Celebrate the first day of World Cup 2010

US Embassy Cameroon Celebrate the first day of world cup 2010.

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Cameroon Celebrate International Womens Day!

With the Ambassador and Yes We support and Promote Equal Rights and Opportunity for all!

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Christmas in Yaounde!!

Milk and Cookies for Santa

Baking cookies

Our family little tradition on Christmas Eve

Our Family Christmas ornament every year

Glad to spent Christmas in Yaounde!

Claire with her new red dress and her outdoor goal set

Wii game for Christmas who could ask for more!

Showing off my Cameroon home jersey!!

　
Our first Christmas in Yaounde is not bad at all!! Wherever we are we stick with our little tradition that we started since Claire came into our life. On the night of Christmas Eve I usually prepare a good dinner...after dinner Jeff will put the star topper on the Christmas tree and then later before going to bed Jeff and Claire will bake a cookies for Santa and we put claire to bed...of course Jeff eats the cookies and drinks the milk to make Claire think that Santa stopped by and brought her presents. Christmas morning we woke up with excitement especially Claire and I! So still in our pajamas the three of us sat under the Christmas tree and start looking for our name on each gift. I'm happy with what I got this year, the Cameroon home soccer jersey is so cool!!! Thanks baby! I also got a wii which is the reason my shoulder is hurting now hehehe..and of course my swiss army watch that is on my wish list and to top it all my Bobby Flay collection has expanded and I thank my loving Mom in law for that beautiful gift. Claire got a outdoor goal set with a soccer ball and some accessories for field hockey and lacrosse. She really likes it and is kicking the ball all the time now! She also got a KidJam musical toy from Grandma...she's really enjoying that too, and is already making different music and mixes. We went over to our friends place in the afternoon and had a BBQ...some burgers and chicken, plus some fish and my ratatouille. We had a great time...Claire and the girls went swimming...on Christmas day! Then we all went swimming again on the 26th!! Only in Yaounde!! I'm sure we'll jump in on New Years day as well!!

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Michael Jackson of Cameroon

The Thriller segment"
We just got home from a tribute show to Michael Jackson and man this guy really did dance like Michael Jackson...and his body build and height just like Michael, he's a Cameroonian guy basically a black guy but he is an Albino. The show was held at the embassy sponsored by the Marine Security Guard. They sell hamburger and hotdog lil sxpensive but They're trying to raise money for the Marine Ball on November.We did really enjoy watching the guy imitating MJ. He had 3 other dancers backing him up and they were also very good. They also dressed up as zombies for the "thriller"segment... Il tres bien!!they were really good! All the kids got scared...claire was crying a little and we had to hold her. But it was all good...a really great performance. The ambassador was there...and the ambassador from Italy and his wife...plus people from other embassies around town...we think it was an excuse for people to come party at the american embassy!haha.We had a great saturday night!Kudos to the Michael Jackson guy of Cameroon! Ciao!

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Got to meet The Ambassador of Yaounde!

Today is Jeff first day at work at the embassy...mostly just checkin stuff. But he came and got us for lunch, we went to a local Italian place and we met Jeff's supervisor, Justin, and his wife, and two other SEOs who are here for TDY from Pretoria.Me and jeff had calzone its a turnover made from pizza dough and its huge stuff with ham,mushroom and lots of cheese on it as soon as it gets on our table Claire say Wowowee!and she's excited to ripped it open and eat it.Service was very slow...took a long time for food to arrive after we placed our order. We were told to get used to it...that's the way it is here.
After lunch we all went back to the Embassy,The building is pretty new and very high-tech as far as safety is concern. I met a marine guy on duty. Jeff and I got our Embassy ID cards...nice!My ID allow me almost anywhere inside the embassy except on those area that is classified. We were able to get some more stuff from the commisary. Then we both had check-in with the Regional Security Officer...the office that Jeff works in (RSO). She gave us a briefing on residential security as well as the situation here in Cameroon,I make sure I absorbed evrything she briefed us.The RSO carry a gun and she's a lady! She is nice and find her cool!Then we had a briefing with the Deputy Chief of Mission...the DCM. He's the #2 person in charge at the Embassy, and stands in as the ambassador when she is out of country. He gave us some brownies with a card as a gesture in welcoming us. Pretty cool!! He was really nice and told me he hopes I plan to work!! Then we got to meet with the Ambassador...she is also really nice! Calm and very sophisticated.She welcome us personally and tell us how lucky we are(for some reasons) to get our first post here in Yaounde. On the lower level of the building is the CLO office,She is so nice and hand me a copy of the monthly event schedule and classes going on.She suggested I join the African dance Class!and Im opt for that!!I spot a couple of event that excite me that is the Ebogo Canoe trip and of course the Ladies night!Lastly we went to the Language class and met Amadou a local guy and sign up for french lesson.Seems like there's a lot of nice and interesting things we can do in Cameroon!!

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