A day in the life of a volunteer

What happens when a volunteer leaves Cameroon for good? They get back at all the vendors in the market who have pinched hundreds of cfa from our pockets. How to do that? Moving Sale!! Our good friend Michelle, who helped us with the transition to the big city, finished her service a few weeks back. Being a smalls business volunteer, Michelle never wants to waste a dime. So we dragged everything she couldn't fit into her bags on to her front "lawn". The idea came when another volunteer abandonded her house and its contents, which Brian and Phil took to a bar and sold. 15.000cfa in one afternoon at the bar, not too bad ($30). Brian acted as head vendor. Michelle and I were support. Here'swhat ensued:


Brian attracted a crowd by yelling his trademark "Chose! Chose!" (Things! Things!)





People started to gather, looking quizzically and the white man shouting on the street.





White man was insulted when people proposed outrageous prices:






If you can believe it, the hair dryer was a tough sell (but it sold for just under $10.00):

Getting rid of these huge leather poofy things was hard. No one wanted them because they were 'African'. They wanted white man things:

Towards the end of the day, almost finished:

And here's a look at what you can buy from little boys all over the city:

Candy, kola nuts, cigarettes, underwear:

Hard boiled eggs:

Need to weigh yourself?:

A shoe fix?:

Boiled peanuts:

and this is us 'renting' the meat man on the 4th of july.