After spending the first weekend in Yaounde, we took a bus to our training site. That is the village where we will do our technical and language training while living with Cameroon host families. Right now we're about halfway through the 12 week training.

I live with a very lovely host family. First there were two parents, Aunt Mary, 11year old cousin Louise, 4 year old Yvanna and 2 year old Louis-Michel. But then Louise left for the vacation and 3 different cousins arrived, Brian (6), Pauline (4) and Lorraina (2). So, good thing I got lots of experience with little kids this past year! Also, Aunt Mary got replaced by Aunt Crystal. So, there is a lot of coming and going among the family. Their dynamic is totally different because they don't really distinguish between the nuclear and extended family at all. But they have been super nice and welcoming. I spend most of my time at training but I eat dinner with my host family and I've been going to church with them as well.

Food here at training has been very good. This town is particularly well known for pineapples so we usually have those with dinner every night. For lunch, some local mommies come & sell us food. Usually rice, beans, avocado salad, fish, more pineapple, and sometimes cake. Breakfast is a deep fried egg (how bad is palm oil for you?) and delicious baguettes with "vache qui rit" aka laughing cow cheese! Real cheese doesn't really exist here which is sort of a bummer.

Training is very extensive, from 8:30am to 4:30pm. There is specific information about teaching TEFL, French lessons, medical sessions and cross cultural adaptation.... uh oh its 6pm and we're getting kicked out of the training house I will write more tomorrow or the next day!! miss you everyone & thanks for following my blog!