Many of you have help check things off this list and it is much appreciated!!! Thank God for the friends and family He has given me :D
If you remember the previous list, it was a decent length, but with some help much of it has been checked off! These items remain un-obtained. Pretty much the medicines and a few random things.
Medicines:
I would love to have a stash of all of these- at least until I get to know the meds here!
- Muscle Rub, IcyHot, whatever
- Anti-itch medication
- Triple antibiotic ointment
- multi-vitamins
- water purification tablets
- Insect repellent
Holidays (Especially Christmas):
This is going to be one of the hardest times for me.
- A mixed CD of your favorite Christmas songs… I’ll think of you as I listen to it J
Miscellaneous Items:
To me, this is all the really fun stuff! Or at least the Multi-tool is...
- Multi tool
- Flashlight
- Batteries
- Mosquito Net
- Cement screws for hanging things on the cement walls
- Small basic tool kit – screwdriver, slip-joint pliers (to change gas bottle)
Great idea--this seems like a great way to keep organized! I can say from experience that ibuprofen, tylenol equivalent, antibiotic ointment, band-aids, and vitamins are all widely available at the many pharmacies in Yaounde. Debrox (for clogged ears), on the other hand, wasn't available anywhere as far as the friend who checked for me could tell.
ReplyDeletePeople do celebrate Christmas in Cameroon, but very differently (often with church and visiting friends from house to house), so the Christmas music is a fantastic thing to bring. I really missed having some playlists last year. And our students did do some caroling, which was a delightful expression of the joy of Christ's birth, especially when it's not that common here!
Highly recommend the flashlight and batteries. Flip flops are good to have, but can easily be purchased downtown, too.
Hope the rest of your prep is going well--I was encouraged and calmed by your post about waiting. Being here is, in a sense, a different kind of waiting.
Just to clarify, I meant that caroling isn't that common, not that sharing the joy of Christ's birth isn't practiced.
ReplyDeleteCaroling! Oh I'm so happy they do that :D
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update of what they do and don't have in Yaounde, I'll go update that now :)
Thanks, BlancheNeige!