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Hey ladies, I have now been a teacher for 5 months, and let me tell you… I have taken for granted the true sanctity of teachers. This job is such a strange mix of frustration, pride, success, failure, disappointment, overexertion, and happiness. You are a doctor, educator, therapist, and parent all wrapped into one person. What an exhausting job. Foundational skills, those primarily learned in grades K–4, are far more essential than I ever realized. Now that I teach, I can cl

One thing about being a Peace Corps volunteer is that people have questions. So here are a few of the questions I get asked most often. ⸻ “What do you eat?” I have written about this separately on a couple of occasions, but briefly here, you have access to absolutely everything you have the ENERGY to make. I am lazy. Ke botsoa. So I eat a lot of things that give me energy to live but don’t necessarily nourish my foodie soul. Beans and rice, canned chicken and rice, tuna and c

The WhatsApp Shakespeare: Raye A wonderful song for this edition. Considering that the main form of communication in Lesotho is through WhatsApp. “Keneuoe, you need to have 3 OR 5 boyfriends! How else will you correctly choose who will be your husband…” -My Sesotho Mom Society has always seemed to favor monogamy, or, the alternative, is it may say unsavory things about your character. A stink that would follow you long after you have left that environment. At least that’s how

One thing about being a Peace Corps volunteer is that people have questions. So here are a few of the questions I get asked most often. ⸻ “What’s the toilet situation?” As a volunteer, you’ll have your own private pit latrine + a designated pee bucket. And before you panic, it becomes normal faster than you’d think. Each volunteer is provided a latrine with a lock and key, which sounds comforting until you realize the local spiders, flies, bees, and mystery insects do not res