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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, July 15, 2008

American Ninja 4

Interesting night back at the training center after what has been a long, action packed week. We watched first a sed video but totally true about the struggle kids fight against HIV/AIDS. It was so different watching the video, Touching Tiny Lives, when living in the country and seeing it first hand. We then watched a lighter movie called "American Ninja 4: Anihalation" which was filmed here in Lesotho, was directed by a RPCV, the main good ninja was playing the part of a PCV, and in which many PCV's in country played as extras. Hillarious B-rate movie.
In the last couple of weeks I have visited Bouthe-Buthe, climbed two amazing plateaus (one was Thaba Bosiu), spent the day walking to another training site and getting my hair cut on the very top of the large hill in the center of town, watched my little brother chase the cat, helped remove more corn from the cob, had a visit by the chief, caught a pan full of oil on fire, taught children "the Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "If You Are Happy and You Know It" and sang it with them on stage at our community fundraiser, helped stage said community fuindraiser, enjoyed two amazing sunsets, watched Saturn pass Mars, spoken more Sesotho in one day than I have the whole first few weeks, and still am in love with this country. This weekend we get to go hiking in another national park, the next we find out where our actual sites are, at the end of next week we say goodbye to our training villages, the next we move in. So much and time is going by so fast.

1 comments:

Denny said...

Touching Tiny Lives is powerful and dramatic. I am working hospice in Boise, ID and have founded a pediatric hospice however, there is no comparison to the challenges faced by the Basotho. I am grateful for you and your mission there and wish you the very best in not only touching their lives but allowing them to touch yours! Enjoy the journey!

Dennis Kelly (Meg's dad)