VSO Cameroon 2010

I have my Uncle Bob to thank for my love of travel. My Dad died when I was a baby…

The selection process is totally different now, but becoming accepted for VSO no doubt remains a lengthy process with no…

The big news this month is that I have got accepted for VSO! Finally, after waiting two months instead of…

This whole VSO process is much slower than you probably think.  I still have 2-3 training week-ends and must pass…

The most exciting and special bit of news this month is that on Wednesday June 3rd about 11am, son J1…

30th June 2009, placement offer   Dear Hazel, You have been matched to the attached placement as Institutional Development Advisor…

I underestimated the level of emotional withdrawal needed to take a leap. VSO wrote to offer me a placement as…

As I mentioned, one of the things we are supposed to do prior to departure is to raise £900 sponsorship….

I am conscious that this will be the last time I write to you before I leave. My internet link…

Yaounde is the political capital of Cameroon nestling in a valley surrounded by hills. There are very few buildings of…

I embarrassed myself this morning by not having changed my watch and thinking it was 10am just out the shower…

Interestingly, ‘positive thoughts – positive emotions – positive results. We are good people’, was the message of the formal in-country…