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.
posted by James Clarence @ 12:01 PM
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3 Comments:
Hey!!! I will definitely be keeping up with your journal!!! :) Thanks for writing it. I just had a flashback to my memories that you really hate French.....at least, you did in high school. Good luck with that!
Enjoy yourself -- and soak in the world.
Tiffany
Hey man, how's that French coming along? I was thinking that the first thing you should do when you get the accent down is to learn how to say "I fart in your general direction" perfectly. In the meantime, you might be interested in this article that a classmate sent me on how to write about Africa. You definitely want to consider this guy's advice before you write another word.
http://www.granta.com/extracts/2615
PS what's your email these days?
hey, are you alive?
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