Welcome Home Party

Last Sunday after the CLICKS meeting we attended a party sponsored by a new member. The occasion was for two reasons: the new member was celebrating his leaving Cameroon for America (Boston) to work in some service organization and his brother had just returned to Cameroon from Romania. He is a professional footballer there and his team just moved into the first division. The party was fairly standard. We arrived and they posted chairs for us to sit along the wall. Then we waited for someone to bring a crate of bottles and had some drinks. Here you buy cigarettes at roadside stands in singles. One guy made mad money by carrying a bag with cigs and plastic satchels of whiskey to sell to those that were drinking and smoking. A wise decision no doubt because I am sure he made some good money.

Also at the party was a friend, Clara. She is a very interesting person, with her parents based in Yaounde, the capital city, she is a personality for some television network and her boyfriend/fiance is a Nigerian film director. Her career has allowed her to interview some interesting peeople from Cameroon and next month she is interviewing Samuel Eto'o and Drogba (two widely known professional footballers from Cameroon and Ivory Coast respectively).

The party was pretty fun with some dancing and then calling it quits around midnight (no club that night because of work the next day...I gotta keep it professional).