Cameroon

Hi guys, how have you been? I went to a conference about Cameroon with my friend yesterday and we met a french girl and a cameroonian guy. We talked a little bit with the french girl and she explained us about some African handcrafts that were there. There were many crafts but what I liked the most was a very weird mask made of coconut's fiber.
The Cameroonian guy spoke in my natal language with a touch of french accent, he showed us a power point presentation. He said that Cameroon was named that way because the portuguese were the first ones in going there and they named 2 rivers like "Camaroes" that means shrimps.
The coin there is the African franc and you can buy many things with little money. For example a meal cost less than 1 usd. You can buy a 3-story building with 1000 usd.
There are 2 nature reserves with a lot of wild animals, I think they take care of the animals and keep preserving the nature.
The oficial languages in Cameroon are French and English. There are 8 States where French is spoken and 2 states where English is spoken. So it's like Canada.
Cameroon is a peaceful country. They haven't had a war or a conflict. The people there are pacific. The government has given a lot of scholarships to the good students to go abroad and then when they go back home they can get a job easily.
I think the government has focus a lot on education.
After the conference I saw part of a documentary and what I noticed was that the life there is completely different from here. First of all the babies are taken out from their mothers and are given to another family, It could be the mother's sister or another person, that's because they want their children to be completely independent.
The houses of the movie were small and there's no lawn, actually I didn't see lawn, all was ground. And I could notice that people were happy even though they seem to have a precarious life.
I think Cameroonian people are healthier than the people from here I think they don't worry a lot.
I learned something new about Cameroon, in fact this is my first contact with the African culture.