Friday, March 27, 2009

The Questionable Inner Workings of Youth Today

Questions I've Received Lately
1. What did you eat for breakfast
2. Can i see a person with HIV and AIDS
3. Who is the new president
4. If i have sex with 5 boys in one day, will i get sick or pregnant
5. If i have sex with 5 boys unprepared, will i get sick or pregnant
6. If i have one baby that is 12 months, can i make another
7. Are there people on other planets
8. What do these words mean: admire, fortune, conflict, fakalakabusted
9. When is maths club
10. How old are you/ How many are you in your family
11. Is Eminem your father
12. Is Rihanna your cousin
13. Where are China, Japan, and Brazil
14. What is osmosis
15. If my period is only 3 days do i have a problem
16. By the time you want to be married you should tell me
17. What can i do to make the labia grow longer what is the function of the labia what happens if they are too long
18. What if Mugabe can say he wants to marry you will you agree
19. Are there poor people in America
20. Do you have cows in America
21. If i want to marry the American, what can i do
22. Madam at Ha Matala (a village) at Maseru (district) there was a man who rape the pig why do that man do that to the pig when there are many prostitutes
23. If there are pimples on my genitals do i have a problem
24. If i make unprotected sex with my boyfriend and he tells me a week later that he is HIV positive, will i have HIV
25. How do i factorise
26. Am i at high risk if i make abortion/ will it be wrong if i can make abortion
27. Is oral sex nice? What is it?
28. Madam my brother says he will marry you he is very handsome so what if you can say o.k.

Things I Wonder About
1. Why bees always hang around the pit of my latrine so i'm scared to sit down because they'll sting my butt
2. If kitty AIDS is as prevalent as human AIDS and will parker get it because she's a cat-slut
3. If the real GRE is as easy as the practice problems in my "Cracking the GRE" book
4. If Michelle Obama is dead. A student today asked if she was because they heard she was in a fatal car accident. [Note: it was Zimbabwe's PM's wife who died]
5. If my class discussions about sex, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS are actually helping/educating my students at all
6. Have I become a glorified condom machine?
7. If my new haircut makes me look butch (almost nobody at school noticed, because here everyone's hair is fake and changes dramatically every month or so, so they don't realize it's a big deal for a whitey to lose that much hair)
8. A student gave me a cob of corn in class today. Is this the Lesotho equivalent of giving the teacher an apple?

Madam, You Look So Sharp!

My skool won a debate (topic: should HIV testing be compulsory in Lesotho) and so the next week friday we had no classes and there was a DJ and we made a crap ton of samp (corn based porridgy dish that's SO tasty) and the teachers had to dress in the student uniform, and the students got to dress in private clothes, it was so cute, these kids dressed to the nines. anyway, on with the photos:
The "hip hop boys"
all the ladiez in the kitchen

woo hoo first day of skool!



Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Great Shearing












Before:

The first cut
notice the cow in the background trying to eat my head

Almost there.... Taking a break to menace said cowDone!