Two Moms

Hey everyone Im on a french keyboard. Ill try to keep the runon sentences to a minimum. I cant find the damn apostrophes and commas.

I live in a polygamist family in Pitoa. I have two moms; a butcher dad; and a gazillion brothers and sisters and everything else. It's a dusty town; only the main highway leading other places is paved. I am about to start my fourth week of training. I think my French is improving. As for the Health technical training: I love Theo "Handout" but the sessions are boooooring... so far. We havent really learned anything specific yet about the health topics we will try to talk about at post.

Speaking of post: I find out where I will be living for the next two years in a couple weeks. I will visit the post for a week in November sometime then actually move there in mid December.
Pretty crazy!

Personally I am doing good. I have my ups and downs that usually occur within hours of each other. The best thing Ive done so far is by a fan. Oh my goodness you dont know how good a fan is until you spend a night under a mosquito net in Pitoa.

This keyboard is too frustrating to keep typing. Ill write more in a couple weeks.

Orientation

We got to Yaounde, the capital, last Saturday evening.  We're in a hotel here until we go up north for our training this Saturday.  There are 30 people in my group.  Two people quit before we left Philadelphia, and everyone else is still here.  There are 7 guys and 23 women.  Just about everyone is right out of college, and there are two married couples.

They're finally letting us walk around today from the PC compound and the hotel after four days. And we met the US ambassador to Cameroon late this morning.  He'll also be at our swearing in in December up north.  The village I'll be at or around is Pitoa, which is 17 km from Garoua. We just had our first French lesson ("Survival French"), and we're probably looking forward to a lot of rice and some beef for dinner.