Le mercredi, il y avait le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 de la journ\u00e9e internationale de la femme. Nous avons rencontr\u00e9 les travailleurs de l\u2019ambassade et les volontaires du Peace Corps \u00e0 l\u2019ambassade des Etats-Unis \u00e0 8h00, tout le monde habill\u00e9 dans le tissu du 8 mars. Environ 9h00, nous sommes parties en bus pour Avenue Kennedy o\u00f9 le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 aura lieu. Quand nous sommes arriv\u00e9s au d\u00e9fil\u00e9, nous avons assis et nous avons attendu deux heures. Donc, nous avons eu beaucoup de temps pour \u00e9couter aux bandes et pour en jouir les deux grandes affiches de Madame Chantal Biya, la femme du pr\u00e9sident camerounais. Et puis le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 a commenc\u00e9. Pendant le d\u00e9fil\u00e9, beaucoup d\u2019associations, d\u2019entreprises, d\u2019\u00e9glises, d\u2019organisations, et de minist\u00e8res ont march\u00e9. Nous avons joint le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 au milieu et nous avons march\u00e9 devant Madame Chantal Biya et devant des cameras du t\u00e9l\u00e9vision national du Cameroun. Le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 du 8 mars \u00e9tait une exp\u00e9rience sp\u00e9ciale, puissante, et tr\u00e8s m\u00e9morable.<\/p>\n
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English translation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n On Wednesday, March 8 there was a large parade in honor of International Women\u2019s Day. My study abroad program had the rare opportunity to march in the parade with the U.S. Embassy of Cameroon. Wednesday morning at 8am, we met workers from the Embassy and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers at the U.S. Embassy. Everyone at the Embassy, my friends, and I were dressed in the International Women\u2019s Day fabric. Around 9am, we took a bus together to Kennedy Avenue where the parade would take place. When we arrived at the parade, we sat and waited for two hours before the parade began. Thus, we had plenty of time to enjoy the two enormous posters of Madame Chantal Biya, the First Lady of Cameroon. Finally, the parade began! Thousands of women from several associations, businesses, churches, organizations, and government ministries marched in the parade. We joined the parade right in the middle and marched in front of Madame Biya on Cameroonian national television. As a young woman, the International Women\u2019s Day parade was a very special, memorable, and empowering experience for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le mercredi, il y avait le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 de la journ\u00e9e internationale de la femme. Nous avons rencontr\u00e9 les travailleurs de l\u2019ambassade et les volontaires du Peace Corps \u00e0 l\u2019ambassade des Etats-Unis \u00e0 8h00, tout le monde habill\u00e9 dans le tissu du 8 mars. Environ 9h00, nous sommes parties en bus pour Avenue Kennedy o\u00f9 le […]<\/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-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/oliviastudyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}