My Friday:
1) This morning kicked off with our first French exam. I think is went pretty well. After we were done, we also had individual reflection meetings with our French teachers.
2) In the second half of the morning, we closed up our first module with a thematic discussion. Several of the lecturers came to join us. We discussed the topics we'd covered and any questions pertaining to them as well as the over arching question, "What is development?"
3) Our discussion went so long that we only had a very brief lunch break during which I went up the street and bought roasted peanuts and an ear of roasted corn from a lady on the street.
4) After lunch we had another dance class! It was just as much fun as last time and even more of a workout. We added on to the bottle dance that we learned last time and also learned about dances from the coastal regions.
5) At the end of the day, we discussed our 8am departure tomorrow morning for the beach town of Kribi (google it). We'll be in Kribi for 2 weeks. While we're there we will also be staying with families and holding out usual classes. We're going to Kribi so that we can visit specific organization but also so that we can visit and work with the Bagyeli people, a minority group that we will be studying. I won't have regular internet access during our stay there but I will probably post a few times during the next two weeks. I'm so excited to be on the beach, even if it's even hotter and more humid than it is in Yaounde.
1) This morning kicked off with our first French exam. I think is went pretty well. After we were done, we also had individual reflection meetings with our French teachers.
2) In the second half of the morning, we closed up our first module with a thematic discussion. Several of the lecturers came to join us. We discussed the topics we'd covered and any questions pertaining to them as well as the over arching question, "What is development?"
3) Our discussion went so long that we only had a very brief lunch break during which I went up the street and bought roasted peanuts and an ear of roasted corn from a lady on the street.
4) After lunch we had another dance class! It was just as much fun as last time and even more of a workout. We added on to the bottle dance that we learned last time and also learned about dances from the coastal regions.
5) At the end of the day, we discussed our 8am departure tomorrow morning for the beach town of Kribi (google it). We'll be in Kribi for 2 weeks. While we're there we will also be staying with families and holding out usual classes. We're going to Kribi so that we can visit specific organization but also so that we can visit and work with the Bagyeli people, a minority group that we will be studying. I won't have regular internet access during our stay there but I will probably post a few times during the next two weeks. I'm so excited to be on the beach, even if it's even hotter and more humid than it is in Yaounde.
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