by Louise from Cameroon

Since April 2018 I am one of the happy housemates in the volunteershouse and I feel really at home here. Oh yes, I really do!  At the moment there are four of us living together (the lovely Gentille, the lovely Hannah, the lovely Nele and myself). Everyone is very friendly and nice. Before moving to the volunteershouse, I used to live in a student dorm in the city of Dortmund, and that’s why I really appreciate being in the volunteershouse now: this huge space that is at our disposal! We have the opportunity to eat together and we do that as often as possible. And we really enjoy that so much! Each time when we cook and eat together, it reminds me of my childhood in Cameroon, where we always ate together with the family.

The volunteershouse is not only a house for us, where we volunteers live together, but it is a place to have breakfast together, celebrate birthday party together, eat together. Since I also like to cook and like being a hostess, I take every opportunity to invite other people to us (for example, if one of us has a birthday, we have the biblecircle of my gospel choir and so on …). Then I have the opportunity to use our kitchen to prepare something delicious. And then it’s like a treat for me, if that tastes delicious and the guests are satisfied.