the nature of the beast the whereabouts of a peace corps volunteer in the west region of Cameroon.
this ain’t summer camp
3/2/12 I’ve never been one to miss people when I travel or move cities. Even when I was little and went to summer camp and all the homesick kids would cry at night with the counselors assuring them that everything would be OK and they would see their parents in just a couple weeks. My […]
hiding
1/10/12 Some call it hiding. I’ve been staying a lot in my house lately watching movies, reading World Without End on my new kindle, doing workout videos and baking bread to balance out the exercise. My new hibernation is due in part by my readjustment back to village from big city life I got lo […]
she loves me
i had lost all hope, and then woke up at 6:30 to meowing and a bigger cat with redder ears. Pretty sure it’s still Bellatrix, but I’m keeping her nonetheless.
bonne annee
Happy 2012 everyone! I’ve had a great last few weeks getting to hang out with my fellow volunteers for the holidays. We had a week-long seminar mid-December which was in a town called Limbe on the west coast of Cameroon. The beaches were black and we found a restaurant with pizza, smoothies and iced coffee. […]
joyeux noel
This may possibly be my busiest year to date. If I had succeeded into training myself to use a planner like I tried in middle school, I may have filled in every little box and used up all the stickers on the back page for appointments and birthdays, vacations and minor life changes. If they […]
stop being so wonderful bing crosby and ella fitzgerald
12/5/11 So IST is the next big even for us PCV’s. IST stands for In-Service Training. It will be the first time I will get to see everyone from my stage (first training group) and each of us volunteers are bringing a colleague to attend the seminars with. The IST location is in Limbé which […]
quick update
The last I wrote about was my terrible halloween eve. Which means it’s been about a month since and a million things have happened. I am finding it difficult to bring myself to write because I encounter so many wonderful, terrible, and just weird things everyday it’s proved to be overwhelming. I’ve thought about so […]
halloween
11/8/11 Wow a long time has passed since I’ve gotten back to the blog. Halloween was a lot of fun despite being the first time I had a freak out and cried infront of african mamas. I found a giant blonde braided weave and a sparkly pink dress to dress up as rapunzel. I was […]
teaching in cameroon
10/11/11 teaching in africa is nothing like I could have expected. When you come into a situation like mine, you bring all the experience you have and try to go from there. The only problem is is my experience as a student was close to a billion times different than the kids here will ever […]
c is for cameroon
10/5/11 I’m still working on getting internet at my post. Every week I make the journey to Bafoussam to find another missing part to the puzzle. So far it’s been 5 weeks of trying, but I think I’ve almost got it. I hope to do a lot more writing, too, when I can finally get […]
internet and thanks
I’m buying internet today in Bangangte hopefully. They don’t have the modems in the big city. Who knows how they do any business.. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you all for reading and let you know how awesome it is to read your comments every weekend when I come to Bafoussam. It gives me […]