hey!  I am in an internet cafe in centre ville (downtown Bafia).  Oh my God, what a weekend. Some of the students organized a big party at a local hotel and we were allowed to stay out till 10 pm at which time the PC vans came and picked some of us up to take us home....me among them.  It was one wild party....I do not want to tell some of you what your kids are doing at parties.....well, I joined right in and well, now I am desperately popular.  I will post just one picture of it just to give you an idea.  There were some who spent the night at the hotel and so did not leave at ten. I'm glad I got out of there before the "pants off, dance off".....  need I say more? School is intense. Because I am the highest proficiency french student, I have to teach a class in french to the local business people.  This ought to be interesting....They are afraid I will get bored otherwise (you gotta be kidden me!!!)  Oh well.  I have been way out of my comfort zone the whole time I've been here....I guess I can do this too.  We took a field trip to Yaounde yesterday to visit UNICEF and ADAF which are two possible organizations we could be working with at post.  Then we went to a bakery where I found pizza and toasted cheese sandwiches which we stuffed in our mouths like starving little pigs.....oh, it was so good!!!!  Now back in Bafia with the foo foo.  I think I am losing weight.

I am already sick of my clothes and wish I would have brought more.  The advice to pack light was not good advice at all.  Not only do I realize I will need a lot more clothes, but they have burdened us with a bicycle, a huge moto helmut, a bicycle helmut, a large water purifier, a large lockable trunk and a heavy bread box sized surge protector along with a ton (i kid you not) of books.   We will be dropped off with all this stuff at the regional capital of our posting and then have to make it on our own to whatever village we are assigned to....with all this stuff, after telling us to pack lite!!!!! I don't know how I will manage, but people have done it before me, so I guess I will too.

My stomach has been a little upset lately....a little nausea.  I hope the "alien" does not come bursting out of my stomach.  Here is the picture i promised you.....I hope