I have a new postmate! Her name is Adele and she's from France. She just arrived while I was in Yaounde doing training for the new volunteers. She is at the Catholic Hospital being a midwife. Here, my neighbor Bridgitte is braiding her hair.


Making yogurt. Well, Dada already made the yogurt, I am just helping to put it into plastic bags the night before the market. The yogurt is really good and most importantly, cold.

Eating couscous and sauce.


Everybody decked out for Fete de Muton. This is the big Muslim celebration which occurs 40 days after the end of Ramadan. If people have enough money, they slaughter a sheep. And then you eat a lot of sheep.

Most akward photo ever. Mambih's "copine" (girlfriend) feeding him food while I totally lose it laughing while sitting between the two of the them. Did I really come all the way to Africa just to be the third wheel on people's dates... Any PDA is strictly taboo in this country... but this somehow is totally appropriate?