Quick update

Coming back to Bafia for some reason I had certain expectations especially regarding food. After visiting Kumba and eating have a better sense of how much food cost and there is even less reason in my mind why I don’t get better and more food with my host family. 

So the second night, I will spare details of the awkward encounter and lack of a meal  the youngest sister left for Yaounde and the middle sister returned.  She returned with my host mom (which is really her cousin) and her actual older sister and her older brother.  This really makes me wonder who the little sister is in the family since she doesn’t actually look like anyone else in the family and they never refer to her directly as a sister but they also tell me she has the same dad and mom. Hmm? Anyways the moral of all this was that the middle sister keeps talking about how she wants me to marry her brother which of course I don’t want to.  This started when I first got to Bafia and hadn’t met him yet, not that changed anything since I don’t like her and that automatically puts him on questionable ground and most importantly I didn’t come to Africa to get married! So now he is here in Bafia for the next five weeks doing an internship the coincidence is I have five weeks left to training in Bafia. To make things more awkward is the 101 excuses I make every time they bring up me dating or marrying a Cameroonian or him.  But he does speak better English than anyone else and now is the only one who really talks to me beyond how was your day.

Questions:

How are your pc courses going? They are going well we get to have a lot of field trips to groups, businesses, and NGO’s which is really good to see what other people are doing and then to decide what was successful for them or what wasn’t.  this is good to keep in mind for other pcv’s projects as well.

What have you been focusing on? Its hard to say specifically what we focus on because we do so much. But we are learning about some basic business practices, how businesses run in Cameroon, and how to start, carryout, make sustainable, and how to evaluate our projects.  We are also doing work shops on teaching business classes.

How is your host family? Things are very up and down. I ate really well for two days while my host dad was around but then he went back to Yaoundé and things went right back to the way they were.  The first night that happened I got mad and asked where the rest of the food is was and I ended up eating frozen carrots and green beans but at least it was something.

Are you eating better? So a little but it is still a problem.

How is your health? So far my health is still pretty good can’t complain.  The cut on my leg is all better so not to worry.

What have you been up to? We’ve had a lot of field trips in class and a lot of presentations which all have to be in French so between the two I’ve been pretty busy.  We did have another party last night and we got curfew extended again, so that was nice!  I dropped off my fabric to make into some outfits fingers crossed that they turnout how I drew them.  I also bought some more fabric which I’ll drop off when I pick up the other clothes.

This is all I can write for now since I have a big presentation to work on for Tuesday…maybe I’ll be more creative and write more next week