The wind was blowing through my hair as I sat on the back of a motorcycle, my laptop wedged between me and the young boy on the bike. A quick, but dangerous way of traveling short distances. Most drivers are late teens to mid twenties; high school dropouts because they can’t pay the fees or […]
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my yearly visit
Here goes week 2 of my yearly visit. I have been spending alot of time at the high school giving students a chance to speak to an adult, that’s me, about school, problems, hopes and dreams but it’s not easy to get these kids to talk since most conversations between children and adults is […]
Week 1 in Fundong
WEEK 1 IN FUNDONG The only thing that seemed changed when I arrived in Fundong village, was the house I had lived in on each of my seven visits. It had a fresh coat of paint. The rocky dirt path was still a rocky dirt path with a bunch of broken wooden planks wedged over […]
the joy of traveling
TRAVELING HAS BECOME AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. airports stretch for miles, passport country always seems like a marathon walk and security is unpleasant and unfriendly.. At the airport in Frankfurt, i got a wiff of Germanic obedience. Using miles I was routed from Seattle to Cameroon via Frankfurt and Istanbul. The Lufthansa flight took off 3 […]