Peace Corps Goal #2: To help promote a better understanding of America on the part of other people. Peace Corps Goal #3: To help promote a better understanding of other people on the part of Americans. I taught my teachers the word “fart” today. Previously they used the term “make carbon.” They have now moved [...]
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I was planning on putting up a series about my travels from June and July, but things have changed and it doesn’t seem appropriate right now. I’ll do my best to get something on Mozambique up in the next few days. But now, just this.
What do you do during your down time Right now, in the winter, I am gone from before sun up until after sun down so there isn’t much to do during the week. I get home, cook something, clean up some, maybe do some other random chores or little things around the house. Sometimes I [...]
Good news everyone. I have bought a new phone that can read g-mail so I can now get all your e-mails at my house. Since I am reading them on my phone there are some rules. 1) No attachments. This means any thing with pictures or other documents attached I can not see unti I [...]
What do you do during your down time Right now, in the winter, I am gone from before sun up until after sun down so there isn’t much to do during the week. I get home, cook something, clean up some, maybe do some other random chores or little things around the house. Sometimes I [...]
What is your favorite and least favorite part of every day? The least favorite part of the day is easy. Right now it is winter and it is cold. Getting out of my warm bed and walking to school is less than fun. It is even worse since my destination is actually colder than the [...]
It’s a small village with my house just about at one end and the school at the far edge, so this gives a pretty good idea of the size and what is actually here. All these photos were taken on Tuesday June 1st, starting at approximately 7:30am. In the first photo, we have the two [...]
From Friday June 4 Easily one of my favorite days in this country so far. We are one week into exams and I caught up on all my grading on Thursday, plus had no exam to give this morning, so I could go in late. One of the other teachers, Ntate Kao, and I have [...]
I sent home about 3GB of pictures back home a few weeks ago. My mom picked out a sampling and there are about 140 at the link below. I haven’t been able to go through them yet so I’m not really sure what is in there. It is also on a Shutterfly album and I [...]
I looked at a calendar the other day and realized that I left America 6 months ago. That went pretty fast. Seems even faster when a month from now, I will be 25% done with my job. The time flies. I’ve been busy up in my village the last few weeks. Right now I am [...]
Never in my life have I been around a group of people who are as finicky eaters as in Peace Corps. There are the obligatory vegetarians, of course (I think 7 total). Then there are the people who will not drink anything carbonated. I did not know such a person existed, but out of our [...]
A feeling for what a day in school and of teaching is like and your relationship with students and other teachers I think I gave a pretty decent description of a day at school in that “A Day in the Life” post, but if there are more questions, feel free to ask. I didn’t really [...]
Like I said in my “A Day in the Life” post, I can get kind of caught up in the more out of the ordinary (for me) events and the normal things (well normal for me, not for you) can go by the wayside. This is why it is good to ask questions. Just a [...]
Maybe this post has been a little long in coming. It has been easy for me to tell you all of only the big, exciting things that are out of the ordinary, especially after I have been here for a little while and the day-to-day things have become more normal and less noteworthy. So here [...]
This is one of those things that I wrote back in the summer (February 20) with the thought of putting it up back then, but never got around to typing it. Just a silly little writing sample type thing that kept me busy one afternoon.
This morning I walked out my front door with the low [...]
It is April and in Mokhotlong, that means winter. Been getting chilly the last few weeks and everybody has been warning me to brace for the real cold of June and July. Full preparation of the home will start soon, but I’ve been super busy recently.
First I had “Phase III” of my training. Basically my [...]
I just bought a 30W solar setup and am having it brought up to my village in a few weeks, so I can have my computer and entertainment for the winter. I am also trying to get a Science Club together and want to have a wind/bicycle generator both as a project for the club [...]
So anything I said about there nothing happening at my site has been completely and utterly wrong since the beginning of March. Or my standards for entertainment have dropped considerably. Probably both.
Last post I mentioned that I had been at my site for 3 weeks and nothing happening. I have spent all the time between [...]
