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June 01, 2009
1 June 2009 - Bamenda
I can’t believe we started our final week of work – we have been here for over three weeks now! Nothing too exciting in the office today – COPAAP administrative meeting and then updating/fixing projects. We’ll be making our final presentations to the staff on Thursday.
After a grueling day of office work, Jane and I headed to Dreamland for our final attempt at getting hamburgers (Dreamland, and nearly every other “tourist”-y restaurant in town have hamburgers on the menu but no restaurants have ever had them available when we try to order one). Once again, our attempt was in vain. We settled for chicken (easily the safest meat to eat here).
With little else to do but read at night, Jane and I were getting rather bored during the evenings and weekends. Early on, we figured out that the pirated DVD’s sold here don’t work on the laptop, meaning we had very few sources of entertainment (we have a TV, but the one channel, CRTV, is very awful and often in French, so we can’t bear to watch it). After scouring through the laptop my dad lent me, we came across a video of a Michigan Marching Band rehearsal for our “Beach Boys” show. This 8 minute, 12 second film has been quite the life-saver. We’ve watched it on numerous occasions (shhh….don’t tell Jane, but I sometimes watch without her) including this evening.
Power outages: 44
Posted by ajvandeu at June 1, 2009 04:21 AM