Summer holidays

The fellow that we were going to live with, while we looked for work picked us up early in the morning and we started the drive toward Gainesville, Georgia.Muller, that was his name had an old automobile that he could maneuver pretty well.We arrived home quickly and met the rest of the household.It was a two bedroom apartment that Muller and Tambe, his roommate had rented out and we were to patch in for the holidays.I believe that we bought some mattresses that we used to sleep on the floor.Living in Gainesville was a little bit different from living in Clemson, South Carolina.The place had a large Cameroonian population and it was as if you had never left home.There was a lot of negative competition and jealousy going on.A lot of quarrelling and police calling and I was faced with a whole new set of problems.Muller had an African-American girlfriend, so did his roommate, Tambe.They will help introduce me to Kathy, who was my first girlfriend in the US.Nice, quite and good looking girl, she was brought to the apartment by Tambe's girlfriend and we clique right away.So, apart from James, all the men were hooked up with ladies and it was going to be a memorable summer.I found my first job in Gainesville through the effort of Tambe.It was through an employment agency and we were sent right away to a saw packaging factory.The work was not that tedious and involved very little heavy lifting.We worked eight hour shifts from Monday to Friday and got paid very decent wages, way above the minimum wage that I got in Clemson.We had the weekends free to ourselves and that was mainly when Kathy would come over.The work also made you tired, most of the weekend was also spend catching up to some rest.Beer is relatively cheap in the US, especially the made in USA brand.The alcoholic contain is also not too high.So we did party quite a bit.Muller did not drink, but he made up for that chasing skirts.He had a hugh reputation before moving oversees and he did his best to keep it up.I and Tambe did stick to your one girlfriend and I believed Tambe did end up having a child with his.I did not stay that long in Gainesville.Anyway, we played soccer and did some jogging in a nearby community college.Tambe had tried out for football at one time, so he was in pretty good shape.I was also and we did join a soccer team that took part in a soccer league competition.The job a the sawmill lasted for about a month before the agency informed us that our services were not needed anymore.Muller helped find us employment in a chicken factory.There are lots of them in Gainesville and the job is not easy at lot.When we weren't doing some heavy lifting, you were required to stand on your feet for long hours packaging chicken nuggets as they go through a processing device.The noise out of the machines were also deafening.Anyway, it was summertime, the pay was good and one had to make some money for living expenses and tuition for fall.We visited some nightclubs, the clubs were decent, mostly trouble free and this provided us with an opportunity to bond further with the ladies.I did start doing a bit of reader during the weekends, to sharpen my language skills. I bought most of the novels from the local supermarket.Best novel I read during this period, late John Deloren's"Hard Driving".During the holidays the household got larger went Cletus arrived from Cameroon.He was a relative of Muller.Quite and shy fellow who was a good story teller.A lot of "manyu"people lived and worked in Gainesville.I use to make a joke that if you came to the US, lived in Gainesville and return home, it will be as if you had never left Cameroon.The new immigrants did work hard though.The ladies put in as much working hours as the men and they had a lot to say about the quality of women that the guys were going out with.The summer holidays was almost coming to an end and I decide to leave for Clemson.James stayed behind and planned on returning to school after the summer was over.Tambe accompanied me for the drive from Gainesville to Clemson and we took turns driving in a quite summer morning towards my destination.We arrived Clemson and met my brother who had stayed on for the summer to continue his research.Tambe met him and spilled out all our holiday secrets.