Introduction

Ayyy Greetings from the Motherland...

I created this blog to tell the stories as they go down and avoid long email lists and the like.

Theres much to tell but I'll keep it short. This is my third time in Cameroon, sponsored by an engineering program (ETHOS) at the University of Dayton. Cameroon is a country on the west coast of Africa. I stay in one of the two anglophone provinces, the other eight are francophone. The people here talk pidgin however, and that makes things interesting to say the least Theres way to much to tell of the history and current situations in Cameroon, so if you are interested google it.

The first two years I spent assessing the situations here and learning of opportunities for future civil engineering students to work here. I also spent a great deal of time getting to know the people and experienceing anything I could get the chance to do, just as any other Cameroonian would do. That included traveling to rural villages, playing football (soccer) daily, drinking great beer (brewed in country) and visiting the night club (thats a whole other story). This year, I am working (alongside some other students) to constructe a water supply system for a village outside the city where I stay, Kumba.

So this blog will serve as a template for project news as well as document some of my antics around town because after three years, as you can imagine, I am fairly well known as the "white man" who just keeps coming back.