I missed the bus, and that is something i will nevah evah evah evah do again

two of my co teachers outside school. notice the ravine of death behind them. yes my school is on a precipice. these teachers both have amazing names, as well, the man is ntate lebesele (milkand) chelete (money) and the woman is puseletso (just sound that one out).
some of my students at katse dam, being too cool
yes, it snowed already. mothergherkins. Thaba Tseka: SO COLD. and it's only autumn.





Today was amazing! we decided to be bad irresponsible teachers and not go back to tt today, and instead go tomorrow. we even woke up 2 hours earlier than we needed to to catch the bus home, but were having entirely too much fun laying around giggling, and i was the warmest girl evar with 4 blankets, so we stayed.

we went to this little border town in south africa that was like a dream. it's only 30 minutes away, and is so different from lesotho! there are real grocery stores there, too. and all sorts of cute restaurants, and funny looking boers. we ate brunch (yes, brunch! it even exists in africa!) and it was this cute place with a windy garden and there was this family there with a fat naked baby they kept putting in this fountain to take creepy anne geddesesque pictures of it. Then we went to a real grocery store where there was a "POTATO CHIP CRISIS!!" a huge sign informed us that due to a shortage of something or other, they might not be able to stock all our favourite brands/flavors of potato chip.
it's been a wonderful wonderful weekend with victoria and madeline, i'm not sure if we're capable of not laughing. giggle triplets? who knows. oh! and readers of mine, check out victoria's blog: nosoapplicable.blogspot.com. she's going through all the stuff i am, and she is much more in touch with her brain than i am, so she actually talks about all the myriad emotional crises we're going through whereas i prefer to ramble about specific instances and things. i love victoria because she balances me out, and helps to force me to talk about what's going on in my head. and my dear mad, i never see because she's on the other side of the country, but she's one of the wittiest people i've ever met, and i love how down to earth she is. so there's my synopsis of my cronies. and i love them.

this coming weekend i'm going out to another volunteer's site about 2 hrs from me, they're holding a children's health day i'm going to aid (possibly by way of face painting?!), where we're trying to get all the 0-5 year olds in teh area screened for malnutrition and HIV, and also dole out free measles vaccines, and talk about eating healthy and other various practices that lead to a successfully alive child. hopefully we'll do a children's health day in tt also someday. then after that i'm coming back to teh capital for a meeting, so i'll be able to internet some more. all around fun times

ok, love you all. and i continue to think you ALL SUCK MY GOSHDARN UNMENTIONABLES for failing utterly at keeping in contact with me. PLEASE send me communications. if you're going to refuse to send me letters, i'll also love emails. i miss you, tell me how you are, suckers.