Yaounde

The GTZ house is based on a little hill. A few meters further is an open-air café where artists display their oeuvres. You can have a drink while overlooking a good part of the city - very scenic!

The mentality is very different here from Indonesia, that much is clear.

While in Indonesia people smile all the time, here in Cameroon, people don’t smile - behavior changes from very polite, to cheerful, mocking, to what Europeans (even more Asians, I suppose) would consider as quite rude – even if meant in a joking way.

Interaction is very much facilitated for me by the fact that all people apart from very remote villagers speak some degree of French, and most English as well, even though French is nobody’s mother tongue as Cameroon counts about 270 native languages – chapeau!