Wednesday at Lycee could only have been more productive IF we had internet but since there was no internet (now marking one week) the students finished up all of their typing for the websites! This means, once the students are able to access internet, it will only take a few minutes of copying and pasting text to have their websites up to date.

Today, I wanted to start class out with a game because I realized that we don’t play too many games in class. I asked everyone...

This year, YAN welcomed back its students with a fun and interactive 'scavenger hunt'. The purpose was to not only allow the students to review what they had learned last year, but it also helped me evaluate where their strengths and weaknesses were. At first, there was only about 5 students who showed up and I had worried that I should have posted a reminder on the school's message board. But soon, anothe...

The Village: Rhumsiki (with pit stops in Mokolo, Kossehone, and Mogode)

My friend who had recently traveled here had recommended a guide for Megan and I for when we traveled. We had made arrangements while we were in Garoua and scheduled two days and one night in Rhumsiki hiking through the Mandara Mountains. We met our guide, Charles and our driver, Njida, Sunday afternoon to ask questions, get ourselves acquainted and discus details of the trip. We were scheduled to leave at 7am (whitem...

Welcome to the Northern Regions of Cameroon
“Bonne journee, bonne soiree, bonne annee, bonne vie!”
“Have a nice day, have a nice night, happy near year, have a nice life”

The next leg of my holidays was with Megan, a Canadian who will spend nearly one full year in Buea working for an NGO called Human IS Right. When she gets back to Canada, she will attend the very same school and study the same subject my amazing Aunty Patty has recently completed – International Develop...

The title of the blog post, Bumpy Dusty Roads, Mystical Twin Lakes, HOT DRY SUN, and Fulfulde, pretty much sums up everything I have been doing since my last days of teaching.

The first leg of my journey started in Douala. Douala is known to have the best night light in the entire country. Here you will find not only bars on every corner but also a slew of night clubs that are open until dawn and tons of cabarets that play some of the best music ever. Since we were going to Bange...