Category Archives: Cameroon
Laundry
Where we live there is a shared laundry room for the 23 households and all of us have clothes lines in our yards to dry our clothes. It never fails with a guava tree in the backyard that we have … Continue reading
Cultural Differences
On the field trip we sat in a room that is normally used as a classroom. On the chalkboard was a section entitled Practical Life showing bathing equipment. There are small drawings under it with the towel, bucket of water … Continue reading
Field Trip
Last Friday the boys and I (DeAnna) went on a field trip to the Rainbow Innovative School. This is a private Christian Cameroonian School. I was able to get more experience driving today as we journeyed across Yaoundé. The school … Continue reading
Journey North
Last week I left for one week for Maroua in the Extreme-Nord of Cameroon for helping our regional office with some ongoing computer issues. The journey north requires several steps to get there since there is no online booking system … Continue reading
Change please
Living in a cash only society we are very familiar with the money here. The problem we run into frequently is that we don’t have exact change, not only do we not have exact change normally we only have a … Continue reading
Red and Green !?!
On the way back from church this morning we encountered a new dilemma. We came upon a stoplight that was both red and green at the same time. I asked DeAnna what light I should obey and we came to … Continue reading
Kindergarteners
During Social Studies in class last Friday we (DeAnna & Jonah) covered cities. We talked about how cities have buildings, stores, churches and roads. To help them understand, they built their own city using blocks and train track pieces. After … Continue reading
Fire
During reading time I decided to take Jonah to the library to do some CD Rom reading games. We were working on the computer when the lights flashed off and on. Electricity is frequently shut off, so we didn’t think … Continue reading
The Container Arrived
We received the 6 action packers we took to North Carolina in July 2009 to be shipped to Cameroon. It was exciting to go through all the things we packed. You might be wondering, what we decided to pack to … Continue reading
Lighting
We had a burnt out fluorescent light. I went to the local hardware store to buy a new bulb. I used the word ampoule (light bulb). The man behind the counter asked some clarifying questions and came to the conclusion … Continue reading
D squared + J squared = Anderson 