This past week has been rough. My water has not been on for almost 6 days now. I reek, I can’t make most of my food so I have been living off tomatoes and mangos, and I seem to be losing my voice.

My time with my students is quickly running out. If you read my last post then you should recall how stressed out I was thinking that I only until the 28^th of this month for the kids to finish their projects. Well, I just found out that classes actually end on the 23^rd. That is rig...
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This past week has been a very busy one and it doesn’t seem like it is going to slow down anytime soon. By the time this is posted, I will only have thirteen more classes/office hours with my students. In that time they need to have collectively completed four ...

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In the six days that I have been in Cameroon, I have had no running water for five of them, lost electricity for one, and during all six have had a variety of technical difficulties with the kid’s video projects. Welcome to Africa.

For the most part, these incidents have been minor and easily dealt with. No running water? Buy some bottled water so you don’t die of heat stroke and...

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