Category Archives: home
What’s That Noise?
The other day while David and I were watching a movie, I heard something. It had been somewhat windy and on one side of our roof the aluminum roofing flaps a bit in the wind making a bit of a … Continue reading
Parched Land
There are two seasons in Cameroon; dry and rainy. Although we are about 300 km north of the equator, we have opposite temperatures than the states David and I grew up in. So that means Christmas is hot and dry … Continue reading
Christmas Greetings
We have received in the past two weeks, Christmas cards. Thank you for sending us a Christmas card. We enjoy getting mail and enjoy receiving these cards.
Water
The human body is approximately 60% water. We need water for our organs to function properly. We also use water for bathing, cooking, cleaning, etc… Our first term in Cameroon we lived on a compound with 22 other family units. … Continue reading
Cars
I’m a Saturday Night Live fan or I should say I’m a fan every 3 years or so. I remember watching Saturday Night Live and there was a specific set about a car made of clay. This was about the … Continue reading
Food Preparation
I used to coordinate people to help new arrivals with orientation to life in Cameroon. The first things being not to drink the tap water, staying inside dusk to dawn to avoid mosquitoes and soaking produce in bleach water for … Continue reading
Sous Chef
Joshua likes to help me in the kitchen. I call him my sous chef and he thinks that’s funny. He offers most everyday to help me prepare supper. His favorite to help with is making pizza since he snags a … Continue reading
Snails
At our home we have an overabundance of snails. Anyone who comes over at night comments on the numerous snails. These snails are big and they eat our dog’s food, plus they leave slime trails. Sometimes when returning at night … Continue reading
Intimate Apparel
We try to bring enough clothes, underwear, etc… with us for the full term we are planning to be here. So when we left the States in November 2012, we tried to predict wear and tear so we would have … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
As we look back on 2013 and give thanks for all that God has done we wanted to recap a few of the stories that we shared, in case you didn’t read all 120 stories that were posted in 2013. … Continue reading
D squared + J squared = Anderson 