Well another month passes, and now there are less than 6 months to go, suddenly I am starting to run out of time to do everything.
Work wise it has been a slightly frustrating month. Everyone has been tied up with closing out 2007 in the manual system, which as you can imagine is a very tedious task. So to a degree I have been spinning my wheels a little - no one is available to do much work on the new system. Still, it continues ok in parallel run in the 3 branches and the plan remains that this month we hit two more branches so I will be off and travelling around for a couple of weeks at the end of the month I hope.
Another welcome distraction was a VSO course for the best part of a week, which took me away from Bafoussam and it was good to meet up with some of my fellow volunteers. It was a real morale booster hearing about some of the great things they have achieved in all sorts of areas from AIDS support to bee keeping – look out for the first batch of
There was also the RIC “start of year” party, which will typical Cameroonian timing finally happened on the 18th! To compound this, it was scheduled to start at
The reason for the musical title btw – try singing it – was that whilst in Bamenda for the VSO course I found a shop that sells all sorts of “European” goodies – at exorbitant prices by Cameroonian standards – so I treated myself to a Toblerone, a Bounty, a packet of Scottish shortbread and the big treat – a large tin of John West’s best wild Canadian salmon – which is the first salmon I have had since leaving the UK – it was marvellous. Its amazing how a simple treat can work wonders!
Finally, thanks if you have got this far, I know I have been away for a long time, and it was my choice, but it would be really great to hear how 2007 treated you and what plans you have for 2008 – news from home has dried up a bit recently and I am feeling a bit homesick – so drop me a line when you have a moment!
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