Just a few recent events... fun, fun, fun...

Meet some of my neighbours: Sarah (Australia), Liliane (Argentina), Suni (Cameroon), Rosio (Chile), and Yvette (Chile). We spend lots of time together in the quiet Bamenda evenings, as they live just across the street. You can usually find us munching on snacks, playing Frisbee, or watching a Spanish soap opera on television. One day we all got dressed up in our fancy, traditional African wear and headed to a musical concert at their church. It was a colourful evening, full of loud and intense music, dancing, and drumming... an indescribable atmosphere of joy and faith, demonstrated by the congregation.

That’s me and Bamenda’s Canadian crew: Eric, Marcy and Karly; on Canada Day. We gathered all the VSO volunteers and friends, to celebrate the day with bean burgers and salads. We even made them all wear red and white and maple leaf tattoos too! Us, Bamenda-residing Canadians.... I even found an African dress with red maple leafs to mark the occasion. They said I was really becoming Cameroonian, especially because I carried over a big pot of potato salad on my head!

These are some of my colleagues from the NWADO crew: Desiree, Lovelyn, Gwen, Julius, and Eric. I had them all over to my place for lunch one Sunday afternoon. Plenty of food and laughs, and even more wine! Cheers!

And this one’s my birthday... I turned 2! We actually had a VSO workshop that day, so at lunch we had a nice big, vegetarian meal. This is a bunch of the VSOers and my Cameroonian sisters that made the cake! It was delicious... who knew you could find a cake like that in Bamenda?!

Random Sightings in Bamenda...

~ A mini yellow taxi with a ski rack on its roof
~ A yellow taxi driving along, dripping blood... because it’s got four skinned cows hang’n out the trunk
~ Two clowns walking down the main street, big red shoes, red nose, curly rainbow hair, and all!!!
~ A fluorescent pink FORD truck
~ Goats strapped to the roof of a bus
~ Procession of funeral cars, with flashing lights and sirens... and a sign that says: ‘the final destination’
~ Street Vendor selling greasy, fried pig skin in bread.... ewwwwww!
~ A police officer stopping traffic at the ‘crazy intersection’ to allow approximately 40 women with large buckets of potatoes on their heads, to cross the road... potato cross walk?
~ No traffic jam
~ White person... with a motorcycle helmet...