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Hello, Lumelang, Khotso! everyone. This blog is my way of staying connected and letting everyone know about all my exciting adventures in Peace Corps Lesotho. My position with Peace Corps is as CHED which stands for Community Health and Economic Development. My focus within this will be working with agricultural practices at a High School and hoping to work more with medicinal gardening at the local clinic. This blog is going to consist of personal journal entries I have written previous to when I am able to access a computer and general thoughts on living, working, and being a part of the Basotho culture. All ideas in the blog and opinions are my own and do not represent those of the Peace Corps.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Cheese Steak

We are headed out of Philly tomorrow and finished with training about an hour ago. It was two very intense days where they crammed us full of very useful information I hope I remember half of. Luckily my Training group is fairly small and so we were all able to bond pretty well before the long, long flight to Lesotho. We spent yesterday morning touring. It is so crazy how different it is here on the East Coast as it is over in little Ol' Oregon. There is so much history and its the foundation of our country. I love it! But now, its back to packing, wishing I had not been so scared and brought more luggage even thought I could not possibly carry more. I half about half of what some people have but really don't need much more. Super fun, I discovered that the strap of my duffel was designed to pop off... which it does... frequently.... but it works. Lesotho is going to be amazing and like I told the group right now I feel "nervous in a good way like spring being tightened, any second I'm just going to Ka Boing (yes, said ka boing) and its going to be awesome." We went and had a fun time Karaoke-ing it up last night, check out some of my friends blogs, there might be some pics. Everyone is so nice and its nice to know that we are all here to support and encourage one another.

Next time you hear from me, I will be on the other side of the world.

PS... if someone wanted to send me maps that would be really cool, I didn't even think of those. And friends, good friends, wonderful friends, all of whom are getting married etc., you better friggin send me lots of pics!

LOVE!

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