Mardi matin, j\u2019ai suivi mon cours de sociologie \u00e9lectorale \u00e0 l\u2019UCAC. Apr\u00e8s mon cours, nous avons eu un cours au Centre de Middlebury. Il fallait que je prenne un taxi de l\u2019UCAC \u00e0 Nikki Mokolo et puis un autre \u00e0 Tsinga. C\u2019\u00e9tait la premi\u00e8re fois que je prenais des taxis de l\u2019UCAC \u00e0 Nikki Mokolo \u00e0 Tsinga. Je n\u2019ai pas su la route. En plus, j\u2019ai eu seulement assez de monnaie pour un taxi\u00a0; mes autres francs \u00e9taient 5000 CFA ou plus grand. Donc, il fallait que je fasse la monnaie apr\u00e8s mon deuxi\u00e8me tour en taxi. Ce n\u2019\u00e9tait pas beaucoup des taxis au sommet pr\u00e8s de l\u2019UCAC, alors j\u2019ai march\u00e9 en bas de la montagne \u00e0 la route principale. \u00c9tonnamment, j\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 rapidement un taxi \u00e0 Mokolo.<\/p>\n
Quand je suis arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 Mokolo, je suis all\u00e9e \u00e0 la boulangerie pour faire la monnaie. Il y avait un petit probl\u00e8me de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e0 la boulangerie\u2026J\u2019\u00e9tais le probl\u00e8me. J\u2019ai march\u00e9 dans la boulangerie avec mon sac \u00e0 dos, et \u00e9videment, ce n\u2019est pas acceptable \u00e0 cette boulangerie. L\u2019agent de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 m\u2019a demand\u00e9 de laisser mon sac dehors avec un employ\u00e9 de la boulangerie. J\u2019ai eu mon iPad et autres objets de valeur dans mon sac \u00e0 dos, donc je n\u2019ai pas voulu laisser mon sac. Pourtant, il fallait que je fasse la monnaie \u00e0 la boulangerie pour prendre un deuxi\u00e8me taxi \u00e0 Tsinga. J\u2019ai eu un dilemme.<\/p>\n
J\u2019ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de laisser mon sac \u00e0 l\u2019employ\u00e9, mais j\u2019ai m\u2019assur\u00e9 que mon sac \u00e9tait en s\u00e9curit\u00e9. J\u2019ai demand\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019employ\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est en s\u00e9curit\u00e9\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb. Il a souri et m\u2019a dit tr\u00e8s gentiment \u00ab\u00a0Oui\u00a0\u00bb puis il m\u2019a donn\u00e9 une carte pour retrouver mon sac. Je suis entr\u00e9e dans la boulangerie, j\u2019ai achet\u00e9 un soda et j\u2019ai fait la monnaie. J\u2019ai quitt\u00e9 rapidement la boulangerie et je suis all\u00e9e retrouver mon sac. Quand, je suis arriv\u00e9e au stand pour retrouver mon sac, l\u2019employ\u00e9 de la boulangerie a initi\u00e9 une conversation amicale avec moi et m\u2019a rassur\u00e9 que toutes mes choses \u00e9taient l\u00e0. \u00c0 la fin de notre conversation, il m\u2019a donn\u00e9 mon sac et, en fait, tout \u00e9tait l\u00e0. Je suis partie de la boulangerie, mais j\u2019ai r\u00e9alis\u00e9 bient\u00f4t que je n\u2019ai su pas o\u00f9 on peut prendre un taxi \u00e0 Tsinga. Je suis revenu au stand de l\u2019employ\u00e9 de la boulangerie et j\u2019ai demand\u00e9 \u00e0 mon nouvel ami \u00e0-propos du taxi. Il m\u2019a montr\u00e9 o\u00f9 je peux prendre un taxi \u00e0 Tsinga. J\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 rapidement un taxi et j\u2019\u00e9tais en route au Centre de Middlebury tout de suite. Tout \u00e9tait bien.<\/p>\n
English translation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tuesday morning, I had my Electoral Sociology course at the University. After class at the University, I had to go to the Middlebury Center for another class. To get from the University to the Center, it was necessary that I take a taxi from to Nikki Mokolo, and then another taxi to Tsinga. This was also my first time taking a taxi this way and I frankly did not know the route. Making matters worse, I had only enough change for one taxi ride (my other CFAs were too large to pay for taxis). Thus, it was going to be necessary that I get change for my second taxi ride. The next hour and a half was quite an adventure:<\/p>\n Task 1<\/strong>\u2014 Take taxi from University to Nikki Mokolo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There weren\u2019t very many taxis at the top of the hill near the University, so I had to walk about 10 minutes to the main road. Surprisingly, once I arrived at the bottom of the hill, I got a taxi to Mokolo rather quickly.<\/p>\n Task 2\u2014 Get change. <\/strong><\/p>\n When I arrived at Nikki Mokolo, I went to a supermarket to get change. There was a little problem at the supermarket\u2026I was the problem. I walked into the supermarket with my backpack and apparently, backpacks are not allowed (I did not know this beforehand). The security officer asked me to leave my backpack with a supermarket employee at the bag stand. Nevertheless, I was very reluctant to leave my bag because I had valuable items inside. However, it was necessary that I get change at the supermarket to take my second taxi. I had a dilemma.<\/p>\n I decided to leave my bag with the employee, but not without ensuring that it would be kept safely. I asked the employee \u201c It\u2019s safe, right?\u201d and he smiled and said very nicely, \u201cYes, it\u2019s safe with me.\u201d Then he gave me a card to retrieve my bag once I finished shopping. I went into the supermarket, bought a soda, got my change, and left quickly to retrieve my bag. When I arrived at the bag stand to retrieve my bag, the supermarket employee initiated a friendly conversation with me and assured me that all my belongings were where I left them. At the end of our conversation, he handed me my bag and I had made a new friend.<\/p>\n Task 3\u2014 Take taxi from Nikki Mokolo to Tsinga.<\/strong><\/p>\n I left the supermarket and realized I had no idea where to take a taxi to my next destination. So I returned to the bag stand and asked my new friend for help. He pointed out where I should go stand, then I quickly found a taxi and was on my way to the Middlebury Center in Tsinga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mardi matin, j\u2019ai suivi mon cours de sociologie \u00e9lectorale \u00e0 l\u2019UCAC. Apr\u00e8s mon cours, nous avons eu un cours au Centre de Middlebury. Il fallait que je prenne un taxi de l\u2019UCAC \u00e0 Nikki Mokolo et puis un autre \u00e0 Tsinga. C\u2019\u00e9tait la premi\u00e8re fois que je prenais des taxis de l\u2019UCAC \u00e0 Nikki Mokolo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}