Shanks steps in
Cameroon #11
Hi! Sarah here. The reason I’m writing because
we’ve gotten a few letters asking about me. Thus, I’m
writing.
Lot’s of things have been happening. The
highlight of my kid brain is the fact we found 2
hedgehogs. We kept them in a little box and fed them
bugs. Pierre (Our guard.) caught big inch long ∠inch
wide bugs for them. Now, I’m not a girl that gets
grossed out by bugs, but when you see a can full of
big wiggling hopping bugs, you can get a little
grossed out.
I ended up letting the hedgehogs go.
Unlike my mom and dad, I have no great medical
stories. I don’t like the hospital for multiple
reasons. One, I think blood is cool! But 1 part of my
brain disagrees. I faint. I can’t explain it! I like
seeing blood, really! But I just get faint.
The other reason is because babies’ cries make me
nauseas. (I never really liked babies.) Trust me,
there are lots of babies in the hospital.
And the other reason I don’t like the hospital
is because seeing people so sick also makes me
nauseas.
Mostly, I do the staying home and praying part.
My day is made up mainly of home school, (Where
I teach myself until Mom gets home.) reading, and
drawing. So unless you want to hear that 109,786
divided by 10 = 10,978 r6, I’ll skip that part of my
life here.
I’ve made a few friends here even thou I can
only speak some French. I have learned that they like
Duck- Duck- Goose a lot. The 3 year olds to the 19
year olds play it with us.
Mainly the boys play with us. I think the girls
are shy, or they are just doing too much work. The
little children do very interesting jobs. Like the 3
year olds taking care or a big herd of cows, all with
horns at least 5 inches long. It’s kinda funny seeing
a boy 2 feet high hitting a cow with a stick and the
cows’ 5 feet high!
Many other funny things you see here are goat’s
tide to the tops of mini buses as they speed past. Big
satellite dish tied to a motorcycle ( Moto’s as they
say here.) with the man sitting in it as he drives by.
Bulls walking past our house. And ducks, goats, sheep,
donkeys, and an occasional horse in the road. We know
a man with 50 children! True story. There is only one
way describe Africa. Crazy.
One of the biggest problems I have here is not
enough books. I go through books fast. I read 315 page
books in 1 day! I’m so desperate for books that I’m
ready to read that one book I found here from the last
missionaries, The Basic Fundamentals of Golf.
The other draw back is not enough cheese or
chocolate. Sigh… Chocolate…
I like chocolate. Who doesn’t?
Africa is a different world. The mountains,
animals, plants, houses, weather, electricity, sand,
customs, cloths, weather, music, illnesses,
treatments, languages, food, bugs, people, all are so
different. Life here is more interesting than you can
imagine unless you’ve been here. We have been here for
about a month and are not yet settled down. We miss
every thing we left behind. Please pray we do well
here and start feeling comfortable.
Sincerely,