Tuesday

Monica sits down to eat food from the
maman

1. Today was our last French class of the semester! The program is organized so that we get a full credits worth of French but with all of the classes concentrated at the beginning of the program. 
2. Our second class of the day was titled “Youth’s Opinion on Women’s Roles and Place in the Society.” Two university students joined us for a discussion about how they perceive women in Cameroonian society today. It was very interesting because they’re view was much more optimistic (unrealistic?) than Monday’s lecturer, Dr. Margaret Niger-Thomas, who is a professor in Women’s Studies and works for the government in the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Family.
3. I bought lunch from the maman up the street; les haricots avec du riz (beans and rice).
4. After eating, Cora and I headed to the local public school where we are conducting the majority of our research project to pick up the surveys we had left with the guidance counselors. We also got a chance to sit down and chat with two guidance counselors and a computer sciences teacher. 
5. At home, I sat down and recorded our survey results on my computer in a spreadsheet and began to look at trends. It wasn’t that hard, except when I couldn’t read a student’s handwriting- which was often.
   
   

   

   Cora speaks with the head guidance counselor, our
   contact at the Lycee de Tsinga.

   

   The local public school.