A Slice of Life!

Well Cameroon is fabulous as always! It has been 5 weeks now that we've been here learning French and trying not to stick out too terribly bad. We visited a current volunteer this week and another health center...we are learning tons and staying super busy!!!
On a more exciting front we had bike training last week and on our inaugural ride around the finely crafted roads here in western Cameroon...I fell. Yeah, not a big surprise I know...however it ended in a trip to the hospital here in the thriving metropolis of Bangante and getting the first stitches of the group. So ok basically I managed to fall on my bike brake handle which angrily inserted itself into my upper thigh. It is going to be a pretty gruesome scar but on the whole was really not as bad as it sounds/looked. I go back to the hospital tomorrow to get my stitches removed and everything is clearing up well. What are the odds? Ha...but what a great story right? Yeah I got this gnarly scar mountain biking in Africa...
Anyway things are going great! We find out our posts in 5 days!! And then in 7 days we get to travel to our respective sites to meet people and peek around. Keep your fingers crossed that I will be able to have internet at my site! Anyway I must be going...but I love you all! I'll write again when I can!
Love from Cameroon!!
<3 Amanda

All the way from rainy Cameroon!

Ok so it is Saturday afternoon here in the great country of Cameroon!! I am mooching internet off of a current volunteer which will actually let me send things...pretty amazing!! So it is the end of week 3 for our stage which means only 7ish weeks left in training. We are so busy in class 6 days a week that it really is flying by! We have classes in French, Cross Culture, Technical Training, and Medical stuff mostly. We took a field trip yesterday to the local health clinic in our tiny village of Bamena which was really interesting. We are having a blast!!
We are currently living with host families to help us assimilate into Cameroonian life! My family is amazing and really patient with me! My parents are both teachers and my mom is also a businesswoman who makes and sells bonbons...yeah who'd a thunk I'd go to Cameroon with Peace Corps and run the risk of gaining weight!! hehe! But yeah host family life is interesting and hard but quite fun as well!!
Anyway I am having a blast! I'm in the happening town of Bangante right now which is where the agro volunteers in our stage live. We got the night off and are going to hang out and have a shindig tonight in celebration of hopefully a Cameroonian win today!! So it looks like its time to try to find the host family house of our agro friends and get ready to throw down for a little while!! I will post again soon...and we just heard the screams meaning the game has begun! Let's go Indominable Lions!! Bon Soir!!
<3 Amanda