Tag Archive: Peace Corps

Yesterday marked exactly one month since I swore in as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I’m not going to lie. I have faced a lot of difficulties and frustrations during my first month at post. It was a time when I finally for the first time realized and understood the challenges and frustrations that Peace Corps […]

Because I’m one of those people who get mosquito bites very easily, I have been determined since arriving in Cameroon to try to get as little to no mosquito bites. Malaria is something that I definitely do not want to have during my service as I often hear how it will make one person very […]

Cameroon is a country where modernization can seem so out of sync. Cell phone signal is far more accessible than water. Most people who do not have direct access to water in the home own a cell phone and can talk freely in the rural areas. Many cell phones sold in Cameroon can hold two […]

A Peace Corps Medical Officer who has been working for Peace Corps Cameroon for the past more than 20 years said to the trainees, “If you are in Cameroon, you are blessed with food because you have variety of food.”  She is certainly right.  Cameroon has a wide variety of dishes due to colonization, learning […]

Last Friday, Ruth, my counterpart, took me to her weekly radio show on people with disability that she does every Friday with Hilda Bih, a Cameroonian woman with disability who was a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow.  I went there only to observe.  However, Hilda pulled me in and asked me a few questions about my […]