After waiting for 45 minutes, here is a picture of la grande fete pour mon anniversaire a few days ago; including, PC volunteers and many neighborhood children.Jam Na! Jam bandu na? Hello Everyone! I hope all is going well. Happy, Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! It is about 85 degrees here and extremely humid, so it doesn’t quite feel like “winter” is approaching. I will probably be spending my Christmas in my Muslim village….thus, not much will be going on. Will probably spend New Years in Ngaoundere about 2 hours away. There are some other Americans a few hours away from me so we will probably meet up to Celebrate…but who knows.
Stage just ended so more liberty is on its way. My host family hosted a large party for my birthday. They prepared loads of food; rice and beef, fried chicken, salad, bread, cakes etc, and I had a large neighborhood fiesta, filled with cute children, dancing and good eating. The actual night of my birthday was spent in Yaounde. It also involved much eating. I’m sort of glad to have left Bangangte and am ready to go to my post. Granted its saddening knowing that I won’t be with my fellow stage mates for another 3 months ; however, hopefully I will find friends and be very busy in village…..
Currently I’m in Yaounde with about 40 new people. There are roughly 140 PC volunteers in Cameroon in total, so I have had the opportunity these last few days to meet a lot of new people, which is great. Besides the upcoming large adjustment that I am experiencing tomorrow, after the long, long train ride, by moving into village, not too much is going on. I will probably spend the next few months doing preliminary assessment of the village, learning Fufulde, meeting community members, attending meetings, doing protocol, and furnishing my house….I’m a far, far cry from any sort of interior designer; thus, it probably will not be too stylish nor any of the furniture matching.
Any way, once again happy holidays!!!!!
Stage just ended so more liberty is on its way. My host family hosted a large party for my birthday. They prepared loads of food; rice and beef, fried chicken, salad, bread, cakes etc, and I had a large neighborhood fiesta, filled with cute children, dancing and good eating. The actual night of my birthday was spent in Yaounde. It also involved much eating. I’m sort of glad to have left Bangangte and am ready to go to my post. Granted its saddening knowing that I won’t be with my fellow stage mates for another 3 months ; however, hopefully I will find friends and be very busy in village…..
Currently I’m in Yaounde with about 40 new people. There are roughly 140 PC volunteers in Cameroon in total, so I have had the opportunity these last few days to meet a lot of new people, which is great. Besides the upcoming large adjustment that I am experiencing tomorrow, after the long, long train ride, by moving into village, not too much is going on. I will probably spend the next few months doing preliminary assessment of the village, learning Fufulde, meeting community members, attending meetings, doing protocol, and furnishing my house….I’m a far, far cry from any sort of interior designer; thus, it probably will not be too stylish nor any of the furniture matching.
Any way, once again happy holidays!!!!!
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