Part One

Here's a copy of an email we sent to a kid's SS Class. They were wondering what our kids thought of life here in Africa. I wrote it from the ideas that the kids had.


Here in Cameroon, we live in the jungle with the Baka people. One of our neighbors, Mama Lendo, is the grandmother of alot of the kids that we play with. She's really funny. She has a hole through her nose and her lip, and sometimes she puts sticks through those holes and makes funny faces so that we laugh. The Baka speak a different language than we do, but we know how to say "good morning" to them, "Mo-o juko-e". It actually translates as"Are you awake?" The Baka kids are really nice to us, and we like to play with them. Most of them know French, and so do we, so we talk in French when we play with them. One of our favorite games to play with the Baka is"Police and Bandits".

There are lots of fruit trees here in our orchard and in the forest. When we want some, we can just go to the tree, climb it and pick the fruit. We like ngoyo the best. If you eat it before it's ready, it tastes like sourpatch kids candy. It's red and small like a cherry tomato, but has a large seed in it and sometimes the red fruit gets all over our hands and mouths and clothes and is hard to wash out! We also get bananas by the regime. Instead of just having a hand of 5-10 bananas, we have a regime hanging outside our door with 60-100 bananas that we share with all of our neighbors. We also eat alot of corn from our garden and plantains. Our Mom & Dad let us grill them over the fire for a snack. Sometimes, but not often, we eat wild animals. Our favorite is hedgehog. We've also tried snake, but didn't like it as much.