Author Archives: David
License Plate
Recently there was a car parked just outside our gate that had a unique license plate. We took a picture of it. Before we left Yaoundé to return to the USA last June, we saw an SUV that had an … Continue reading
International Availability
As I mentioned in the Box of Chicken blog, we are used to seeing our food packages written in many languages. We became accustomed to this while living in France and since the majority of imported items that we buy … Continue reading
Box of Chicken
One of our Cameroonian colleagues who works in the Finance Department, also sells frozen boxes of chicken. She won’t divulge where she gets the boxes from. I find comfort in buying the chicken because it does go through inspection by … Continue reading
Shower
No matter how long we live cross culturally and no matter how often we communicate in another language, there will always be cultural misses and lost in translation moments. I had one of those moments recently. The shower knob for … Continue reading
Pinewood Derby CAM Cars
During the month of April all the members of our organization who are in the country, come into Yaoundé for meetings and sessions. During this time we have entertainment options to last us for the year. We get to go … Continue reading
Testimony
I, DeAnna, will admit an area I struggle with is fully trusting the Lord to provide for us financially. I think part of my struggle is that living on support is so opposite to the way I was raised. I … Continue reading
Fresh Honey
Next to the place we purchased the shoes some people were selling fresh honey. When I say fresh I don’t mean recently jarred, I mean the bees are still working on it. The bees are at work in the white … Continue reading
Shoe Shopping
Joshua and Jonah are both growing at a rapid rate. Their feet have grown so fast that the shoes I packed six months ago before leaving the USA for them to grow into have already been grown out of. Now … Continue reading
Tree Chicken?
I returned home one evening just after it rained and it struck me as odd to see two clucking chickens about 7 feet up in a tree.
Happy Anniversary
On May 21, 1999, we were wed! It was a gorgeous spring day in Missouri, the sun was shining bright, it was warm and the birds were singing. We tried to time out the end of our ceremony with the … Continue reading
D squared + J squared = Anderson 