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May 18, 2009
18 May 2009 - Bamenda, Bamessing
18 May 2009 – Bamenda/Bamessing
I missed my first official day of blogging while in Cameroon…mostly because Sundays are fairly uneventful, consisting mainly of Jane and me reading on the balcony (Note: this extreme form of leisure has been relatively unknown to me over the last 3 years and I am thinking I will greatly enjoy Sundays here). Another positive aspect of Sunday was that we only had 2 very short power outages (we were thinking we wouldn’t have power all day).
Today Jane and I traveled to Bamessing to meet with a support group for people living with HIV/AIDS. The journey was long (almost as long as to Ndop), but thankfully, no student protesters this time. I hope this means that the students were able to negotiate higher security for themselves.
The support group meeting took place in the home of one of the village’s volunteers, Raymond. Raymond is a very personable, genuine man and I was glad to see him leading these people struggling with their disease. The meeting itself was brief and after it was over, I helped Jane with her project by interviewing those in attendance about their experience with HIV treatment and their participation in traditional medicine. We were offered food at the meeting, but Jane’s day-long stomachache and my always-weak stomach weren’t able to taken in too much.
Power outage count (since arrival): 8
Posted by ajvandeu at May 18, 2009 02:37 PM
Comments
Hi Adam, great blog. I'm a friend of your dads. I think I ended up with your ticket to see Leo Kottke in Ann Arbor. Not sure I ever said thanks for that. Thanks!
Anyway, are you going to be putting up some pictures too?
Brian O'Curran
Posted by: bmoc@comcast.net at May 18, 2009 05:57 PM
Thanks for the comment!
Unfortunately, the wonderful U of M blogging site does not allow pictures (or hyperlinks - I really should have looked into this further before staring my blog here), so I can't put up pictures.
Yet, never fear. I will be posting the link to my flickr page as soon as I get pictures uploaded (which may be after I return from the trip...).
Posted by: ajvandeu at May 20, 2009 01:41 AM
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