Oct. 3, 2012

All around the city, there are people selling anything that they feel has value.  There are also small businesses that make things to sell.   This is a wicker furniture store.  In the back ground you can see people in the yard weaving the reeds to make the furniture.  Most Africans could not affort such nice furniture.  Our apartment is furnished with it and it has pads that go on it to make it comfortable.

This is another market that sells the furniture.

 

 

There are hand carts every where.  They use them to transport things as well as to sell things.  We see old men with hand carts loaded with cinderblocks or cement bags, or a million other things that they pull around the city. This is one stop shopping for buckets and garbage cans.

This picture is taken out of our truck off to the side of the road.  The real Africans live in places like this that are seen looking in between the other buildings.  We see people cooking over open fires, pulling water out of a well with a bucket, and washing clothes in a bucket in front of these homes.

We went on a 4 hour drive to another city in Cameroon called Younde.  The Whitesides who came with us live there with 8 other Elders.  We took two of our Elders with us to get a residence card for one of them.  This is a water fall we passed as we drove across the river.  We drove through the middle of Cameroon and right through the jungle.  There were small villages all along the way, with mud homes with out plumbing or electricity.