Category: PC Lesotho

Hello family and friends and blog readers! I briefly want to share with you a secondary project that I have been working on with another PCV, Jody. One of the main goals (#3) of Peace Corps is to share information about our host country with Americans. Both of us have felt that the most important… Continue reading Humans of Lesotho

Pre-Service training (PST) is the 10 week period where all the volunteers of a group learn about the language, culture, and information that they will need to know for the next 2 years as a volunteer. This week, I was fully involved with the new education trainees – future volunteer teachers like myself.  In the… Continue reading PST: Round 2

Moea O Mongata (It is too windy) This is the phrase that I have been hearing basically every day since I’ve been back from consolidation and even before I left for consolidation. And it is completely true – it is too windy. One of the cultural norms that we learned about during our training is… Continue reading Moea O Mongata!

Today marks the one year anniversary of arriving to Lesotho. A lot has happened, but it has also gone by very fast. I survived 10 weeks of training, I started teaching my own classes for the first time, I started a library, I’ve explored 6 of the 10 districts in Lesotho, I survived a country… Continue reading One Year Reflections

Sorry for the delayed update, but if you haven’t already heard, I am back in Lesotho. During the time we were in South Africa, my favorite thing was the survivor style cooking competition that the hotel staff hosted for us. It was part of a “field day” event; there were all sorts of outdoor relay-type… Continue reading End of Consolidation

First off, I want to let everyone know that I am safe. There has been political instability in Lesotho, but there is no need to worry about me at all. The short summary is that the army general and the prime minister disagreed so the army attempted to stage a coup, the police dis-banned (but… Continue reading Consolidation Vacation

In the villages, it is common to see children running around, playing anywhere. They don’t need permission or supervision. I’m not really sure what they do most of the time, but the kids are a part of the village life. Two of my host siblings, a boy and a girl, are still in primary school,… Continue reading Playing Around

Lebitso la ka ke Palesa. In Lesotho, all names are taken from Sesotho words – my name, Palesa, is the word for flower. Like in the US, there are common names, but there are many grammatical variations of the same Sesotho word which makes names often confusing. For example, “Kea leboha”, meaning “I thank you”… Continue reading Lebitso la ka ke … (My name is …)