Monday night

(Monday night unedited) I was just too tired to get any typing done last night. Before I went to sleep I was lying on the bed jotting down a few ideas and was nodding off and waking up to see if I had actually written anything or had been sleep writing. I got to sleep about 11:30 and other than a leg cramp which got me out of bed sometime before dawn I had a good night’s rest and woke up about 7:25. My alarm was set for seven but the time on the cell had not changed and it never went off at 7:00. There seems to be a little trend going on here. Probably need to get a refresher course in alarm clock setting 101.
But I am getting ahead of myself. We left Zurich reasonably on time and had a beautiful view of the snow and glacier coated Alps. We traversed the Mediterranean. Before leaving DC, Bob had inquired about an upgrade. In Zurich 6 of the 9 of us were upgraded to business class but the enemies attempt to divide us did not work. We insisted that if we had been asked we would have insisted that they take our places, though I had the feeling that they never quite bought that story. We landed in Duala first and lost the better part of the passenger load. The short hop to Yaoundé was quickly completed and stepping off the plane I felt I had realized a long awaited goal of visiting Africa for the first time. The airport was of all things hot and humid. We all traipsed over immigration and waited in line. While we waited there was a throbbing beat of drums which made it a little hard to talk. Later when we got to the door there was a band playing and some young girls dancing. We were all finally waved past the immigration officers and into the luggage retrieval area. There had been some uncertainty about a missing bag which was solved there. Someone had miss tagged a bag. We had checked 16 bags and after some problems were happy to retrieve all 16. We were picked up by two male missionaries Paul and Mickey. We were ushered through the VIP line in relatively short order and headed off to our accommodation and welcomed by Mickey, his wife Barbara and another woman named Marcelline. After a light supper we were off to unpack and get a good night’s rest.
First thing on the agenda was breakfast in the commons. Then we piled into the van and toured some of the SIL facilities being introduce to many people along the way. We got some Money changed at the Admin. Building. One hundred dollars buys about 50,000 francs. I haven’t spent any yet so I don’t know how to explain the value. Wait yes I do we bought some notebooks for our classes today that were about 200 francs each or about 40 cents. I have more to say but my eyes are drooping and the fingers aren’t working so I will tell you more tomorrow.