Quick Note

So I finally found internet and that is beautiful. I am sitting here at a Catholic mission in garoua and the internet is working. It only let me put one picture up on the blog so that is going to get interesting. So to find this interent we convince a nun to open the missions computer lab - which is very much closed on sundays - and we figured out how to connect them all the the network. That isn't the funniest part of our internet journey though. so first, it took me 3 motto rides to get internet. came to one place and it was closed until 2pm. It was about 11:30 at this time. walked all the way back to the center of town to where I thought I would find some other friends (it was just me my friend Phil at this time) and we did find other people - 4 Nassaras to be exact. Together we all went to a place 3 of them had seen ont he way into the city. Well 3 of us got there (not me) and the other three of us were taken to the Peace Corps office. They just saw white people with helmets and i guess wanted to take us home. when we made it clear we didn't want to be there they took us directly to the UN human rights office. Lovely. All white people places. We finally just decided to go to the catholic mission and hope they were open. They weren't but they opened for us - the group of "nassaras".

This morning I went on another 6:30 am bike ride and this time I biked past the Chadian refugee camp that is down the road from us. strange that I am biking distance to a refugee camp. It is huge though. Tons of people living in tents and such. We have to do a cross culture presentation (30 minutes in French) at the end of the training and I am going to ask if I can do it about the refugee camp. We shall see!

So this weekend has been awesome. Saturday we got to go to a soccer game - that's right a soccer game. It was the best regional team in Cameroon against the best regional team in Zimbabwe. These teams had already met in Zimbabwe once and Cameroon had won. This Saturday Cameroon killed them 4-0. It was awesome. We bought the cheap seats and sat with all the locals, which was where the party was at but also where the sun beat down on you. We had to sit on things to keep our asses from burning - but it was beautiful and I loved each and every minute of it. Garoua scored in the first minute of the game and they took control from then on. It got me really excited for the World Cup in 2010!!! Prior to the soccer game I had another amazing experience - I found something in the super market that I had predicted I would find. Mom and Sam know and other people will at Christmas so I don't want to give anything away. But, I got to eat another delicious omlet with plantains and this time the omlet came with onions and tomatos too. Honestly fabuolus.

This weekend I have recieved text messages from Joey, Jensen, mom, Sam, and my grandmother. Courtney - I know you are in Pittsburg so you get a break and Sandy I only told Jensen to say hey to you so I suppose you get a break to. I do love hearing from people though :)

Today I greatly amused a group of children by taking the pate de arachide (home made peanut butter they sell here - go ahead and be jealous) and a banana and putting it on my baguet. The kids laughed and laughed and laughed. I was also eating yogurt witha straw and basically they thought that was the funniest thing they had ever seen. I was only too thrilled to amuse them.

Well aside from being insane hot - life is good! I will find out my placement on October 30th - then I have a halloween party with the other trainees the next day which is excited but my costume will be interesting with my lack of options but, you know, I will be as creative as possible. Then, November 1st I start my site visit to the place I will be living the next two years! Cannot wait! Lets hope my phone works better there and you can all talk to me while I am there!

Alright, time to post while the posting is good!!! Love and miss you all!!!