My daily-life routine

Now it's been a really long time since I've been writing... Earlier I've written when something special has happened, but now I want to give you an overview of my everyday life routine:

First of all we use to eat dinner everyday at 12:15 o'clock (except Fridays) :) Really good, and just like Norwegian food!

Mondays:

French course from 10-12 o'clock.

 

We work at Rainbow Orphanage from 14-17/18 o'clock, teaching English and playing with the children. There are 21 children between 4-15 years old in the orphanage, and it's run by a Korean missionary. The orphanage has their own school for the children, who come from really poor families (most of them living in villages far a way), or have lost at least one of their parents. It's really nice just being with them, and seeing how much they enjoy that we come. Each time we arrive there, and when we return, they come running to hug us and greet us!

Tuesdays:

Our days free from other work, so that we can read the books in the curriculum for Hald, and write the exercises. Before the 10th of December I delivered three book reports and one infield-rapport, on about 2500 word (the last time, I've worked a lot with this). I chose to write about witchcraft, and the question I wanted to answer, was: "How do young, Christian Cameroonians relate to witchcraft?" It's very interesting to have interviews about this, because here witchcraft is a part of many people' everyday life. 

From 18-20:30 I attend choir practice with the choir "Gospel Singers". We always start singing outside, and go inside when it's becoming darker. While we sing, we do a lot of movements. That's never easy, but I think I manage it better now ;) When the practise is finished there's always half an hour with talking about discipline and other things the leaders think are negative in the choir, and that's always very boring... 

  

Here we practice with the choir. The buildings are boarding schools to Collège Protestant. And this is how the students dry their clothes ;)

Wednesdays:

Work at Sentre Socio Ménager (husmorskolen) from 9-12 o'clock. I've English classes from 9-10 o'clock, and computer skills from 10:30-12 o'clock. That's a challenging, but exciting work. I think it's going better and better, because now I've learnt more how the pupils learn best, and how to handle them (for example send them out of the classroom if they talk during a test, and how to control that they're not cheating). 

Shocking! On our way to Sentre Socio we saw motorcyclists in front of us with helmets! Just had to take pictures of this! ;)

From 14-16 o'clock we attend French course. 

Thursdays:

I work at the EELC (Église Evangelique Lutherienne au Cameroun) Direction Sentral in the church (kirkekontoret). There I work for an organisation called Fèmmes Pour Christ (kvinner for Kristus). From 8-8:30 there's a devotion. Than all the people (ca. 20) working there meet to sing psalms/songs, read in the Bible and one person has a short sermon. From 8:30-12:00 I cut out figures in fabric of different colour. These are to be used in "flanellograf" in Sunday schools. The last times I've been put to do some paper work instead, and I think I'm also going to type something into a computer afterwards. So here I work as a secretary, just doing what they put me to do. What's good, is that here we don't have to prepare anything in advance.

French course from 14-16 o'clock.

Every second week, at 20 o'clock, there's a Bible group with the Norwegians here. Then we use to have a really nice time, reading a paragraph in the Bible and discussing and talking about it. And also the meeting always use to include good food and drink :)

Fridays: 

Sentre Socio from 10:30-13:40. From 10:30-12:00 I've English, and from 12:30-13:40 computer skills. Each Friday I've a vocabulary test, so then I also have some work later with correcting them. I also use some time preparing the lessons, and correcting work they've done in class. So there's some work with this without working time as well...

Saturdays:

Our only day totally free, with out any set plans ;)

Sundays:

The Millennium church (8-10)/the Hospital church (10-12)/no church. From 10-11 o'clock it's sometimes choir practise (before concerts). At 12/13 o'clock we use to go to a restaurant called "Coffee Shop" with the boys to eat dinner, because Sundays our maid has free...There it's not much to choose between, so er always end up ordering "Steak aux champignons", but it's very good :D

17:30-18:00 it's "Bønnehytte", which is mainly for the Norwegian children. Then we sing some songs, pray and tell/read something from the Bible (we rotate who does this).

Not Coffee Shop, but outside the other restaurant, called Plaza. Been here two times..

Inside Plaza, as you may see; a very fine restaurant!