dear friends is wonderful to receive all your mail your thoughts, statements of the New Year, the confessions. I wish I could answer one by one to make you understand what your words give me strength and make me feel good. I hope you all can understand that what you do for me is important. This may seem an email but it is a collective-to-face chat with each of you.
are in Yaounde, the administrative capital of this amazing country. the economic capital, as well as the largest city and commercial hub instead Douala, located on the coast. 50 km from Yaounde and Mbalmayo sono sostanzialmente solo brousse (spero si scriva così) foresta tropicale a tutti gli effetti. il verde qua è un altro colore che penso non corrisponda a nessuno di quelli che ognuno di noi ha impressi nella sua tavolozza immaginaria. noi li abbiamo percorsi col gippone, la strada è asfaltata e scorre benissimo senonchè qui vanno come dei pazzi e quindi ogni tanto ti trovi una sagoma nera sul ciglio con scritto sopra 16 morti e allora magari un po'rallenti..sui lati baracchini ogni tanto, pedaggi legali o meno, bimbi di 3-4 anni che camminano da soli chissà alla ricerca di chi o di cosa. poi arrivi in yaounde. e te ne accorgi. la massa di gente taxi ovunque senza un codice ne stradale ne morale galline polli baracche mercati, pompe funeral every ten meters (for now and win the paradis and the voyage Derniere ), anyone who stops you, your partner who was in grade school and who offers to take you on a tour of città.gente, people, and people. and then the myth of the fetus. Here this man is a god, is a kind of prophet. The Pope, presidents and movie stars make him a mustache. is untouchable. everyone has his shirt, murals, posters, publicity is a product qualisasi .. why? in '94 because Cameroon has successfully participated at the World Championships and from there the football has become THE OPPORTUNITY '. now think that this is one of the strongest players in the world has fueled the phenomenon because if the fetus has made you too maybe you'll make it (though I think it is very different from what it was for maradona napoli even though it was a compatriot, but here the discussion is open. just amazing the power that can have a man who pulls kick a ball. power that influences the choices of millions of people, an entire people and therefore the story)
the CASS Yaounde where I stay for ten days immersed in the district of nkolndongo, and clay huts, those who are fortunate concrete walls and asbestos roofs but they are few. children play quietly in the huge boxes of garbage. marshes with sewer rats as big as cats run in the midst of the "case", impressive number: a) of the hairdressers - women and girls every day have a different hairstyle, but always fascinating, often unlikely
b) of the Church, understood as congregazioni.sette.ce is something each of the sorta.e chicanta race is longer and stronger. The first night I stayed here the church lawn has gone on to sing in the streets with megaphones to 20 meters from the house up to seven thirty in the morning.
the CASS what? Literally Centre d'Animation Sociale and Sanitaire. but large compared to the center of Mbalmayo and functional utility of this structure, I learned much more immediatezza.c 'is a pregnancy. women are giving birth, costs less than clinical state and the service is better. on average there are 10-15 pieces per day. then add to the screaming fanatics Batisti excruciating (and motivated!) of women who give birth to a son. a few steps from my bed. One of these days maybe I'll see a live birth.
addition there is a maternity clinic, the apartment where we live, some classroom and a soccer field. We are here every day after school because boys 60-70 offer a social alternative does not exist. children up to eleven years do not pay anything, then a contribution from the eleven in CEFA of 1000 francs a year (and half a euro). the proposed activities are very beautiful and varied, there are 4 Cameroonian leaders each with a specialization different: those involved in sports (football coach, tournament, handball that here is a lot), some of the theater (with the kids writing lyrics, creating scenery, shows), some of the games, some of communication (poems, Themed debates, reading newspapers), some of film (usually film and discussion). clearly, my traveling companion in this experience, she will stay fixed in Yaounde-you are entering your time in each of these activities and gives appoggioche and large. often it is important for children to even talk, have a point of rierimento.ed addition, despite the undoubted willingness and preparedness of youth, a coordinator is not absolutely necessary because sempre sono affidabili. io ho fatto la mia prima esperienza oggi. i ragazzini mi hanno invitato ad allenarmi con loro a calcio, a 13-14 anni ci sono già dei potenziali campioni, quindi etò probabilmente serve davvero a qualcosa (comunque calcio tecnico, passaggi di prima, dribbling, manovre costruite..non è il calcio veloce e senza schemi che avevo conosciuto in kenya).
in casa è fantastico. chiara è aperta, critica, ma molto volenterosa e solare. poi c'è annemarie che è una donna camerounese che lavora al cass e che ora è incinta. e poi c'è tina, la "capa" che è un mito. non penso di potervela descrivere a dovere con le parole. dico solo che è una donna che si è made 40 years of africa. I Cameroon is increasingly a country of contradictions, the people are poor but not to eat potentially missing anyone. southern regions favor crops that cover the whole year. I was told that poverty is poverty in the north for food. here there is a paucity of education and we put little to notice. Tomorrow does not exist, often even each other. you're here and now. irritates you sometimes but it's a fascinating question to be exhausted.
set up a partnership with camerounesi is virtually impossible, because white is always a chance anyway and then get the same level is not even thinkable. the fault is a bit 'us and a bit' loro.
c'è gente che fa morire un bambino perchè non ha soldi per le cure e poi organizza due giorni dopo funerali spendendo cifre follli (qui il funerale conta ben più del matrimonio o di qualunque altra celebrazione), ogni tanto si presenta qualche mamma in maternitè che non può pagare il parto ma si porta dietro un fotografo ufficiale che costa un occhio della testa, gli investimenti non esistono anche se sarebbero fattibili per la maggior parte della popolazione per uscire da una condizione di miseria, gli uomini spendono un sacco di soldi in birra e magari non mandano i bambini a scuola. di esempi ce n'è tanti e ve ne riporterò ancora.
gli aspetti comunque non sono solo negativi, ad esempio mi sono accorto che il cosidetto digital divided (il gap informatico che sarebbe causa di tutti i mali dell'africa) è una bufala assurda. qui sanno usare gli apparecchi elettronici molto meglio di parecchi di noi...
la sveglia di norma è alle sei e mezza mi spiace non poter andare avanti ma sottrarrei del tempo al sonno mentre invece domattina devo essere in forma perchè dobbiamo scegliere il film con gli animatori e programmare le attività. ma soprattutto la giornata è lunga, calda e faticosa. ma davvero bella.
spero prima o poi di riuscire a rispondere anche solo con qualche riga a tutti voi che mi avete scritto. mi fa piacere sentire che un po'di cameroun in questo modo lo state vivendo anche voi. se un giorno ho un po'di tempo I put this blessed online blog, for now I leave you my number camerounse: 002379473521 with great affection
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New Year's Eve we were invited by the Italian Consulate in the district of sciuroso yaounde.villa beautiful, finely crafted interior details, people of high rank, a garden complete with a traditional group and myself that he has performed on stage with a duet of Madame soul camerounese of 200 pounds. and the band playing, I'm going to find in Douala, the keyboard had gabro. indescribable moments
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