i have a real live chauffeur!!!

I have now completed two days at the UNDP office! Things are going well. I am going to be doing a lot of observation of various departments, but I'm also going to be updating the UNDP Cameroon English website by writing about the current activities and goals of each department. The office is modest but good. The room that I mostly stay in has air conditioning, which is great. I've been practicing reading UN documents in French, which is not so hard for the most part, since there is a lot of overlap with English and Spanish. I have to look up about 10% to 20% of the words. Today I went to lunch with a Canadian intern and a worker from Colombia and we had cheeseburgers. I'm definitely the youngest person in the international community here, except for the children. Later on I shook hands with the deputy European Union ambassador to Cameroon!
Life at the house is cool. They have a ton of movies, since media is one of the only things that they can have shipped from the states. Plus they really like movies. And when I say ton, I mean at least 200 dvds and a few VHS. Crazy. They also have a full house staff, which includes a gardener, gate guard, driver, and a housekeeper that does the laundry (I just found a pile of clean, folded clothes on my bed!), ironing, cooking, and cleaning. She's a rockstar at it, too. She's so fast, thorough, and hardworking. I don't know why she's a housekeeper. She has great hair too. Tonight it was in beehive, covered with a sheer scarf, and tied with a ribbon.