Up, up, up and away

It’s been a very busy few weeks, so sorry about the delay in posting. First piece of news- I am no longer sick! I took a day off from classes since I felt like passing out every time I moved and was still running a major fever. A day of rest plus some serious antibiotics […]

Mountain Cats and Demon Taxis

This past week I was able to travel through the country and visit a volunteer who has been serving here for a year. Traveling here is always an adventure. For this trip, that adventure included fitting 17 people in a taxi van built for 14, a 4 hour wait for a car to move, dirt […]

Thunder and music

Three, two, one… go! Time to celebrate the noise of my new home. Everywhere there is conversation. While I still don’t understand much, I do understand some and that is thrilling. There are roosters and cow bells and bleeting sheep. There are screams and giggles of playing children and music blaring out car windows as […]

Welcome to Lesotho

Lumela!! That means Hello and is pronounced doo-mey-la, for anyone out there who doesn’t speak Sesotho. Pretty safe to assume that includes most of you. I don’t either but I’m learning quickly. I’m nearly done with my first week in this wonderful country and already have several hours of language training a day, among other […]

And we’re off!

The title says it all. This morning I said goodbye to home and all things familiar. I spent the day hoping airports and eating little bags of pretzels. And so I crossed the country, staring out the window at the ground below, contemplating the gravity of the adventure I had begun, and starting to let […]

The Journey Begins

A couple days shy of a month out and I got the blog up and running. In a few short weeks, I will be heading off on my next great adventure- serving as a Volunteer in the Peace Corps. I’m heading off to Lesotho, a mountain kingdom in Southern Africa, where I will teach math […]