During a recent trip to Bafoussam, I brought back some goodies: Depicted; a sausage, an orange juice drink that came in a plastic can, and "gateau" (a kind of white bread that is a little sweet). Depicted: Pringoooals, some mediocre chocolate cookies, a bar of baking chocolate, and an "alveol" of eggs. Not depicted: green […]
And then, naturally, they disconnected me. I think I’m in luck though, because I just got re-connected after going to re-buy Internet today. J’ai de la chance! The people at the Camtel office spoke English to me. Unlike the lady at the bank, who started the conversation with "Bonjour" while working with another client in […]
Just finished grading my two classes of 3e. I timed the second one; 37 papers, about 1.5 hrs. The first one was 59 papers and it felt like forever. In my second class I found four pairs of identical or nearly-identical papers. "Identical" in this context means that one student said that they had used […]
Today is better than yesterday. Some of the shit that, due to my failings as a human being, was fucked yesterday is unfucked today. Additionally I went to Bafoussam and got drunk and hung out with a bunch of the Volunteers of the West region. Additionally I successfully used the word agrandir ("to make bigger") […]
I have approximately four and a half classes worth of papers left to go through. I am not enjoying it. This was just the warm-up; next week is the real test for the sequence, which means each paper will be four times as long. Today is a bad day. I’m not sure if it is […]
OK, so now I have more furniture, making my house incrementally more liveable. Transportation is, as always, an adventure: But now I have enough furniture that I can legitimately take pictures of my house. Note my celebrated organizational technique of throwing clothes onto things. Or sometimes just leaving them in great scattered piles on the […]
I thought I’d share some pictures of some stuff I eat. I went shopping market-day-before-last (last Sunday?) and photographed some stuff. First: Prunes. "Prunes" is just the French name for them; in Anglophone Cameroon, they’re called "plums" (since prune means "plum" in English). Of course, they only look like plums. They are, indeed, the fruit […]
Today’s post is titled "Buried Treasure" in honor of some of the weird crap I’ve found in the computer lab in the process of sorting it out. Apparently we’re scheduled to get some more computers in the next week or so, and the prestataire (literally "recipient", but if I understand correctly he’s more like a […]
Jenny is a little bit of a flake, but in a good way, I think. She and Ryan were here last weekend (i.e. 9 days ago), and I wrote down some of her wisdom: I was bored one day, so I peeled a lot of garlic. [About a "pont du singe", "monkey bridge", which is […]
Here are the "schemes of work" I came up with for Informatique. Theory I’m more-or-less on/ahead of schedule for every class. Practice I’m falling behind; I’ve been re-doing lessons because they don’t figure stuff out the first time. Uploaded: fiche de progression 4e.odt (OpenDocument Text, 22.0 KiB) Uploaded: fiche de progression 3e.odt (OpenDocument Text, 22.0 […]