Author: Karly

I’m so grateful that my mom and dad were able to come visit me for three whole weeks in Southern Africa. We traveled through Lesotho and all around South Africa together. This blog post is dedicated to the time that they spend in my current country of residence, Lesotho: Prior to arrival, I was a… Continue reading Mom and Dad Commute to Lesotho

Part of being a Peace Corps Volunteer is having secondary projects. For Education volunteers, our main job is teaching classes, but we are also tasked with finding other needs to address within our community. So whether it’s coaching Grassroots Soccer (refer to previous post), building latrines, starting a piggery, or building a library, secondary projects… Continue reading Library Project

The last day of school was June 6, which began the start of my winter break. Since it started, I have been non-stop busy for the past few weeks and that this is the first time that I’ve been able to update my blog this month! The first part of my time off was spent… Continue reading Winter Break

In Peace Corps Lesotho, we have a monthly newsletter, called the Khotso (Peace), for volunteers and staff to share with each other various things about volunteering, news, information, etc. We also have several committees to support different aspects of being a volunteer. One of those committees is the Diversity Committee, which was designed to support… Continue reading Diversity Article

Many PCV’s in Lesotho have been quoting Game of Thrones (TV show/book series): “Winter is Coming”. Being from California, I’m not really sure why they are saying this because it feels like winter is already here. And like the Game of Thrones books series that has 2 more books to be published, there are good… Continue reading Winter is Coming

Because the Peace Corps is a government agency with government funding, each Peace Corps country is tasked with measuring the impact of volunteers and reporting to the headquarters. I haven’t really had time in the past couple of weeks to write a blog article about Lesotho because every little bit of electricity my laptop gets… Continue reading Data Collection

 Regarding most of the things that I do in a bathroom, I’ve been trained not to do or talk about in public. Whether its illegal or socially unacceptable or just considered private, it doesn’t matter because none of those restrictions exist in Lesotho. While volunteering in Lesotho, I’ve been accustomed to witnessing or discussing the… Continue reading That’s nice.

Version of the Durban slogan, city with the highest population of Indian people outside of India. With Easter break being our first opportunity for vacation, we decided to go to Durban: relatively close to Lesotho, can be reached using public transportation, and has a beach with warm weather (similar climate to Southern California). I’m glad… Continue reading “There’s no need to hurry, when we have curry!”

After the first 3 months at site, the education volunteers that all came in October went back to our original training villages for 5 days of training. We participated in training sessions including language, challenges at site, mental health and classroom management. Going into the training, I was so excited to see everyone again that… Continue reading More Training

Before exams, is a week of studying, called revision week. I have been working hard to prepare my students – giving practice exams, classwork, homework and as much help as I can give. This is followed by grading and giving as much feedback as possible.  This week is exam week, which should really be exam… Continue reading Exam Week