Lumelang!
FINALLY Just a few pictures... I promise to post more when the internet is more cooperative in town. Enjoy!
Zoe and I just before our "Swearing In Ceremony" in Berea! All of the PCVs wore traditional seshweshwe's handmade for us by our host mothers or LCFs (Language and Cultural Facilitators- ie. our Sesotho teachers). Our families also all gifted us with the famous, Basotho hats, later during the ceremony!
Three of the most amazing LCFs a PCV could ever ask for, and more importantly, the reasons I passed my Language Proficiency Interview! L to R: 'Me Masebaqua, Limpho (ie. ME), 'Me Makabelo, and 'Me Lisebo. Training wouldn't have been the same without these amazingly patient and hilarious women!
My Host Family in Makola (my training village)!
Top (L to R): Limpho Mothobi (ie. ME), Matsie (my brother)
Bottom (L to R): Tsoanelo (my little sister), 'Me Malehlohonolo (my amazinghost mother), Thato (my baby sister), and Toka (my little brother). I miss them already!
Possibly the greatest photo that's been taken yet in Lesotho...
Around the second week of training, I took a trip with 4 or 5 of the guys out to Mokhotlong District (far eastern district, and about an 8 hr bus ride) in Lesotho for my "Host Volunteer Visit"... Somehow the boys bestowed the nick-name "Gaia" or "Mother Earth" on me.. And when it turned out I was a natural at gardening in Makola during the coming weeks, it stuck. :) So now, anything I say (whether brilliant or not) is frequently followed by chanting, "Gaia! Gaia!"
They insisted on a "Gaia" appropriate photo- Complete with Mike (far R) who runs MY world, and my loyal subjects paying homage. :) Haha
Taken while on my HVVisit in Mokhotlng District...
Gorgeous views o the Maluti Mountains in Eastern Lesotho!
Gorgeous views o the Maluti Mountains in Eastern Lesotho!
The whole gang after a gorgeous hike to the top of Thaba Bosiu (Mountain of the Night, a historic landmark and location of the founding of the Basotho nation by King Moshoeshoe I). You can't see it here, but the famous "Basotho Hat" mountain is in the background.
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