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OK, I'll try to make this quick, but there is a lot to talk about.
First, because I keep having problems with getting water in my bathroom, my landlord finally decided to do something about it. That meant punching a hold in the bathroom wall and inserting a new tube to connect my water source so the neighbor couldn't steal water anymore. That's a nice thought, but he cut the other pipe and let it just hang in the bathroom. Which was really fun when I still didnt get water from the faucet, but I did now get it pouring out of the piping. Which meant I had to tie it so the water would fall in the toilet instead of flooding the bathroom because there was now noway to stop the flow. The good thing now is that the toilet never fills up correctly, so the flowing water clears it out nicely (usually I flush by pouring a bucket of water in the bowl). I took a real shower--ok, low pressure few drips of water--for the first time in I dont know how long last night, instead of a bucket bath. Well, I had to finish with a bucket because the water shut off again.
Work is--interesting. We just had our youth leadership conference. That's a really nice idea, but it was SO disorganized. People were promised transportation reiumbursements, but then funding fell through, so people were mad about that. The first day they started 2 hours late because the Minister of something or other was late. Peoples names weren't on the list, their names were spelled wrong (heaven forbid!! that must be corrected right away!) and so on. We had even been promised free drinks from the COKE place here, but they didn't come unti the end of the last day. I was so busy running around trying to make things run semi-smoothly that I didn't get to really attend any of the sessions. I dunno, it was a very frustrating experience for me. I met some really interesting people...and I think I have two new boyfriends. To top it all off, the lady I work for forgot that she was supposed to talk about it at a press conference today, so I had to get up in front of 150 people and talk about an event that wasnt even mine.
There was a colony of cockroaches in today's taxi that crawled all over me.
Last week, a list of supposed homosexuals came out and it was a huge scandal because its illegal in Cameroon. This week's list is of the richest men in Cameroon. Funny how all of them are government ministers of the heads of state-owned companies. Cameroon, you are special. And corrupt.
There's more to write, but part of what I wrote already got erased and Im frustrated for the day, so I'll try again another time, perhaps after I get back from Douala.
Have a nice weekend every one!
First, because I keep having problems with getting water in my bathroom, my landlord finally decided to do something about it. That meant punching a hold in the bathroom wall and inserting a new tube to connect my water source so the neighbor couldn't steal water anymore. That's a nice thought, but he cut the other pipe and let it just hang in the bathroom. Which was really fun when I still didnt get water from the faucet, but I did now get it pouring out of the piping. Which meant I had to tie it so the water would fall in the toilet instead of flooding the bathroom because there was now noway to stop the flow. The good thing now is that the toilet never fills up correctly, so the flowing water clears it out nicely (usually I flush by pouring a bucket of water in the bowl). I took a real shower--ok, low pressure few drips of water--for the first time in I dont know how long last night, instead of a bucket bath. Well, I had to finish with a bucket because the water shut off again.
Work is--interesting. We just had our youth leadership conference. That's a really nice idea, but it was SO disorganized. People were promised transportation reiumbursements, but then funding fell through, so people were mad about that. The first day they started 2 hours late because the Minister of something or other was late. Peoples names weren't on the list, their names were spelled wrong (heaven forbid!! that must be corrected right away!) and so on. We had even been promised free drinks from the COKE place here, but they didn't come unti the end of the last day. I was so busy running around trying to make things run semi-smoothly that I didn't get to really attend any of the sessions. I dunno, it was a very frustrating experience for me. I met some really interesting people...and I think I have two new boyfriends. To top it all off, the lady I work for forgot that she was supposed to talk about it at a press conference today, so I had to get up in front of 150 people and talk about an event that wasnt even mine.
There was a colony of cockroaches in today's taxi that crawled all over me.
Last week, a list of supposed homosexuals came out and it was a huge scandal because its illegal in Cameroon. This week's list is of the richest men in Cameroon. Funny how all of them are government ministers of the heads of state-owned companies. Cameroon, you are special. And corrupt.
There's more to write, but part of what I wrote already got erased and Im frustrated for the day, so I'll try again another time, perhaps after I get back from Douala.
Have a nice weekend every one!