Wow.  It's been a long time!.  The wi-fi has been in and out here due to storms and delestage (when they purposefully cut the electricity for who knows what reason).  I tried to blog last weekend and spent a couple hours uploading pictures and small videos and just as I was about to post, the wi-fi went out and I lost it all!  It takes forever to upload videos so will write blog first and then try to upload later if I have the time.  Anyway,  my family was out of town for a funeral, so I had a "baby-sitter" for a while (a 20 yr old girl named Dorothy) (its true) who stayed in the house and cooked and there was also Simon (22) who is like the family slave....works like a dog for the family with no pay for the distant promise that they will send him to trade school one day (its been 4 years so far). So Dorothy, Simon and I have been chillin together....they are really fun.  It's like a vacation for all of us. We trainees are not allowed to be out after dark by the way.... ....  I feel like a kid again...

They eat basically the same food over and over here, day after day.....a little bit of chicken or fish with  a large serving of starch (foo foo, rice pasta, bread)...sweets are almost never served.)  So that's a hint to send treats (cookies?, tootsi pops?, in and out burger (NO!)....use your imaginations).  If you are worried that we have to pay to get our packages, don't, everyone does it with pleasure to get a goody box.  Send everything to the Yaounde address I gave you for now. (I could use some had sanitizer...)  I usually get an omelet for breakfast which I love and is my main source of protein for the day.  Yesterday, however I had pasta with rice for breakfast.

School is intense,  The Cameroonians are a friendly people.  It's fun to go to the local markets.  There are piles of burned things that I finally realized were fried (super fried) monkeys for instance....it's a jumpin place tho and very fun. (Just threw that in for shock value but its true).