To all those who donated to my two projects, I really wish I could send an email to all of you personally updating you on the progress of the school/training but the information I got on who donated is simply name and address, but not email addresses. But, if you know anyone who donated who [...]
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So I think anyone who had been abroad for a long period of time will sympathize with my lack of posts recently. In the beginning of service everything was new, shocking, surprising and interesting. Now, however, Cameroon, and more specifically, Hina, is my home. I am so used to life here that I really nothing [...]
Just got back to Yaounde from a WONDERFUL 2.5 weeks with Nate (bro). We had a great time in Limbe and Bamenda and it was just wonderful to have time together as adults to reminice and talk about growing up and family and life and love and….! I think it was an important trip for [...]
I am in Yaounde for a week for our mid-service medical checkups getting poked and prodded in every way imaginable and so far have come out clean besides bronchitis. It was cool, I got an inhaler so I can be cool like my asthmatic friends!
In 7 days my brother is coming to Cameroon!!!! I am [...]
Hey all,
I need help to build an elementary school for Ketcheble, a hard working self starting village in need in Northern Cameroon. The current elementary school for 300 students is made up of two woefully inadequate one room buildings each smaller than most American living rooms. The youngest students’ building has a roof of sticks [...]
I am worried that I am at the point where I am going to start losing some of my unfaltering optimism here. We volunteers share between us all of the hardships but never really post them on our blogs, which I think is for the best. I, as well, have left my rants away from [...]
Amazingly I just realized that I only have less than one year left here in country. Already. I just celebrated likely my last Thanksgiving, my last Fete De Mouton, and soon my last Christmas here in Cameroon. Once December starts it will be for sure that I only have one more cycle… no longer can [...]
See this article:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/09/0082640
This article is why I don’t agree with the major tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). I personally do not find standardized testing all that attractive as a the focus only on standardized testing where all students in a state take the same test under the same conditions as the [...]
Hey loved ones!,
I am so sorry it has been so long since I have posted but I have been SUPER busy doing graduate school applications any time I have had access to the internet. I am pretty much done with applications now which is a big burden lifted and now I am just excited to [...]
Dear readers,
Since last time I blogged… TWO of my very close and amazingly beautiful, smart, and talented friends have started their Peace Corps journeys as well! Kate is now in Thies, Senegal finishing up training to start as an agroforestry volunteer, and Sara just got accepted into Peace Corps Niger for their animal husbandry [...]
- Boobie is fly in fulfulde, the “market” and common language of the extreme north. Hehe. Ha do boobie juur! (Over their there are too many flys!). Hehehe..
So another volunteer had this idea of a mail bag for his blog where people email him questions and then he answers some or all of them in [...]
This will be a short update but I am now back home after traveling for around three weeks. London was amazing, got to spend a lot of time with Brianna, another volunteer that I was close with during training but we hadn’t gotten to talk much since then which was just really a treat. Her [...]
You know it has been a long time since you posted when you need to read what your last post contained…. doh…
HI!
So life here in Cameroon has been going well. I have finally had a couple months without parasites (fingers crossed that that trend continues) so that has added a lot of happiness to my [...]
You know it has been a long time since you posted when you need to read what your last post contained…. HI!
So life here in Cameroon has been going well. I have finally had a couple months without parasites (fingers crossed that that trend continues) so that has added a lot of happiness [...]
Hey y’all.
Well, this entry might not be as long as the others but I will still give a short update on recent happenings! How is life in the U.S. of A.? I got some newsweeks in my recent packages and really it paints a bleak picture back there regarding the economy. I feel for you [...]
Haha… well thanks for the pressure to write another entry, sorry that it has been so long but you need to begin to be patient with me because I really have not had the ability to use the internet in a long while!
Again, where to start. Thanks to EVERYONE who has sent packages. Really, some [...]
So in 3 days I will have been in Peace Corps for 4 months. Sheesh. Has gone so fast, yet slow, like everything in life. I have really been active in village since my last post and sorry that this post will be hurried because I am actually going to talk with an NGO ACMS [...]
Wow. So… I don’t even know where to start.
Merry Christmas everyone! As I did with site visit… lets start from the beginning. I have one hour of cyber-cafe time and really nothing to do today… lets see how much I can write.
I got to post on Friday, December 5th and RIGHT after I got dropped [...]
OK! So here is a description of the pictures even though I thought I had written descriptions that randomly didn’t show up once I posted them…
1. I brought jello along in my luggage and made it for my host family. That is my mom on the left, beatrice my sister on the right, and vivi [...]
October 13, 2008
I had an interesting interaction the other day. I went to the Carrefour to catch a bush taxi to Garoua and there was a man standing there waiting along the side of the road for a taxi to Garoua as well. He was holding an AK-47 but looked nice and of no harm. [...]
Today is a good day! We got out of training early this morning so I jetted over to Garoua to use the net for a bit and get some lunch. Training is almost over… which is crazy! Many mixed emotions will go into training being done. On one hand, the training classes have really not been [...]
OK! I am back! I just went and got a hamburger, no joke, at a local restaurant in Maroua. Seriously these are hamburgers that would be good in the US, let alone here. Also, they even have ketchup! You all might not think that is an incredible feat, but it is… trust me. A single [...]
hey all!!
i am in maroua right now at a cyber cafe and my time is about to run out. i just wanted to tell everyone that i am alive and well and my post is amazing! i was posted to hina, a small town of around 5,000 people in the extreme north. it has no [...]
I think my passions might be switching to be most interested in working for education for young girls. Universal primary education and higher education opportunities fo r both genders, but girls especially since they are left out so often here in Cameroon especially. Women’s empowerment starts with educational opportunities. The fight against malnutrition starts with [...]
Also! I bought a cell phone so I can recieve incoming calls and incoming text messages for free. I can send text messages for around 30-40 cents so feel free to text anytime! If you are so inclined you can call through Skype for around $10 for 30 minutes.
237 (country code) 79492159
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Zomg hello everyone!
Currently I am down a random dirt/trash/rock road that passes to the right of a huge Catholic church in Garoua, Cameroon. The normal place where I use the internet (and my normal I mean the one I used last week) was not working so I followed a random person’s lead to where I [...]
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