Just some random notes...

Ben has some good friends that work for Doctors Without Borders (Bea, who is French, and Yves, who is Swiss). Yves is a logistician and had told Ben he would help him get a job with them as a chauffer, but he had to wait for a space to open up. Yves was then sent for a three week training in Belgium. In his absense, the Cameroonian that works under him went and hired another friend and member of his tribe/ethnic group/ whatever you want to call it, the Bamilike. It wasn't even until recently that Yves noticed the fact that all of the chauffers are Bamilike and friends and relatives of this man. And that is how life is in Cameroon. This man takes his friends that don't even have the qualifications and gives them work, without even consulting Yves, which means that Ben is just out of luck, too bad, so sad. It's a frustrating way to live.

School will be starting in September, and slowly, prices for school supplies are creeping up. Funny how in the US there are sales all over the place, and here they raise prices.

I still see and randomly hang out with some Peace Corps people, I'm still looking for a job, and still looking for a house. Same old same old. Ben's younger brother Coco is in town for vacation, so it's been fun hanging out with him. I'm having good and bad days here, but it's all part of the process and I'm determined to make it here--as long as I can get some money somewhere!!!