The Halfway Mark
The internet in Buea, Cameroon is really something unique. I'm able to check email a couple times a week usually, but many websites are too intense for the snailspeed internet here to access. Blogger.com is one of these, so I have not been able to log into my blog interface to update this site.
Photos are, for now, out of the question. I have been selecting pics that I will put up here when I have a decent connection, so rest assured that many photos (over 160 already chosen, only halfway through my trip) will appear here eventually. These pics may, however, only appear in September when I arrive back in Europe.
As for my adventures, in the last month I've continued teaching French classes (which will end this week), I spent a few weeks going to our new school construction site and helping with the building of a new vocational unit for wood workshop and metalwork and that sort of thing, I went with 9 other volunteers to Mamfé, a town north and west from here, near the border with Nigeria (it's the major petrol smuggling point from Nigeria, you can't even buy Cameroonian petrol there), and I got Malaria.
The Malaria wasn't too bad, as I realized what it was almost immediately and got myself the medical attention I needed. I had the fun plasmodium falsiparum variety (aka Malaria +2) which is apparently very uncommon for foreigners here, though the doctor's explanation for this was not very clear at all.
I'm still enjoying my stay after 42 days and I have another 42 days left, as I fly back to Europe on August 27th.
Feel free to email me at chris [at] photodiarist.com if you want to hear more details or whatnot, and don't be surprised if the reply comes from chris.photodiarist [at] yahoo.ca, as I have my emails forwarded since I cannot check through my own server's webmail facilities using this net connection.
Photos are, for now, out of the question. I have been selecting pics that I will put up here when I have a decent connection, so rest assured that many photos (over 160 already chosen, only halfway through my trip) will appear here eventually. These pics may, however, only appear in September when I arrive back in Europe.
As for my adventures, in the last month I've continued teaching French classes (which will end this week), I spent a few weeks going to our new school construction site and helping with the building of a new vocational unit for wood workshop and metalwork and that sort of thing, I went with 9 other volunteers to Mamfé, a town north and west from here, near the border with Nigeria (it's the major petrol smuggling point from Nigeria, you can't even buy Cameroonian petrol there), and I got Malaria.
The Malaria wasn't too bad, as I realized what it was almost immediately and got myself the medical attention I needed. I had the fun plasmodium falsiparum variety (aka Malaria +2) which is apparently very uncommon for foreigners here, though the doctor's explanation for this was not very clear at all.
I'm still enjoying my stay after 42 days and I have another 42 days left, as I fly back to Europe on August 27th.
Feel free to email me at chris [at] photodiarist.com if you want to hear more details or whatnot, and don't be surprised if the reply comes from chris.photodiarist [at] yahoo.ca, as I have my emails forwarded since I cannot check through my own server's webmail facilities using this net connection.
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