light

I took the two pictures above from our yard last night. The light here is different, more intense, due to Yaounde's equatorial location. I bumped up the saturation level on the pictures, but they remain just a hint of the colors and the towering size of the skies here at dusk. It reminds me, oddly, of motorcycling through Montana. It's dark at about 6pm, light at about 6am, and these were taken maybe 545pm.

We met with the Eglise Presbyterian Camerounais, or EPC, today. It's one of our two volunteer jobs this year. Specifically, we met with the moderator of the EPC, and several other leaders whom he asked to attend, including the treasurer, and people in charge of education and hospitals within the denomination, which extends across Cameroon. We discussed their information systems needs, which we're here to work on. They don't have much yet, so we'll put a plan together of the several possibilities we could work on, and see what they want. Computerizing all their hospital records, introducing computer education for grades K through 14, and automating the church's accounting and management of personnel and contacts would be the ideal. The space of the possible is, of course, a bit smaller. But they are happy to see us, aware that we won't be able to do everything, and even throwing us a welcome reception next Tuesday. I'll try to get a few pictures.

Tonight we're off to a Barn Dance and benefit pie sale with Ann K, Ray, and their kids. Mmm, pie.