Patevy
@patevy
French expat in Cameroon
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About me
French
Lives in Douala
Speaks Français et anglais (en cours d'amélioration)
Registration: 28 May 2010
About
Occupation
I am Businessman.
My expat journey
Douala, Cameroon
Family and professional installation
Both in charge of collections in Douala and first supporter of my self-employed husband in Limbé
Family reunions, different professional activities every day, head-full projects
Separations due to work... but we get nothing for nothing!
Parthenay, France
Administrative assistant 1st class in a town hall
“Management” secretariat: accounting management, budget preparation, public reception (physical and telephone), typing of documents, preparation of commissions and municipal meetings, civil status, recording of incoming and outgoing mail, planning management
No day is the same
Geographical stability and absence of challenges
Bertoua, Cameroon
I first left as a cooperant 2004-2005 with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after a year in China 2003-2004 (teaching French in a private language center), to be coordinator of a schooling project for neglected children.
Returning to France to give birth to a little boy, I returned to Cameroon in December 2006 for another year during which I worked in a Cameroonian NGO working for the professional and social integration of young Cameroonian adults. I returned to France at the end of 2007.
December 2008, I left to be director of a supermarket-bakery in Bertoua for another 2 years.
Returned to France since November 17, 2010.
Coordinator of a project for out-of-school children.
Worker with young adults to promote their social and professional integration.
Director of a supermarket-bakery.
Secretary in the territorial civil service.
The diversity of meetings and exchanges, the richness of difference, the acquisition of new professional experiences and the icing on the cake: meeting and marrying the man who has shared my life since 2005.
A certain distance created with the family... but which quickly disappears as soon as its members come to visit this new universe.
Kunming, China
Teacher of Foreign French Language in the French Cultural Center of Kunming (Yunnan Province) as a French cooperant.
The diversity and multitude of human encounters and personal service.
Distance from family in France sometimes difficult to manage
Parthenay, France
Poitevine by birth with schooling done almost everywhere (Parthenay, Poitiers, Lille, Nantes)
1st position: communications and accounting manager in an architecture firm
2nd position: youth employment in the “social service” department of a town hall
3rd position: public service holder as administrative assistant... in several town halls