living in Cameroon

So, its been a long time again since i've written on here. I moved to Cameroon. A country right next to Chad. We are just four hours south of Chad's capital, N'djamena. So far so good! I feel quite blessed actually. There is a hospital mission here in this village called Meskine. They are renting our team houses until we can get into Chad. The houses are great and much better than anything we could have hoped for (in my opinion). Plus the hospital "people" arranged for us to have house help when we arrived. With out the house help this would have been a totally dificult transition, so I can't complain.

Ben helping our house helper with the

laundry.

There is still a lot of work to do of course. I bake all the bread we eat. There isn't a lot of food avalible here in the village so we have to go to a near by larger city for it. When we go there its kind of a stressfull setting. You go through stands in 100 + degrees, hoping to find what you are looking for. With a slightly stressful situation like that its not suprising that in the three weeks we've been here we've had to keep going back. I feel like I've got a ton of stuff when we leave, but turns out thats just because it felt like a ton of stuff. Really I only had like three meals worth! I'm getting better at it though. I also don't have a concept of how much I need of certain things. turns out that when you make everything from scratch you go through a lot more salt, sugar, flour and oil than normal. I think I've gone through a gallon of oil in the last three weeks. In France I went through a gallon of oil a year, maybe less. I never realized you had to use it in bread, in your bread pan, to cook all your veggies, for meat (since the meat dosn't really have much fat in it) etc.

I'll attach a couple picts and call this good. I hope I can come up with something a little more interesting for my next blog! sorry everyone. I think that stress is hampering my creativity!

Ben playing with the kids who share the same yard as us.