Browsing Archive: January, 2014

Paper Airplanes and Website Updates

Posted by Antonia on Thursday, January 30, 2014,

Wednesday at Lycee could only have been more productive IF we had internet but since there was no internet (now marking one week) the students finished up all of their typing for the websites! This means, once the students are able to access internet, it will only take a few minutes of copying and pasting text to have their websites up to date.

Today, I wanted to start class out with a game because I realized that we don’t play too many games in class. I asked everyone...


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YAN's extra classes in full swing!

Posted by Antonia on Tuesday, January 28, 2014,
Last week I got approval from the Head of the Multi Media Resource Center and the Principal at Lycee Molyko two use the computer lab an extra two days per week!! This is fabulous news for YAN!

When I went to Lycee on Monday  I left a power-less house to meet with the Waste Management group. The electricity was out. Lycee and my apartment are on different ‘grids’ or ‘blocks’ or electricity so I don’t even think that there would be a problem at the schools. But sure enough, when I arri...

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Websites are up - Internet is down!

Posted by Antonia on Thursday, January 23, 2014,
On Monday, I did something that I hoped I would never have to do here in Cameroon or any other part of Africa..
I went to the dentist!
While I was traveling I had a filling come out. I needed to get it taken care of right away.
They gave me a temporary filling and I will be back next week for the permanent one.

He said that I will not be given Novocain!!

Wednesday's classes went absolutely wonderful! The students have come into 2014 with a great work ethic and motivation to do a great job in the...
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First Weekend Class of 2014

Posted by Antonia on Tuesday, January 21, 2014,
This Saturday YAN had the first ‘extra/make up’ class of the 2014 year!!

I was at the Buea Town cyber at 8:30am so I could meet with Charles, the manager, and get a bit more information on him to add on the YAN website as a local partner. Check it out HERE.

Around 9am two students arrived who needed help with their emails. Last week we had a lot of trouble in both classes signing into emails. Students had either written down their password incorrectly or never wrote it down at all. There wa...

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What have you learned so far in YAN?

Posted by Antonia on Friday, January 17, 2014,

Happy New Year YANers!!
2013 has come and gone but YAN is here to stay!


This year, YAN welcomed back its students with a fun and interactive 'scavenger hunt'. The purpose was to not only allow the students to review what they had learned last year, but it also helped me evaluate where their strengths and weaknesses were. At first, there was only about 5 students who showed up and I had worried that I should have posted a reminder on the school's message board. But soon, anothe...


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My Holidays (part 3)

Posted by Erin Wildermuth on Wednesday, January 15, 2014,

The Village: Rhumsiki (with pit stops in Mokolo, Kossehone, and Mogode)

 

My friend who had recently traveled here had recommended a guide for Megan and I for when we traveled. We had made arrangements while we were in Garoua and scheduled two days and one night in Rhumsiki hiking through the Mandara Mountains. We met our guide, Charles and our driver, Njida, Sunday afternoon to ask questions, get ourselves acquainted and discus details of the trip. We were scheduled to leave at 7am (whitem...


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My Holidays (part 2)

Posted by Erin Wildermuth on Wednesday, January 15, 2014,

Welcome to the Northern Regions of Cameroon
“Bonne journee, bonne soiree, bonne annee, bonne vie!”
“Have a nice day, have a nice night, happy near year, have a nice life”

The next leg of my holidays was with Megan, a Canadian who will spend nearly one full year in Buea working for an NGO called Human IS Right. When she gets back to Canada, she will attend the very same school and study the same subject my amazing Aunty Patty has recently completed – International Develop...


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My Holidays: Bumpy Dusty Roads, Mystical Twin Lakes, HOT DRY SUN, and Fulfude!! (part 1)

Posted by Erin Wildermuth on Monday, January 13, 2014,

The title of the blog post, Bumpy Dusty Roads, Mystical Twin Lakes, HOT DRY SUN, and Fulfulde, pretty much sums up everything I have been doing since my last days of teaching.

 

 

The first leg of my journey started in Douala. Douala is known to have the best night light in the entire country. Here you will find not only bars on every corner but also a slew of night clubs that are open until dawn and tons of cabarets that play some of the best music ever. Since we were going to Bange...


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