Hi, I'm at the Peace Corps office in Bafoussam where they have wi-fi and it's fast....YES!!!!!  Bafoussam is just a half hour from my post (which is a small village and doesn't have much).  This is where I will do most of my shopping and banking etc etc.  I've spent the past 3 days scoping out my village (Batie) and surrounding towns with the current volunteer here who is really filling me in on everything!  It's great.  The weather is cool, tho it rains every day usuallly in the afternoon.  When I first arrived it was so overcast that everything seemed depressing and dank, but now I am starting to understand it and think I am going to like it.  I have an outdoor latrine (a hoe in the ground in a little building in the backyard.  That is also where I will be taking my bucket baths (no running water, sigh) but that's okay.  The house has good potential with 4 rooms....the living room is large and the kithen is part of it....good for entertaining.  I am buying all her stuff so will be set up pretty well when I move in and she moves out (at the end of August).  There are no rats and very few bugs here and the mosquitos are not bad here at all, but still have to use mosquito net.  It is very hilly and picturesque.  Getting around (to surrounding towns for the markets etc) seems very complicated and confusing with various moto's, crowded taxis and stuffed to the gills vans involved but the PCV (peace corps volunteer....I'm a PCT...Peace Corps Trainee) assures me I will learn and get used to it in due time. You can see from the pic above of my house how drab and deserted it seems, surrounded by corn fields, but really it has it's charms. Gotta run...