Dschang tomorrow

Ok, I only have a few minutes so it's a short one.
Things here are going really well though. The language barrier is still hard, but always getting better. School is actually more intense than I anticipated but so far I'm getting everything done. I have to conduct three interviews with different people about their ethnicity though, and it's causing me a lot of grief. I just don't like the idea of walking up to a random person and trying to say in my barely decent french, "Hello, I am doing a project for school, can I ask you about your ethnicity?" gah! The thing is, I have to do two before we leave for Dschang tomorrow, because almost everyone there is Bamilike. Hah, which gives me about 2 hours, ahahahaah. Woops.

Anywho, tomorrow we move to Dschang for two weeks (another host family!) and then we go back to yaounde for two weeks, and then we move to Ngaoundere for another 2 weeks, and then we're on our own for a month to do independent research. I still am not sure of what I want to do, but I've been trying to e-mail NGOs here. I found a program that plants trees in forested regions to combat deforestation, so I think it'd be cool to shadow them! I also discovered that we can do creative projects, like I could learn how to make drums or something. There's just too many options.

Did I explain cabs here? I feel like people'd appreciate it. So these crazy little yellow cars just zoom around everywhere honking at people on the side of the rode. If one honks at you and you want a ride, you scream some landmark close to where you want to go, and if he can take you there he honks again and you hope in. It costs 200 cefa to go most places around yaounde (roughly 40 cents). Also, the drivers try to fit in as many people as possible, so I make sure to avoid the front seat so I don't end up with a stranger sitting on my lap. I also think that I've seen maybe 2 stop lights, and those were only in the craziest intersections of centre ville.

Oh! Really quick, yesterday was the fete de jeunesse parade, which means reps from a bunch of yaoundes school did a huge parade through downtown. Technically about 60 percent of cameroon's population is considered youth (but 35 year olds are youth). I have never seen so many school children in my life though. I took Michelle, my 14 year old sister with me, and we had a lot of fun. We walked home together afterwards and really bonded. Hah, her dad is a teacher at the same high school as her, sound familiar? I can't believe the education system here. All the schools are bursting at the seems. So many people are able to go to school, but the schools aren't able to support them. We hung out at Yaounde 1, one of the universities, and it was the same deal. Each lecture class has hundreds of students in it.

I think my time is about up, so I'm going to go before I get signed off.
Also, I'll try to get a picture of me doing laundry, because I think some of you would think it's funny. I'll try to upload pictures soon too, I just haven't had time yet.
I can't believe three weeks has already gone by...
I'm having a blast, but I am also really excited that it's going by quickly, because that just means I'll get to see Julian sooner!

Bye guys!
Love y'all!