la premiere est la plus jolie

We are all entertained by Jean. He came over and started discussing with us how crazy douala is and how it is an inferno of yelling. Baise ton chien...enfoirer en...va faire enculer...putain de merde! And no one gives a damn for anyone else even the pousse pousse boy can talk shit to the fat man in a land rover. His explanation that there are too many people in a small piece of land seems perfectly reasonable. He was pleased by the respectfulness of Anglophones when he first got here imitating how they bow their head and join hands whenever talking to a superior. He said it was nice at first but after three years he realizes that it is mostly false respect. We all agree douala is hot and hostile to strangers. Jean's anecdotes were most onomatopoeiic man douala is like then he imitates a car horn and goes to a string of expletives in French. Once we think we have resolved something he says that he wants to move back to douala as soon as he can because that is how he is used to living and he is lonely here, he feels intellectually reduced having to speak English all day. One sign I think he wrote at the SNEC office was like the decentralization of competency is an acceptable program which maximizes the value of services rendered to the customer. I don't feel so bad about some francophones making fun of a notice I wrote in French because it was probably like that: acceptable but clearly of foreign provenance.
Jean revealed that au fond he missed his girlfriend and son who are now in Douala then went to complain a bit about how she vexes with him and he can never figure out why then Ada facilitates a conversation on the differences between women and men, which is the best kind of conversation that a mixed-gender group can have and the subject of half of all comedy. To a man, every woman's opinion on the subject is important since they possess the expertise of being a woman and being able to observe men more impartially. The same for women. Jean used the phrase cunning questions to describe the kind of speech his girlfriend uses when he knows she is about to become angry with him.