Helping each other....

Well, I had the privilege 2 week-end ago to be invited by the Cameroon's association in Portsmouth, where people mostly from Cameroon or Central Africa spend Saturday evening together (twice a month) to talk about their life in their new country and how hard sometime it can be to settle here in England. The first thing I though was really good about that is the fact that suddenly surrender by people from the same world of your, you just feel home again and forget about winter and the cost of living here in England, the other thing is that you can share your problem with other who speak the same language as you (French or Ethnic language) and this make thing much easier to solve them sometime.... Obviously nothing is easy and as proud African as we are, we spend most of our time shouting at each other just because we disagreed on the necessity to organize a cultural event, then spend the rest of the night all together launching and drinking until the next day.

I must admit that it wasn't the first time my good friend Patrick Mouessi asked me to come around and be part of it, and I did enjoy be with them and talking about "stuff" we all have to deal with when we decided to come here....

It's always much easier in life to be part of a group of friend instead to be alone on your side. This country, England, taught us that as a foreign and specially as black or mixed person we will always have to face tough challenge everyday from looking for a skilled job to renting or buying your own house.
I believe that our biggest challenge so far is to have our kids who were born here to understand where they come from and how they should be proud of their historic and cultural heritage, and I think that this Cameroon's association is a warm and welcome idea in a so cold country...