It doesn't digest, you know...

Apparantly, you can only upload one image per day on these computers. So here it is:

This is us on the corn in our house. Its been there for a few weeks and i'm not sure exactly what is going on with it. We ate some the first few days, but since then, I havent seen anyone eat any. Mostly its just in the way.

Today is Sunday, market day in Pitoa. Usually on Sundays we sleep in (until 7) and read books for a few hours in the morning. Then we go to the market or into Garoua for lunch. This morning we were up before 7, read until about 8.30, and then I decided to go to the market with my sister to get some pagne and some food for breakfast.

Shopping for pagne is not as easy as you would think. Because we are white, people will inevitably charge us a rediculously high amount. You're supposed to bargin with them and get eventually get a pagne for somewhere around 3-5,000 cfa. Apparantly all the ones that i liked started at 16,000 cfa. I could never get them to go below 7,000. After a half hour of arguing with people and being told to pay more, I decided to give up. I also wasnt sure how much the pange was supposed to cost. My sister kept saying that it was a bit expensive, but that i should buy it if I liked it.

After giving up and buying avacados and bread instead, we ran into my mother (a dressmaker and pagne expert). When she heard how I wouldnt buy any pagne because it was too expensive, she immediately took my by the hand and we went straight to a vendor who she knew (i assume). I showed her some fabric that I liked and we got a fair deal on them. I paid 5,000cfa for a beautiful blue piece of pagne. The other vendors were telling me similar fabric was 12.000 and wouldn't go below 7,000 for me. Now we just have to have Mama make it into a beautiful outfit. I think this time Brian is getting a shirt AND matching pants. If there's enough fabric left over, i'll get a dress or a skirt.

Update on the Goat: when I posted the photo of the goat a few weeks back, i mentioned how i wished that he would maybe not come home one night. Well, a few nights later, he stopped coming back. Now we have no goat. I have no idea what happened to him, but I can't say i'm too dissapointed. No more goat screams through the night and no more (much less at least) goat poop in our house.

My parents have been asking what they can send for us. I'll just say that if you are thinking of sending anything, please consider news stories, current events, magazines, etc. I know when they get here, they'll no longer be current, but its better than nothing. We're pretty starved for news. Gatorade packets or iced tea/lemonade packets for water would be nice. Also, photos of home would be great. I brought a bunch with me, but I still have room for more in my album. Pretty much anything we recieved would make our day. Some volunteers have started recieving mail and it gets all of us pretty giddy.

Or, a good old fashioned email will do.......