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.

Hanging out.

Yesterday I hanged out with some friends and we went to a foreigners' school to watch a short film and due to the delay of my friends I waited for hers for hours and at the end we didn't watch anything. After that there were glasses with apple sparky juice, pasties and sausage rolls , so we ate some of them and drank the juice.
As we had something to eat and drink, we decided to go to the cafe that is located in an alley and we ordered cafe, tea and chocolate drinks. One of my friends met a person there and I stayed with my other new friend. We were talking there when a little homeless female kid came and she was begging us to buy a rose she was selling, I felt really bad about the kid and I gave her some money and told her to keep the rose but she didn't keep it and left the rose on the table. I can't believe that no one helps homeless children to get a better life. They're are the future of any nation and If they grew with problems then when they are adults they may commit some crimes.
I feel really sorry about them, they shouldn't be on the streets. I think each time I saw a homeless person reminds me that how inequal is the world. I want an equal world in all the senses including human beings, nature and animals equality for all. We have to remember the symbiosis nature principle. Everybody depends on everybody and everything. We are part of the same world so we take care of it.

Vocabulary I didn't know

Just to reinforce the vocabulary I didn't know.

Armoured truck - Camión blindado
Pierce - Perforar
Calibre - calibre
Raid - Redada
bureaucracy - burocracia
refinery - refinería
financed by - financiado por
lord's prayer - padre nuestro (oración)
shrive - confesar
to go steady with somebody - ser novio de alguien
prognosis - pronóstico (medico)