Time in Cameroon (by Emily, Age 9)

I have a lot to talk about since I have not been doing any Blogs recently. (Sorry!) On this blog I’ll be talking about two things.  When we first came to Cameroon, what the experience has been and also about a journey we made to Limbe.

When we first arrived at the airport in Douala, I was too tired to really look around and explore very much. After all it was nearly midnight! It was all just a blur in my mind. I do remember staying at the guest house though. After what we had seen we expected something not very nice, but to our surprise there were nice beds and blankets and mostly everything people have in America.

There was a priest with us. We were asking him all our questions. It was a rainy evening. We weren’t expecting the rain because we weren’t used to it. One of the questions we asked him was, “does it rain like this every day?” Luckily we got into our rooms just before the rain.  Unfortunately, in the morning we had to go through the rain with our luggage.

The next morning, we started our trip to Bamenda. It’s a six or seven hour drive. We used to think one hour was a long time. Can you imagine seven? It was long, but it was nice, there was a lot to see. Finally we entered Bamenda. We were so eager to see our new home that we nearly died of waiting. When we saw how big and nice it was we were very pleased. There were several beautiful rooms: The living room, the dining room, the kitchen, the two bedrooms (Which we all had to share) and the bathroom. Because we thought we needed to, we made an extension to our house: A hallway, a bedroom and another bathroom. (One bathroom is not really enough for five people.)

Since we moved to our house we have made a lot of adjustments to the house. Like:

New tiles, new bunk beds, new shelves, a new oven, an extension to the house, new curtains, new paint, new cups, silverware and other kitchen things.

There are several other things we did to make our house better and more comfortable. At one point, all five of us were sharing one room. My parent’s bedroom was being kind of broken down. Back then all three kids had to share one room and my parents got the other one. It was really crowded.   

Living in Cameroon has been a wonderful experience for me and my family. I have really loved living here and will be sad to go back. Though I do miss being in America.

Now I’ll talk about my trip to the beach. A few weeks ago we made a trip to the beach. It’s a six hour drive there, if you’re driving quickly and there’s not much traffic. When we finally started it was pretty late, at least later than we expected to leave. It was a long six hours but when we finally got to a city, the place where we were going to be spending the night with some friends, we were really happy.

After a night we went to Limbe, the beach. When we got there it was raining. We found a small, but nice hut, but found out that there were no working air conditioners or T.Vs. So we asked for another room but the beds weren’t made. Then finally we got another room that was bigger with a whole other room.

The beach was really fun. I enjoyed the waves and the sand. We dug some holes but there were some little biting flies so we didn’t do that very much. The waves are huge in Limbe.  It was really fun surfing the waves. I must have caught and rode at least twenty waves while I was there. Although there were some disadvantages like giant crabs and the long six or seven hour drive there I really enjoyed the trip to the beach.

I can’t wait to see you all when we come back to the US.