VSO Cameroon 2010

2 weeks of my life just got wiped out being very sick. It started one morning breaking in to a…

The picture shows lilies in what is usually sand just outside Bogo.  The rains start about July. Most volunteers, especially in Education…

I have doubled my efforts to be sociable and to fully embrace and appreciate my fellow persons. I had dinner…

What shall I pontificate about this month? Feudalism. Much of what I have found in Bogo is essentially feudal –…

My own attempts at ‘elevage’ have met a lot of death. Last week, Mabel the sheep died. Basically she was…

  As I grapple with the do I come home early decision, I am thinking a lot about what this…

At festival times you see a lot of sheep riding about on motor bikes no doubt about to get killed and…

On Friday I had my ‘fete des femmes rurale’ event which ended up being part of a big department (county)…

3I am always on a mission about the utilization of public buildings. Basically I got the sous prefet to agree…

Last week it was GICs, this week it was GICs and wells and wells of tears metaphorically. There are basically…

3   I am writing this in a hotel in the political capital, Yaounde, coming back from a trip to…

Another project as part of my, ‘why do you keep your public buildings locked?’ strategy is getting a public grain…