Bogo, Cameroon. My post. My soon to be home. My life for the next two years.
I know almost nothing about it. I'll be the first health volunteer there though they have had an agricultural volunteer before. It's a fairly large town compared with a lot of other posts. I won't have water. I should have electricity. Might have internet. It will be hotter than the blazes of hell, as in a high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit. In the shade apparently.
It's really close to the capital of the region--the Extreme North--called Maroua. You might actually be able to find information about that place. Feel free to clue me in via email. I won't actually see anything till I move there in two weeks.
I'ma have to learn another language on top of French called Fulfulde. That should be fun. And... yea. Basically, from everything I can tell, all systems are go. The plan is coming along nicely.
I should be an African cowboy before you can blink.
Dale, my Daughter, Erin Canter is my Daughter...and I heard that she too is going to Bogo! She said 2 other folks going too...perhaps you are one of these companions? She's into agri-resource management. Wow, hot isn't the right term for 130 in the shade...though I do see it 81 at midnight tonight...
ReplyDeleteGood luck, and if you see Erin...tell her 'Dad says hello'...
There's not even a wikipedia entry on this place! I'm not amused....
ReplyDeleteYou KNOW that BOGo is small when THIS BLOG shows up on page 2 of Google's search results!! there is some decent photos of it on a previous PCV's facebook. check out Beth Week's FB - https://www.facebook.com/weeks.beth?fref=pb
ReplyDeleteYou wanted an adventure, I think you're going to get one! Make sure you wear a hat - reliable access to sunscreen is probably a little much to ask and you look like the burn badly type. I know you'll do fine and you'll do a lot of good work there. I hope you can post again after you get settled.
ReplyDeleteElena