Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Today we loaded Eric's car up with myself in front and Francis, Doris, and Dorothy in the back.  Off we went to Mokolo Market, the largest market in all of Yaounde.  If you can't find it in Mokolo, it does not exist.  We were shopping for material for uniforms for our team.  Everyone was very excited.  The very first stall we went to they found what they were looking for.  Then it was just a matter of haggling over the price, including saying his price was too high and taking off for another vendor.  That strategy almost always works.  Once they had selected five lengths of fabric all the same and two lengths a darker contrasting color, I went to work looking for something for myself.  And the vendor felt the price should go up now that the white lady was buying!  But the white lady was tough and mean and won in the end.  I stayed sitting in his stall while the rest went across the way to buy trouser material for the guys.  They had decided that the gals would each have a dress and then a blouse in the material with a skirt in the contrasting color.  The guys would have shirts and black slacks.  And everybody wants hats.  Caps really.  A good friend of Dorothy's will do the sewing.  She is the best seamstress in their village and has recently fled to Yaounde.  She's a strong believer and is very excited to have found work already.  Then they announced that everybody needed shoes so we took off for the shoe section of the market.  After considerable time we found shoes all around.  Finally it was time to head to a lovely Chinese restaurant to have lunch and celebrate Francis's 33rd birthday.  Did we have fun eating won-ton soup, drinking Jasmin tea, and all sorts of other things.  We ended the day buying a phone for Romeo so he can listen to sermons while he works this month.  He is filling in for Joseph who is on vacation.  Romeo is downstairs now setting up his new Smart Phone.  He's one happy camper to put it mildly.  We returned to Shiloh with smiles on our faces, tired but happy.

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