…..finished up the second week of training and, for the first time ever in Africa, I had a female trainer in the program. You don’t see a lot of female drivers in Cameroon—some, but not a lot—and she held her own really well. In Chad and several other countries around here, they just flat-out don’t allow women to drive.
This was a good group but very difficult to work with since none of them really spoke English very well. I have limited materials in French so we were able to cross-reference and overall I think we did OK. I’ve found that many people can read English much better than they can speak it.
It’s snowing right now in Friendswood but it’s not in Douala. We’re having 94-95 degree highs here with high humidity. There are some forecasts next week for scattered showers but right now it’s just clear skies and very hot weather.
Right now they have the draw for next year’s World Cup on TV right now. That’s where they choose the groups of countries that will be competing in the soccer tournament next year in South Africa. The tournament doesn’t even start for seven months but CNN claims eight times more people world-wide watch the draw than watch the U.S. Super Bowl.
I’ve got the coming weekend off—no plans—but I’m really tired so I’m looking forward to down time. I’m still agitating for a trip to the beach next weekend but they seem to be resisting it. We’ll see……
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