ISP almost done

Much a time has passed depuis depuis, but everything is swell with me still. Been living more repetitive than other portions of the trip and/or doing less thrilling academic stuff. I’ve been splitting my time recently between writing my paper and playing pacman on the home computer. It’s a nice home-like work environment, just lacking in snood. I finished my field research last week by Wednesday, so have just really been strapped to the computer tapant tapant tapant. Paper looks good right now, with revisions and input from my (slightly above useless) advisor and mama from US (thanks again). Though its no supreme published study, I’m proud of the work I did, especially with the mad time constraint and the need to see important people.
In other news, my two travel buddies for the month of may after the program have both decided that due to their excessive tropical illnesses, they are going home early on the group flight. So Ive dealt with this issue the past few days, but decided I’d rather go home than travel alone or be lost for what to do alone. No one else is really travelling like I want to, and though I’ll be missing some interesting stuff, I still did a ton within the 3 months ive been here, and really the extra time was more like a vacation than a continued learning experience. So vacation cancelled. What is sad thought is I may not get to see my baby brother in Dschang who may be sporting my name. he is due on the 8th of may, which is the day we leave dschang for good. I’m just waiting for Lyon Travel and Air France to approve the change back, which hopefully will work out, and I should be back May 14th if all works out. I will confirm this at a later date.
I miss US stuff, but thinking already about the end of Cameroon is intense stuff. Its such a unique never repeated experience doing the program here, and I hope I made the most out of it. I’ll def miss the culture and people of these parts. It will be strange living amongst majority white people again, within a culture I actually fully understand. Plus the food here will be missed, though I hope to find some of my favorites at the Roger Miller (Cameroonian) Resto in Silver Spring once I’m back. (Coci should be added to the good food list, beans and oil in a cake form yumyumyum).
In the meantime, Dschang awaits after I print, copy and bind my ISP tomorrow. There its presentations for everyone and last minute affairs. Then it will be to Limbe for fun and unwind before the flight home. So little left! And so many goodbyes to be said in the next two weeks, yikes.