Oh my God.  I can't believe I'm on.  Have been trying desperately to get online for 3 days with no success.  I am in Yaounde......huge city of impoverished.  We are at a hotel Peace Corps has put us in for 5 days to prep us (and allow us to get over jet lag) for training in Bafia. It is a good hotel by Cameroon Standards and pretty awful by ours, but we have electricity and running water! It is not too hot here due to altitude...but am told Bafia will be HOT with a multitude of Mosquitos.  We will each be met as our bus arrives in B. by our respective host families and will begin intense training the next day.  I love my classmates who are all early 20's except 2....so feel a little odd....but what's new.  This is one bright group of people....Peace Corps is taking such good care of us making sure we are safe and fully prepared.  We got Typhoid shots today and have begun taking anti malarial meds that take a few days to kick in....that's another reason they are holding us here before sending us to B.  We met the PC Country Director, the PC Director of all of Africa (very wonderful) and the American Ambassador to Cameroon last night.  We are only 36 people in total so can have lots of access to these people.  We all had dinner together.  I am told internet access is better in Bafia.  Hope so!!!  Will let you know what my host family is like etc.