Been super busy the last few weeks and am now in the big city of Maseru for a few days with electricity, hot showers, and internet. I’ll type up a good entry on what’s been happening and throw it on here in the next couple of days. Here’s a quick preview
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What’s shaking, everybody? I’ve been hanging out up in my village the last few weeks, so I haven’t had much contact with the outside world. I had a couple of nice quiet weekends alone. Got in some good hiking and took some pictures. I’ve been trying to make friends out of the school community so [...]
Dear Kathy,
You might not remember, but I met you back in December. I was the one whose favorite Sesotho word was “ditamati” and paid to have you sing “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” in front of the whole village of Berea. You seem nice. Lets be friends.
I live in Mokhotlong, which is far away in the mountains, but [...]
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Hey Everybody, its February! Happy birthday, brother! Almost all good news. I’m really loving Mabuleng and Mokhotlong. Village life has been good to me. I like being in my little town with maybe 200 people and my 36 student school. It rained for a solid 2 weeks straight there, but has been gorgeous the last [...]
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Written Jan 13
So now that I am at site, I will be having more limited internet access. I can get some cell phone service in my house, but only near a certain window. I could probably walk 15 minutes up the hill to where there is full service to send out emails, but for now [...]
Hey everybody. Been a boring few days here with not much going on until swearing in on my birthday. Hopefully I can start to organize this blog and my entries more when I settle down because I have been having trouble remembering what I have mentioned and what I haven’t, but I’ve been getting a [...]
Hey everybody, just skipped out on a workshop to steal some internet time before they close. These are a few pictures of my new house in Mokhotlong along with the views from my front and back windows. Training is starting to wind down now. We had the language tests yesterday and all 29 of us [...]
This was taken on Chistmas eve at the training center. It was pushing 100, so a few of us pulled out the bucket bath buckets and went for a swim in our African pools.
Anyway, I just got back from my site visit up in Mokhotlong. Got to see my house and my family which were [...]
Hey everybody. Just got back to Maseru after moving out of Berea and ending CBT. There was a big feast that the whole willage came to and we got some awesome Basotho hats. Everybody is back at the training center with all our stuff, so it is very crowded. We are staying through Chistmas and [...]
First things first: Apologies to those who sent emails after my last post and I didn’t get a hcnace to respond to. I’m doing my best to get to all of them, but slow internet and limited time are taking a toll. Also, I m about to run out of internet time and I didn’t [...]
December 8, 2009
Hey everybody,
Sorry about the short email last week. It has been pretty busy here the last month. After a few days of traveling we finally landed in Lesotho on the 13th. Some bags went missing for a day but they all came back. Except for mine, which came a few days later short [...]
November 10
09:30am Leave Boston
11:11am Arrive Philadelphia
12:30pm Check into Hotel
01:30-7:00pm Registration & Orientation
November 11
01:30am Check out of hotel
02:00am Get on bus to JFK [...]
It has been a boring, pretty uneventful couple of months, but I have a feeling that all of that will start to change soon. With 50 some-odd days left before departure, the countdown is on. Hopefully I get the travel details soon, its a little frustrating not knowing when your last day with friends/family for [...]
Barely made my 10 day deadline to get in all my Passport and visa information mailed to DC and then an updated resume and “Letter of Aspiration” to the Lesotho office. Now I have nothing else official to do except to wait. I have been trying to find others who are going to be in [...]
So I called in and accepted my invitation today. Had to give a brief description of what I will be doing and that was it. Now onto filling out passport forms and fun things like that. For the time while I am over there, I will have two passports – my regular one, and a [...]
Got my long awaited package in the mail this morning. On November 11 I will be heading to the “Roof of Africa”, Lesotho (pronounced les-OO-too). I have a few days to read over everything they sent me before I have to call in and accept. Apparently they give me a little quiz over the phone [...]
Apparently Julie bought the no OCD argument. Sucker! From my Toolkit page:
Peace Corps sent you an invitation kit on July 15, 2009. Within 10 days of receiving your kit, please call us regarding your decision to accept or decline our invitation. If we do not hear from you within this period, the assignment may be [...]
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