One Year

I've been in Cameroon for around 370 days now, and despite having between 13-14 months left depending on which COS date I get/choose, Peace Corps is basically over.  Hear me out:

 

We're already in October. The dry season is here, school's back in, and people are starting to harvest and will be returning to town; it's when I'm busiest.  My work schedule is pretty much set until I go on vacation this Christmas, and that's only two months away, holy crap.  After I prendre my vacation and I get back to Lagdo, I have to hightail it back to Yaounde for mid-service, an obligatory one-year medical check-up, for another week or so.  After mid-service, I head back to village for Year 2.  At some point in February or March, the very dry/hot season, I'll probably take more vacation time to see the touristy places in the Extreme North province and visit other PCVs' posts.  Then after that is over, rainy season starts, and work slows down, then August is COS Conference, then I might help out with training the new PCVs in September/October, then I can't start any new projects my last three months, then next thing I know, I'll be on a plane to Atlanta wondering what in the world I did these last 27 months. Phew.

 

Well, I don't really have much else to say right now.  I'll write about men holding hands in my next post.