Coins. The flash wasn’t quite right on most of the photos I took of them. I ended up taking this picture with the camera upside down to get a decent exposure, and then rotated the picture. The smaller coins are the 5 CFA/10 CFA pieces. In terms of size, the 50 CFA coin is about […]
This is the image of my "compound", the walled complex of buildings I sleep in. It’s pretty small — maybe 30 feet across. This is a panorama taken from my porch. Full size is about 4.4 MB.
A photo of some teachers during our "taking of service" a couple days ago. J-C is wearing the brown suit jacket. In the background, the hills of Hauts-Plateaux.
Here’s another random photo, taken towards the end of training. Depicted are Allison, Jessica (who, though I took five pictures, is eating in all of them), and Peter. Naturally we noticed that the drinks could be sorted rainbetically [1]: The sodas are: Top Pamplemousse ("grapefruit", although it doesn’t taste much like grapefruit), Fanta, Top Grenadine […]
Testing something. In the meantime, here’s a picture of Vladimir.
Got my schedule (emploi de temps) today. No big ceremony. 16 hours of teaching, Monday, Thursday and Friday. Could be worse. More on that later. Today I would like to engage in a bit of Goal Three — sharing the culture here with you who are back home. The subject is ants (les fourmis). Mom […]
Some random things that you might be interested in: Ripe plantains can be eaten raw. They taste much like bananas. I was in a government building at Bafoussam and wandered into the "computer room". Three or four people were sitting at computers, all of which ran Ubuntu and OpenOffice. That was really nice. I can […]
OK, so since last we’ve spoken, I’ve started cooking. I bought a plaque à gaz ("portable stove"; wc?) pretty much the second day I was here — Ryan made fun of the packaging, which proudly proclaims the "world’s most number of automatic features" — and yesterday I finally got it hooked up to the tank […]
This just in: Blip Festival was moved from this December (which I had no chance of making) to next spring (which I could potentially make). Rock!
Went shopping again today. Made a friend in the car, named Kamgo Boris — he just started talking to me, I guess he was friends with some previous volunteers — and he looks halfway between Akeem, my old co-worker, and Jelani, friend from high school/college. He volunteered to help me haggle and go shopping, so […]