Eating Local
I often lay in bed dreaming of strawberries and grapes, cheese, and chocolate. None of these are made here in-country…unless you count mambo bars, which may resemble chocolate but taste […]
Category Archives: Peace Corps
Falling…Prepared Two Ways
Last week I fell while running and rolled my ankle. It was a blinding pain and I immediately thought I had broken it. I was alone, just outside my neighborhood […]
Year 2: Posh Corps
Volunteers in their second year of service, in Cameroon, seem to have this change in mentality after Mid-Service Conference. We all start to relax a bit and think about the […]
Pretty in Pagne
I’d say that after a year of being in Cameroon, I’ve gotten pretty used to the attention I get as a nassara. The WAY too long stares from across the […]
Thank You, THANK YOU
A BIG thank you to all those who donated to the multimedia center project. As of today, we are fully-funded! And when I told the women of FEPES that we […]
Barka Da Sallah
Ramadan is OVER! Happy holiday to all. Well it was over on Sunday, but I’m a little late on posting…please excuse me. As a resident of Garoua, living right next […]
Multimedia Center Project
As soon as I arrived in Garoua, Simone and the members of FEPES were ready to work. One of the first things they spoke to me about was building a […]
You People Don’t Know My People
I’ve spent the last week hanging out with volunteers in Yaoundé and at a Girls Empowerment Forum. I love opportunities to hang out with volunteers from other regions because you […]
Things Just Feel the Same – an apology to my readers
I know, “whoa, where has this girl been?” Well I’ve been here, chugging along. When I last posted I was just getting started with my work and now I’ve completed […]
The work I keep saying I’m doing over here…
As you all know, I was in Guider for Thanksgiving but that’s not the only reason I was there. GIC FEPES, the women’s group I work with, was putting on […]
