lipsick but no clothes

I have found an internet cafe and my French has improved enought to ask where the @ key is _Valarie, you did not tel me how to say that, or that French keyboards have keys in different places.

I am really enjoying life, dispite my case beig in Brussells. I had to go to the market to by local clothes the day after I left and now am dressed like a local. I think I look like I am wearing my grannys tablecloth but no one else has seemed to notice. Dont worry friends. I had packed 3 lipsicks in my hand luggage. I know my priorities.

It is hard to know where to start. The smells, the sounds, the wonderful VSO staff or the Womens Day Dresses?

Womens Day Dresses I think.
All women in every village and town in Cameroon march on Womens Day, wearing this years cloth made into the dress or skirt of thier choice. Every year there is a new print. The cloth this year is pink, green and orange and is covered with slogans related to womens rights.

Most dresses are a cross between a maternity smock and a night dress, covered in frills and flounces. Every employer is supposed to buy each female staff member the cloth to make a dress then everyone joins the march. I am told it is more a celebration of a free dress than a political statement and that I will be expected to join in. I have chossen my dres. It is to be made by Olga from the Conga and will be ready for me before I leave for Ndu on Saturday. Its pink.

My case may arrive today _ Wednesday, then I wil have my camera cable and will post a picture of the dress. The bill will be sent to the Welsh Assembly, fashion account.