Things have been going well in
Kumba. I still don’t have my furniture but it is still a work in progress. The more I get to know my neighbors the more
they seem to grow on me. So directly
across the hall from me is a laundry service they are a little to pricy for me
to afford but still a nice guy. Down
stairs I have a lawyer’s office and below him is the bank that is guarded 24hrs
a day by guards.
For work I’ve just really been
meeting people sitting in on something that the other volunteers are doing. I was suppose to teach a business class on
personal finances and budgeting but the afternoon of the class they told me it
was rescheduled it to the 28th even thought I had met with them the
day before and had even discussed the session. Oh well it will give me
something to do next Friday. I also
attended a HIV/female condom seminar with ACMS.
AMCS works with Jessica the other pcv in Kumba. I must say that I was very impressed by their
seminar and learned a lot on the female condom, how to address sensitive issues
in a cultural context, and overall how ACMS conducts its sessions.
Also I’ve
started to take French classes again just for an hour twice a week with the
secretary of my counterpart. We’ve only
met one weekend so far so we’ll see how that goes.
For a
couple days last week I had a mini spout of food poisoning. No big deal; with all the new foods I eat and
all the restaurants that I try I feel I’ve been pretty lucky to have been
relatively healthy. So I can’t really
complain. Speaking of food I found out
while talking to the other pcv that apparently I’ve had cow stomach when I was
living with my host family. I had no idea but now I can cross that off my
bucket list. *cough cough* Well besides
the texture it wasn’t that bad, not that I think ill choose to make that for
myself.
Wednesday
Kate who is originally from Nguti came to Kumba which was a nice little visit.
On Friday Kate, Ryan, Jessica, and I all went to Limbé and went swimming in the ocean. We got extremely lucky to miss the rain and have
great weather for the couple hours we were at the beach. The bus ride over wasn’t quite so lucky. We
got to the car park at about 10:30 and got a bus that was going direct to Limbé so first of all we didn’t leave
for about two hours waiting for the bus to fill the whole time being deranged
by a bag man to marry him. Then we
finally leave and but have to stop at EVERY car park along the way. So what
should have been an hour to two hour car ride too us about four. It was all worth it to get some beach time. After swimming we went to a restaurant that
is owned by a south African couple. The
restaurant is a little expensive but has great food. I split a cheese, tomato, and basil sandwich
and a cheese pizza with another volunteer.
We had decided to go to this restaurant which is in the gorilla
sanctuary and when we arrived we ran into Andrea who lives in Buea which is where
we were staying the night. Andrea was
meeting Laura, Claire, and Sam who are all from the North West region of
Cameroon. So we had a nice little dinner together. Everyone was heading to Buea for Andrea’s
going away party on Saturday. The party
was really nice there were a bunch of volunteers there, Americans from other
non profits, and Cameroonians. We had
hot dogs, French fries, frosted brownies, fruit salad, chopped carrots and
green bell pepper with ranch dressing, ginger snap cookies, and equan (a
Cameroonian dish). Good food and great
company.
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