Limbe and More

Well, it certainly has been an eventful past week. This past friday, we left Yaoundé for Limbe, a coastal paradise in the Southwest region of the country. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Resort, which was pretty nice, at least by Cameroonian standards. It even had a pool, and swings! (which we took FULL advantage of!). The next day we woke up early and took drove to Buea (pronounced Boy-ya), a smaller town literally on the foot of Mount Cameroon, the 13,000 foot active volcano, the tallest in Western Africa. We met this amazing artist named Max Lyonga (I think that was his name, at least), who owns his own studio/shop in the shadow of the mountain. His work was gorgeous, though very expensive. It is something I am considering saving up for, however, because we want to come back to Limbe/Buea later on in the trip. The rest of the day was spent at the black sand Seme Beach, frolicking in the waves and trotting on horses up and down the side of the beach. It was, without doubt, the most beautiful place I've yet been in Cameroon, and I am looking foward to going back (and possibly climbing Mount Cameroon!)

In other news, it's been just about a month since we've been in Cameroon, and boy have things changed. First of all, when we first got here, I felt like time went by incredibly slowly, and I couldn't quite get myself grounded. However, it's been a month, and even though I have learned so much about myself, about Cameroon, about the french language, I still can't believe that so much time has passed already! While I realize that, no matter what people say about Africa Time, this trip will go by quicker than I would want, I am sure that i will make the very best of it.

Well, i must be going. I am working on my first homework assignment of the semester, a reflection for my Orality, Landscape and Creative Writing Class. It's not too hard, but after so long of not doing academic work, it's a bit hard to motivate myself haha.

a bientôt!
Andrew