old after awhile and I look forward to returning to the calm of post. I come into Yaounde about once a month [...]

1/13/08-Actual day I wrote this I think this is about the longest I’ve gone without using the internet.  Usually I would be very concerned about the Football playoffs, and reading the latest news on American politics, but as I’ve come to the realization that I will have no access to the internet, my need has slipped [...]

I have finished my first week.  It was a lot of ups and downs, and it really hit home how bad my French is.  But everyone, including myself, keeps saying it will get better soon. So since the last time I wrote… We had our swearing in ceremony in Bangante.  It was a big thing for Bangante, [...]