I want to first began with some very important and exciting news coming from my homefront. My brother and his wife gave birth(she did all the work) Friday afternoon to a beautiful baby girl named Beth Anne Dubreuil. She is healthy and the whole family is extremely excited. Know I am officially UNCLE DAVID!!! This is a time when I wish I was not 6000 miles away.

So with that, let me began my recap of events. I wrote up a 3 page update yesterday, but my knee hit the keyboard, somehow, and erased it all. So I am not sure if the stories will be the same. I will do my best.

Quick story. I am Bamenda returning from a friends birthday not to far away. So Sundays here are fairly quiet, all the stores, markets and what have you are closed. The taxi driver who dropped me off at the cafe was telling me that earlier this afternoon a thief stole 400,000 cfa, which is about $800 +- dollars from a girl coming from Yaounde. So, apparently thieves are not well liked.And you will soon understand why. This girl began screaming and various people came running out to help her. Whoever this group of good sameritians were, they grabbed this guy, tied his arms behind his back. So at this point I am thinking "Thats great, way to help this poor girl." BUT! At this point the cops have arrived. Very important piece of info. The cops are now present. This guy is now handcuffed on the ground and a rope tied around his neck. The cops, as well as the local people, drench this man and gasoline and, yes, set him on fire. Then hang him in the middle of the street. This was this afternoon in Cameroon. I cant really respond much more than that.

On a lighter note,Life here in Cameroon the past week or so has very very uneventful. Except for the staff meeting on Monday and it seemed it went on until Tuesday. I was not informed about this meeting until I stopped by to say hi because I was passing by. No big deal. The meeting was suppose to start at 1000am and last about an hour or so. I arrive early being the responsible Peace Corps Volunteer that I am. 930am! We finally began the meeting at 1115am. No big deal. The first hour of the meeting was going over the minutes from last years last meeting. Pointless completly. None of it means a damn thing anymore. The second hour was spent discussing Wednesdays after school activities and which teacher will be the advisor to what club. This was new news to me. So, apparently I am the faculty advisor for the debate club. I do not like debating. The vocab knowledge is crap. You all see my grammar and spelling. Its awful. They want me to coach them in there english. Train wreck coming full speed. Derailing soon. The probelm is that the teachers do not want to be their on Wed and neither do the students. These students are adults with probably 35 children at home. The last thing they want to do is learn about the environment in club day. So, as I said this lasted awhile. So we are pushing 130 or so. Im starving. The fat guy in the back is looking like a ham dinner at this point. The next order of business, if we can call it that, focased on the importance of staff socials outside of school. Mind you, this means a party so we all can drink beer. Thats it.We named the names of the staff members who did not make the staff socials last year, and the higher up will make sure that this will not happen again this year. Important business, I guess. 230pm. Not so happy Peace Corps Volunteer. The agenda is not even half way done. The next hour and a half was a lecture on how to properly make lesson plans. Once again, mind you, these are all professional teachers. I am the only newbie here. Why the hell are we discussing how to teach a lesson to your class? 400pm. I hate the PC, Cameroon and everything else because I am starving. I looked for sharp objects to make the pain go away. Came up with nothing. Finally, 430pm the meeting is over. We have accomplished nothing. I mean jack squat. "Now its beer time" they say to me. Join us for a beer. Bad idea on an empty stomach but I went anyway.

My whole point of that day was to find out what classes I am teaching and various info, like when school starts? Time? Small Details. It is Sunday afternoon at 245pm, and school starts tomorrow at, I have no idea what time? Do you have a schedule? One might ask. Thats a negative. So I start teaching tomorrow with not a freaking clue what the hell is going on. Good Times!!

The mice are still out of control.

Go SOx!!

Thats it for now. I hope all is well with everybody these days. Congrats to my brother and sister in law on the new addition to the Dubreuil family. Take Care and remember... get your animals spade.

Lots of best wishes Dave