Gouwa, the way to say Garoua

Language barriers are one of the challenges we'll face.  Native language is Fulfilada (?), official language is French, and English translates to you have more money.  We'll hopefully learn some of the workarounds.  We're at the YWAM base,a large shared house, and our home for the next few months.  Ours and the other 7 DTS students arriving today or tomorrow, as well as our hosts, Jonas, Rebecca, and their children.  They are very nice and have made us feel at home.  We took a walk around the area yesterday,  mostly residences in varying degrees of completion.  It's not very picturesque, kind of what we expected, but there will be time to get out and see other areas.  We are a long way from town, so will have to figure out navigation and transport.  It will be by motorbike (bodas in Uganda) and we'll have to make sure to find drivers who can get us back.  Internet will be a challenge, very slow, so skype and the ipad aren't working.  We experienced 100 degree temperature difference from Denver to here.  Rebecca says she hates the upcoming hot months...