This week I stayed with a Canadian VSO volunteer in a village called Mouda. I will be living in a village close by called Moudawa and I will work in a few villages around the area. Its in the Extreme North and its only about a 45 min trip to Maroua, the provincial capital. My house is a small 2 room concrete building, and its what is referred as “en brouse”, with means in the bush. It is the only concrete building within about 5 km. Everything else is mud and thatch. The people are really great, but they dont’t speak that much French, especially the women. Hopefully, I will be able to learn a bit of Giziga which is the tribal language everyone speaks here. My house doesn’t have electricity or running water, but it does have huge mango trees right beside the door. It’s mostly a Protestant area. I think the biggest thing I will be working on is the problem of dessertification. My counterpart and I have talked about a community forest with a live fence as a project for the groups we are wanting to start. I think the work will probably start slow, especially with my language level. But its so exciting to actually have an idea of what I might be doing for the next 2 years. We shall see! I am off now, more later!
there is no later, this is later.
Ashley,
Good to see you made back to civilization. If you can think of anything else you need let me know so I can send it to Mr. Kornagay this week. We don’t want to miss him again. He will be returning on the 4th of December. The guys are stripping at the McCormick place. They finished Wills 1/4. I won’t tell you what the temperature is because it might sound like boasting. We are looking forward to the TTU games this week. We are now ranked #2 in the nation. We will see if they can hold on. We miss you bunches which makes for a few restless nights surfing the internet for Peace Corps AND Cameroon, or Mouda, Cameroon AND Heat, or Blogs AND Cameroon. Everyone is doing fine including Buffy. We have had two calves this week. One was born on the 5th. She is Black with a white face and four white socks and a white tip on her tail. We named her Obama in honor of the election. She is so cute I wanted to bring her home but then the thought of bottle feeding changed my mind. Think of a name for the one born today. We love you, Mom
hey. have fun with that no water and electricity thing. shoooooot i sure aint. well i just wanted to see if you got my mail. i sent it like 3 weeks ago, maybe more, and you better have gotten it cuz that postage alone cost $14. haha. jk. i sent it to the address you gave a while back. let me know. miss you.