Monday, October 26, 2009

Ragazza Molto Viziosa, Una Dvd

Finally we start to see the country

Enfin on commence à voir du pays
Notre premier petit voyage à l’extérieur de Maroua s’organise Saturday with our couple friends Suzanne and Ghislain. We're off to Mindif peak at 25 km from Maroua motorbike taxi after much hesitation and negotiation (auto-taxi, bus, motorcycle taxi). I'm really excited. I like to go on a motorcycle, it gives me a feeling of freedom, a sense of great adventure. The landscape along the dirt road is really beautiful, the wind tickles the skin, the difficulties on the road as holes, rivers to cross without a bridge makes it all the more original and exotic.
Mindif The peak is a mountain of rock, with a peak very very steep. You can imagine, we climbed all what can be done (mid-way between hiking and climbing). Finally, my cardio work, I think it's been that he has not been put to that. Two young boys are with us are our guides. They walk on this mountain is steep and rugged barefoot or in 'gogoune'. They are really impressive, it seems that this is their playground, it seems that there are monkeys on the mountain, but none in our field of vision to our great disappointment.
weather is beautiful: sun, wind, not too hot and we go almost to the great peak at my pleasure. The view is superb Mindif the village and surrounding area. I feel so alive I feel alive, full of energy and happiness. To top it off, Sunday we climb Mount Maroua Maroua. A young university student in management with us, it is interesting, motivated, full of ideas, I see these young people want, fortunately there are still few, few.
Tuesday is my first trip to work. I go with Henry and Marcel for Kousséri which is located entirely in northern Cameroon. We travel by bus. They return on their journey. We sit 5 in a space of 4, in reality we are 3 in a space of 2. The 270 km trip takes 5 hours because of road conditions and becomes tiresome in the long run. We had to show 4 times our identity cards on the way home because there are constant police checkpoints. Kousséri really has nothing to attract tourists no town charm, dirty, lacking decent restaurants apart from the tourist stop where we had a nice supper of love and the restaurant of peace. There are two hotels respectable but they sold out, we retreated to a hotel a bit noisy but clean with air conditioning.
On the way, it also crosses a border with Nigeria. Again, the legal and illegal trade in full swing. A large quantity of gasoline sold in Cameroon arrived illegally from Nigeria.
is also on this road we find the famous part of Waza, then we can do a safari. The rainy season is not over yet, we must wait until December for this experience. You'll have to wait for the story you too.
Marcel has also enjoyed these little visits Cameroon.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Kates Playground Maturbate

Louis Edem, I love you! A very good book


Literary evening yesterday at the chic Pavillon Taché UQO. We must be at least 60 to come and see and listen to the new sensation of the hour, the Togolese Edem Awumey writer, shortlisted for the Goncourt, nothing less. A resident of Old Hull nominated for the prestigious French literary prizes, I could not miss it, I who constantly complain about my anemia cultural Outaouais adoption.


I mentioned in this virtual space, my propensity to be a little bit, not bad, yes, OK, I admit, extremely Groop. Of course, I am tripping literature, for real. But I am still asked if that made me leave my house, a gray evening September when I could have stuffed the fall programming of Radio-Can or read my Entertainment Weekly, is a real willingness to meet an author or a desire to see someone who may have the Goncourt. It's a bit of both, I guess. Probably my "groopisme" led me to the room and my love for literature made me stay until the end of the launch.

And I'm glad to be stayed until the end of the event ... Edem Awumey this is completely charming and his quick wit is matched only by his humility. He is African, European and North American time. It a little voice at the foix shy and playful. It gives a taste of writing and especially reading what he wrote about exile, Exit, on wandering.

I looked straight into his eyes during his presentation. I wanted him to feel my presence. Everybody was like me. We were overwhelmed by Edem and his laughter.

Goncourt The issue of returns. If there had not been this majestic appointment, how would he have any fans? 10, 15 people, family and close friends? I do not know.

Yesterday, we had 25 or 30 to be queuing up to ask de nous dédicacer Les pieds sales . Je suis toujours nerveuse dans de telles situations. Je dis merci pour l'inspiration, la plupart du temps et je laisse mon regard parler. A mon merci, il a répondu "C'est moi". Il me remerciait, à son tour et j'ai senti sa sincérité.

Je ne sais pas s'il gagnera le Goncourt, en novembre. Je lui souhaite, bien sûr, pour que d'autres personnes aussi groopies que moi le découvrent. Moi, je ne l'ai pas encore lu, mais je l'aime déjà. Et ce n'est pas seulement la groopie qui parle, c'est l'humaine qui a découvert la grande beauté intérieure d'un de ses congénères.

I read his book (as soon as I finished my correction) and I'll keep you posted.