Today we got to meet our community hosts, who are people who came from our community to help us visit the first time, show us around, and so forth. It’s another semi-artificial emotion rollercoaster whereby we get to anguish about it for a while, compare notes, decide whose is better, and ultimately decide to be […]
Title: Sites Today’s Date: Sunday, 2010 June 27 Instructor: Ethan Purpose: To inform about what has happened in the last few days. Objectives: At the end of this session, readers will be able to: repeat correctly at least one funny thing I’ve written recognize the name of my post feel bad for me It’s rainy […]
Today we had a language test, and that meant a lot of time hanging out and doing nothing. Some of us got there early since we didn’t want to hang out with our families. I brought Pandemic but nothing came of it because people were studying. I think it’s silly to study for a language […]
Saw a dog on the way home today. Haven’t had my third rabies shot so am not supposed to get friendly. He was trying to poop. Poor bastard, just looking for a place to evacuate his bowels. Me too, little guy. Me too. They mixed up the language classes today. I’m with Jenny now, and […]
I am starting to wonder whether I have re-used titles. Maybe I have. Sundays are laundry day. Each time I do laundry, someone tells me a different way to do it. Claude, for example, uses a bar of soap in addition to the detergent. Since Claude is the only person who actually explains to me […]
So, Cameroon just got eliminated from the World Cup (lost to Denmark). That’s as good as any a thing to lead with. Emily said today (a propos of receiving phone calls from family): "It’s like there’s too much to say. Or not enough." I think the explanation is simply that there are so many things […]
Today I found the "tech sessions" (the lectures that teach us how to be education people rather than simply people in Cameroon) especially frustrating. I’m not exactly sure why. I mean, there are certain obvious things, like the material… The Organization uses a format called 4-MAT to plan all our lessons, and mandates that we […]
Got an email from a friend and wanted to post the response in case it wasn’t explicit from my other posts. I am doing fine. I check the Internet every couple of days. Today I checked Twitter for the first time in two weeks and discovered something that I will have to check out when […]
I’m pretty tired and want to get to bed, plus not much has happened the last couple days, so I’m just going to hit the highlights: Trying to explain the short jokes we make about Jen. It doesn’t really even make sense in English: we’re just bad friends. Some things about Cameroonian French: "chez" is […]
It’s Sunday, which is our day of rest. (We have classes Saturday.) I got to sleep in — I thought I was going to have to go to church, like with other black families with whom I’ve stayed, but instead I slept until like 8. I needed that because I had been up late watching […]