Tag Archive: Peace Corps

To continue my mission to educate as many persons with disabilities as possible about HIV and AIDS, I took a trip to Bali, a village located about 15 minutes by car from Bamenda.  In Bali, I met with a group of 12 persons with disabilities to give an education on HIV prevention. Before I began the […]

Last October, I did a Nutrition Workshop for a small group of persons with disabilities.  When doing workshops on various health topics, I normally give each workshop more than once so that I can reach out to as many people as possible.  However, for this workshop, I did it only once because the workshop produced unsatisfying […]

When I was on the plane heading to Cameroon from Brussels for the very first time last September 2014, I was sitting next to a very quiet woman who was also a soon-to-be Peace Corps Volunteer.  I was exhausted and so, I selfishly didn’t take a moment to converse with her to get to know […]

When I first arrived in Cameroon and I was living with a host family, all family members had a phone that could only make and receive calls and send and receive texts.  When I revisited them one year later, every one of them had a smartphone.  My host father had joined Facebook.  They were all […]

On Christmas Day this past December, I was at Hilda’s house and Hilda and I were conversing various topics ranging from current issues to everyday cultural differences to travel plans.  When I shared my travel plans to Kribi, one of the beaches in Cameroon, with Alex, I shared that there is a limited number of […]