Wow, it has been a busy thirty days with lots of fun
events. The kids celebrated Youth Day on Feb 11th and Marched down
Commercial Avenue with a million other preschoolers through high school.
I celebrated Valentine’s Day with my HIV group with
a gift exchange. I got a “Caba” an
African dress from Monica who also happened to be the name that I drew. The
dress would look great if you are 9 months pregnant. But we all had a grand
time with food and drink and thanksgiving for life and health.
Women’s Day is a big event here. And a big “ta do” is made about the material
for the dress. We had a seamstress come
and fit us for dresses (Esther and Nicolette from Europe) And then with the
left over material I had a “down” (skirt) made for Jessica who came down with
me to the March.
We also went out to a village for a Bazaar at a
Parish run by a priest friend of ours from Brazil. The kids loved winning the prizes for games
(a cube of sugar, a cube of maggi, a safety pin and two matches were won in
addition to the balloons and candy). It was fun to get out of the city and see
life in the village.
We had a quick (early) St. Patrick’s Celebration
with the Martins and Burkett/Thoenes.
That same weekend we attended the SCA (Sunlight
Christian Academy) closing ceremonies for their two week educational session
for homeschoolers. They did some cute songs, memory verses and sang all the
bones in the body. We then got a steak and mashed potato dinner. YUM!!!
Josh’s birthday was a sleep over for four boys in
the sky house and a cook out with homemade marshmallows by Josh and hotdogs
that suddenly arrived at the butchery for the first time. The next day ten more children arrived for games, lunch and cake. It was so
fun to see Josh having fun being a kid.
Life in Cameroon is never dull. We are still learning so much about the
culture, spirituality and the hearts of the people here. All of us agree our
time here is flying by.
-Joy
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