Hey! Back again! My school is mildly killing my soul so i keep escaping. This next week is just exams anyway and the more i avoid invigilation duties, the better. especially since i suck at it, because you see the kids looking at each other's papers, and the other teachers just whack 'em with a big stick, but i still can't bring myself to get medievil on their asses. and also i really don't want to take their tests and give them zeros because the exam is their only grade, we're not allowed to include assignments or class participation or anything into the grade, and these poor kids' families are going hungry to pay their school fees, and then to f-them over by giving them a zero? i can't! ugh so i'm just ineffective to the extreme. and also this is all me rationalizing the fact that i'm missing a week of school in order to bum around the capital and go to all these random parties happening.
A lot of volunteers hate coming to Maseru because it's all big (by our standards- there are about 500,000 people here) and busy and smelly and kind of overwhelming but once you get past all of that it becomes the land of electric lights, avoiding work, couches, vegetables, cheese, the internet, and movies! I love doing nothing and seeing other volunteers and hanging out and staying up after dark and trying to remember what on earth i used to do online all day long, and eating pizza and all sorts of wondrous activities.
When here i exist almost solely on vegetables, cheese, and whiskey. it's beautiful (but expensive) I'll be here until this coming weekend so i'll be able to respond promptly to emails, etc. My official reason for staying is that i need to compile/edit the rogue newsletter i've become the editor of. This issue i'm trying to make electronic so i can save on photocopy/stampage fees but i need to locate a scanner... if it does become electronic i may be able to upload it to the 'net so it's possible you all can see, and marvel at the fact that you don't understand a word of it becasue it's all so lesotho-centric! hoo-rah!
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Rebecca (Boxes) Goes to Lesotho to Learn Some Kids About Sci-wow-ence and Maths!
p.s. This blog does not in any way reflect or represent the views of the American Peace Corps.
About Me
- Rebecca
- I like science, cheese, whiskey, glitter, mud, the ocean, dancing, and people.
My Address
send me letters!
Dearest Miss Rebecca Reilly
P.O. BOx 120
Thaba-Tseka 550
Lesotho,
Southern Africa
(make sure you write Southern Africa, not South Africa, or, surprisingly enough, the letters will be sent to an entirely different country! one named "South Africa")
if you send a package, write "jesus loves you" or something on them to instill the fear of god in customs officials or make the package as unappealing as possible to pillage.
Dearest Miss Rebecca Reilly
P.O. BOx 120
Thaba-Tseka 550
Lesotho,
Southern Africa
(make sure you write Southern Africa, not South Africa, or, surprisingly enough, the letters will be sent to an entirely different country! one named "South Africa")
if you send a package, write "jesus loves you" or something on them to instill the fear of god in customs officials or make the package as unappealing as possible to pillage.
2 comments:
The Peace Corps teacher of Science,
who went to N'mibia to catch lions,
but in Maseru she does party
and to class she is tardy
my, my, this young girl of defiance.
Cute rhyme, dude. Glad to see you're getting out into the big city to enjoy a life of decadence every once in awhile! I go to Nairobi to eat delicious, expensive Indian food once or twice a month. ;)
Alan
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