If you’re considering serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, or you're curious to learn more about what it’s really like to move away from luxuries like electricity, toilets, showers and running water, join me on July 19th, for my Peace Corps presentation, in Orange County, California. I plan to delve into the reality of working as an Continue Reading
How Do I Improve My Students’ English?
My counterpart and I gave grade 5 the composition part of their test. We selected a picture from a book with an African boy sitting under a tree, looking at the contents of a shoe box. The scenery depicts life in rural Lesotho with typical Basotho rondavels, chickens pecking at bits of corn and other kids playing in a Continue Reading
Working as a Peace Corps Volunteer Can be Tricky
Working as a Peace Corps volunteer in a foreign culture can be tricky. On the one hand, you need to be respectful and not impose your ways on the people you work with, and on the other hand, you want to improve things. It can be a frustrating balancing act, and last week, I had a moment when I spoke out, because I knew what would happen if I kept Continue Reading
Electricity Has Arrived In My Village-Gutsy Living
I did not want to make any announcements about the arrival of electricity in my rural village in Lesotho, until I could switch on a light in my rondavel. Other Peace Corps Volunteers told me not to get my hopes up when holes were being dug for the electric poles in February. “I’ve had poles in my village for more than a year, Continue Reading
A Hardship I Did Not Expect
Shaka, the skinny mutt, looks at me with her kind, hazel eyes. She’s starving, but she never begs. She sleeps on the step in front of my rondavel, trying to grab some warmth from the gap under my door. When I’m ready for my sunrise walk, Shaka, clings to my heels. I don’t want her to follow me. I want to be alone, in my own thoughts as I Continue Reading