10 Things I Did This Weekend

SATURDAY:

1. We had classes today which made the week feel just that much longer. Initially Saturday was supposed to be just an end of module Thematic Discussion however, a lecturer had to postpone so we had classes all morning. 
2. After classes Khalilah, Danny, Elias and I went out to lunch as a restaurant that makes pretty good omelets. 
3. When I got home the Cameroon-Sierra Leone soccer match was on. The game ended in a 0-0 tie between the teams. Technically the game was supposed to be a home game for Sierra Leone however, because of ebola, Cameroon said that they would only play if Sierra Leone’s team traveled to Cameroon. Even if you hadn’t known ahead of time, it was very evident that a soccer match was taking place in the city. All day people on the streets were wearing their Lions paraphernalia. People were wearing silly Cameroon hats and walking around with flags. While at lunch, we watched a man attempt to get into a taxi with a massive Cameroonian flag, which we ended up having to hold out the window even though it dragged on the ground 
4. I slept TERRIBLY Friday night so I was exhausted all of Saturday and just generally not feeling well so I took a solid nap in the late afternoon
5. Elias invited all of the other students, and some of our host siblings, over to his house to hangout in the evening. I’ve been on the outside of his house and knew that it was incredibly big, but I hadn’t realized that it was as quite as big and as fancy as it is. Elias had never even been in the living room space we spent most of the evening in. It started raining in the later evening, just as I was about to head home. Luckily, the walk between my house and Elias’s isn’t that long. I was still soaked by the time I got home. 

SUNDAY:

1. Sundays are great because they’re the one day I get at least an hour of extra sleep!
2. After getting up I started right in on school work that continued all day long. I was not the only one, every single other person in the house, my host mom wasn’t home, spent the entire day doing school work. Glendon, who, at 9, has a shorter attention span than the rest of us and considerably less homework mentioned several times how boring we were all being. 
3. I took a laundry break around 1:30 since it was so nice and sunny out in hopes that my clothes would get some solid drying time today.
4. Last week a chicken appeared on our balcony. By appeared I mean that someone bought it and put it there while I was at school. For the first day it was sitting in a basket with its legs tied together and then after that, it had a sting tied to one legs attaching it to the balcony. I dislike chickens and this one was hanging out making a less on the balcony. One day I did laundry and it was very much in my way. Not to mention that it would crow loudly between 4am and 5am every morning waking all of us up. Friday the chicken got moved to outside near the parking lot area of the apartment building, just under our living room balcony. Today, Gael was feeding it by dropping food off the balcony and a bunch of the peacocks that roam the neighborhood came by and started stealing its food. We would chase them off every now and then but got sick of it throughout the afternoon. That is until, I heard Glendon call for Gael saying, “Gael, the peacocks attacked the chicken.” I’m pretty sure the chicken it ok. It was one of those moments during the day that I thought, “I’m a long way from home.”
5. I finished the novel we’re reading for French class, “Une Vie de Boy.”