13 February 2009 Today was a good day. We had Peace Corps visitors in Jericho. Shawna(Sorry if I spelled it wrong), who works at the Southern Africa Desk in Washington DC came to visit and see how PC South Africa is using PEPFAR money. IN Jericho, there are three PEPFAR funded projects by Peace Corps Volunteers: [...]

November was an interesting month. It started off with a bag, Obama’s election and lots of celebrations in the USA and the RSA(Republic of South Africa). From the last post, you know that we stayed up all night and had a nice party. For most of November, I did nothing. November is the month in [...]

Tuesday Night at the Kgoathe house. Seems normal, but this is no normal night. Rapula, Boitumelo, and Mmabatho are cooking energetically and thinking about the future. “I wonder what will happen?” “I’m a little nervous. I hope it’s not like last time…or the time before that.” Earlier that day Rapula and Mmabatho travelled to Brits [...]

Since it has been a rainy day today and one of the few that I have not had six things planned to do, I have been posting blogs and surfing the web, trying to catch up with my US existence. One of the ways that I do this is by visiting one of my favorite [...]

Posting 3 of 3: If you have not yet, please read Rainy Day Updates and September Update (below) As I said in the previous posting, the month started with our Mid-Service Training just outside of Pretoria. MST was great to see our fellow volunteers and hear what everyone is doing. We got together to get ideas [...]

Posting 2 of 3: If you haven’t read it yet, please read Rainy Day Updates below I started September by going to the Pre Service Training for the new education group that arrived in July. They had just returned from visiting their new homes in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and KwaZulu Natal. They were very stressed and many [...]

It’s a rainy day in the North West Province. After a lazy day with a little gardening, I thought that I would sit down and give an update on my blog as to what Robi and I have been doing. I went on to my own blog and realized that I have not posted in [...]

Had a long day today. Woke up and went to Mafale Primary, my Key School. They had a Grade R (K) learner hit by a car and killed last Friday. I don’t know what is worse, that the child was killed or that I am not surprised. More people are die due to a road [...]

After all these months, I thought it would be nice to give you all a tour of our grounds. So come along with me on a wonderful adventure. We live in Jericho village in the North West Province about 1 hour from Pretoria by car. As you come into town on the only tar road, you [...]

I wanted to thank all of you who emailed with concerns about the violence in South Africa against foreigners. To calm all of you, these attacks are not happening in the rural villages, where Peace Corps Volunteers live. And the Peace Corps security staff is keeping a close eye on what is happening, so we [...]

IT’S FREEZING HERE!!! Not kidding. It gets down to freezing at night, then up to 75F during the day, in the sun. I am now realizing that we are near Antarctica. Last week, Robi and I went to Limpopo, the northern province in South Africa, and passed the sign for the Tropic of Capricorn. We [...]

Well, I have been trying for what seemed like forever to get Picasa up and running, and I think that I have finally done it. The URL is http://picasaweb.google.com/wmarbury. If there are any problems, let me know, so that I can change them. This Installment is : Mozambique Mozambique from our travels over Christmas http://picasaweb.google.com/wmarbury/Mozambique, and Longtom, Sabie, Pilgrim's [...]