Hi …,
I am Arnaud and growing up in a beautiful country in west-central Africa named Cameroon, I had an extended family. You know, when they say it takes a village, it really does. I grew up with the expectation of my parents and my extended family to go to school, get A grades, always be the first in my class and someday become a doctor or an engineer.
During my whole childhood, I was focusing on meeting those expectations and I have done it most of the time or at least so good that 20 years ago the village put money together to send me to Europe after I graduated cum laude from school in order to continue my education in a German university to become an engineer.
During my farewell ceremony in the “place du Village” I got remembered from the village’s chief, that with the village sending me to Europe, I am not only the hope of my parents but I became yet the hope of a complete village for taking the village out of poverty.