Yaoundé

In this post: Highway robbery, enchiladas, HIV healing, phototography superstitions

I spent the last week in Cameroon’s capital city, Yaoundé.

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Kribi Weekend

I spent the weekend on the beach at Kribi with my friend Louis and her boyfriend’s cousin Gael.

We left Douala friday on the ‘noon’ bus which actually left at 2:30p.

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a 'normal' week [EDIT: Added Pictures]

In this post: emotions, hair, bar fight, dancing, and bichos [EDIT:] Added some photos

After I got mugged last week, I was a little shaken. I didn’t lose much, but the act of being robbed had me feeling both anger and fear.

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Some Statistics

(I wrote this last night March 5th)

I’ve been here 44 days (as of 5-Mar).

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Traveling(!): Limbé, Yaoundé, Ngaoundéré, Garoua

(I wrote this last night the 26th but am posting this on today the 27th since we have no internet in the house)

Right now as I write this, I’m sitting with my host sisters, watching a latin-american telenovela which has been translated into French.

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West Province

This week I got to my host brother/father’s village. To clarify, if the parents of the house I live in are my host-parents, then Marius, who I’ve been calling my host-brother is actually my host uncle. That is, he is the little brother of the Father of the family I live with.

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Pictures (and some other things)

Things with me are going well. The first couple weeks were really intense but I feel a lot more settled in and comfortable now. I went with some co-workers today to speak to a group of retired military who are potential clients for the microfinance coop CEFA...

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