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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Church choir
We are going to have just a few more entries to this blog, now that we can upload photos and video.
In Limbe, we attended a church service which was really interesting. At the end of the four-hour church service (!) the choir led the way out the door and I got a little snippet of their harmonies on video.
In Limbe, we attended a church service which was really interesting. At the end of the four-hour church service (!) the choir led the way out the door and I got a little snippet of their harmonies on video.
Monday, January 21, 2008
West African Dancing Fool
Okay, so here is the much-awaited video of Keith on a dark stage in Yaounde. The dancers have finished performing and one dancer has selected an audience member to come on stage and dance with her. Being the only white people there, we were easy targets.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Food for thought
So we are back in Canada now. We drove home from New Jersey yesterday. Of course we had to go through a snow storm in New York about 15 miles from the border to get here.
We have talked about food a few times on this blog and in general the food in Cameroon, although sometimes strange to us, was usually pretty healthy – grilled fish, bread and fresh fruit.
Friday night after we got in, we went out to eat with Deb’s Aunt Jo. I had been craving a steak as we had not had a lot of beef in our diet over the last three weeks. The ladies suggested gourmet burgers. I could live with that, so off we went.
The menu was mouth-watering and the large 20 ounce beer fit right in with my Cameroon beer diet. I ordered a big stack of onion rings to start. A deep fried stack of goodness seemed like the perfect way to start the evening. Then the burgers came. Mine had more deep fried onions on it with a peppercorn sauce and lots of melted cheese. Mmmmm… lots of greasy goodness.
I don’t think that Deb and I were out of the door before that big ball of grease in our stomach hit us like a lead weight. We were chewing on antacids for desert.
There were very few overweight people in Cameroon and we had a lot of time during our seven hour drive home to re-enjoy our gas-producing burgers from the previous night and to reevaluate our diet. We ate fairly healthy before but there is room for improvement and hopefully this blog entry will be a reminder for me when I get the old greasy burger cravings.
We have talked about food a few times on this blog and in general the food in Cameroon, although sometimes strange to us, was usually pretty healthy – grilled fish, bread and fresh fruit.
Friday night after we got in, we went out to eat with Deb’s Aunt Jo. I had been craving a steak as we had not had a lot of beef in our diet over the last three weeks. The ladies suggested gourmet burgers. I could live with that, so off we went.
The menu was mouth-watering and the large 20 ounce beer fit right in with my Cameroon beer diet. I ordered a big stack of onion rings to start. A deep fried stack of goodness seemed like the perfect way to start the evening. Then the burgers came. Mine had more deep fried onions on it with a peppercorn sauce and lots of melted cheese. Mmmmm… lots of greasy goodness.
I don’t think that Deb and I were out of the door before that big ball of grease in our stomach hit us like a lead weight. We were chewing on antacids for desert.
There were very few overweight people in Cameroon and we had a lot of time during our seven hour drive home to re-enjoy our gas-producing burgers from the previous night and to reevaluate our diet. We ate fairly healthy before but there is room for improvement and hopefully this blog entry will be a reminder for me when I get the old greasy burger cravings.
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