Garoua on Sunday

Its sunday and us trainees can finally feel like adults. We've been shuttled around in PC cars and vans for the past few weeks with virtually no freedom. Yesterday we were given our moto helmets and our bikes, so its time to get out and see the sights. That is of course, between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00pm. They keep us pretty buys with training, but sundays are our own. We're in the provincial capital of Garoua, where they have such luxuries as the internet and cell phone service. We got to talk to our parents, who informed us that its getting cold in Buffalo.

Food has been a big concern from your emails (mom), so what are we eating? mostly starches and carbs. We have rice and beans for lunch everyday, and for dinner, our family makes us either potatos or rice with some sort of tomato or spinach sauce. The food is alright, but Cameroonians LOVE to use oil. Our family goes through a litre of oil a day, no joke. Whenever i'm in the kitchen i try to tell them that in America Brian and I dont like to eat that much oil and they think we're crazy. Today we went to the market and bought some eggs and tomatos to cook for ourselves and when they saw that i only put one tablespoon of oil in the pan, they were all amazed. Other than that, the food is good. I do miss veggie burgers and cereal. Cold cereal. Anything cold would do actually.

Next time, i'll write up a post back in Pitoa and bring it with me so i can remember everything i wanted to say. Basically, all is well and we're slowly adjusting to the heat. We hear rumors that in december and january it is 68 degrees at night! Also that in March and april it gets up to 140 in the sun. Mom--France in march?? Think about it.

Love you all and miss you.
-j