An Update

For the past week I have been very busy and the Internet has been crap, a dangerous combination for a healthy blog. So here is just a quick update.

We had another day off and decided on a trip to Bamenda to go fabric shopping, as we can’t come to Africa without getting an outfit hand made. It was lots of fun picking out the different fabrics, then getting some trimmings. I decided on a nice blue and red fabric, whilst Chris went for the OTT African look. Later in the week Evangeline, our secretary at BAWA took us to her tailor. She was a lovely women and had known Evangeline since primary school. We always loved what she wore so we felt happy to try her out.  When we walked in she presented a catalogue for me to look through, and after I had decided on what I wanted, a tunic and a dress, it was time to get measured. We collect them next week and hopefully everything will be perfect and I’ll have some nice pictures to show everyone back home.

Evangeline

The next the morning we found out that some of the local farmers came to set up a nursery in the back of the house to plant the seeds that I brought from England to help the Cameroonian bees, this was so nice as I thought that they had forgotten but it just takes a bit of time.

The day started with me deciding to finally do my soil testing. I decided the best place would be outside BAWA and I was soon joined by the technicians and even a few locals who all wanted to know what on earth I was doing. I then began to describe a bit about soil mechanics that I don’t think translated very well.

Then we were off to the Ecotourism centre to help the youth guys build a Tippy Tap for Chris’ sanitation project.