I'm the most grown up mature well worded lady you've ever done met

Yeah! Wooo! Almost christmas!! And I just ate a ham and cheese sandwich and it was super fantastic. (notice the lack of cursing in that sentence. See me grow, change, become a better, less offensive person) AND it’s almost Christmas and I have the best presents evar that I made for all my co trainees but I can’t discuss them here because my blog is read by the wrong people. Also, Ben Klein’s mom, if you’re reading this, whut up. I hear you’re major cool.

So a couple weeks ago we lekhooa (white people) got to present a concert! Where we sing! And yes, it was as horrible as it sounds, especially because EVERYONE here from the age of 3 sings amazing and can harmonize perfectly. So we get up there in front of this audience of all my students and neighbors and family and everyone from the next 3 villages around and sang. We did some awesome sesotho songs, and some American ones. THE BEST was the umbrella song. Everybody in Lesotho loves it almost as much as I do. It’s like I’m home here, among my peers and fellow rihanna lovers. Anyway, anticipating the awful awful embarrassment of this occasion, Madeline and I had a little wine before hand. Possibly a lot of wine. It made me not care so much. OH also I should mention here that music concerts here are not like they are or may be in the states. Here it’s like a battle or something, people can pay any amount of money and call out any one or group of people to sing any song, or a song of their choosing. And you have to top that bid to get out of it. And I got called out to stand in front of the group and sing and dance, and another time when the students were singing I got called out to go up with them. I blushed a lot, and most of you know how truly bad my singing voice is, so that certainly didn’t help. But I got to call out a few of my extra cocky students to go sing. Unfortunately they don’t care because they’re all pop stars. Oh well.

And last week, we got to go hike a mountain, and then afterwards swim in the stream swimmin’ hole that you could slide down the rocks into a pool and it was a perfect day. Then we went and had a huge feast and danced around in circles to the Lesotho music (that i swear is all voiced by ja rule's cousin or something) with all of our language trainers. Then today we hiked a smaller mountain with no stream, but a lot of history. It’s where king moshoeshoe I (pronounced mah-shway-shway) freed his people from the boers and Lesotho came into existence. And I made a thousand pounds of fudge last night for another trainee’s birthday today. Last week I also made bread for the first time with mad and it came out great. I’m going to be sally homemaker by the time I return to the states. I’ve gotten really into indulging myself culinarily. I’ve become the pancake whisperer, last time I made peanut butter banana pancakes and they rocked. I like pancakes because I can make a bunch for dinner, and save some batter to have more for breakfast. And I often eat waay too much fudge in a sitting and get a tummy ache. And i made tortillas for breakfast burritos, and they turned out really well.

I got my first package! Thank you momma! It is just taking a long time because of Christmasi think, and the pension system ties up like 80% of the mail system here. But nobody but me is wearing my jacket and vest! And also I would like to congratulate my parents on being the awesomest married couple for 30 years now. Love you guys! Oh, and next package you send, can you throw in my jansport backpack? It’s in the box on my bookshelf in the closet I think.

Chicken thing update: I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re dinosaurs. I gave them corn the other day. I like them as long as they don’t come too close to me. I’m still afraid they’ll peck my face off. They are like chickens, but have longer legs and necks. And their only feathers are on their wings. They make meep meep noises. when they run past teh doorway to my roundavel i feel like i'm in prehistoric times with dinosaur herds milling about.


Things I now know, but did not before:
1. speed bumps here are called "humped zebra crossings", there are not specified areas for mutant zebras to cross the road.
2. when using my pee bucket multiple times at night, I need to wipe the rim, because condensation is not a myth.
3. if you stand in a doorway for too long, you will have a heavy flow.
4. if a woman walks through a herd of animals, she will become infertile.
5. vanilla banana oatmeal is very tasty
6. in sesotho, “banana” means little girls, and no I do not put them in my pancakes.
7. my 'me can open 40s of beer with her teeth. (they're denchers)
8. a good side effect of everyone thinking my freckles are a rash is that i haven't had a single marriage proposal yet, whereas all the other girls in my group have had several.
9. leatherman knives are sharp, and stabbing your hand with one hurts, and bleeds a LOT.
10. jamie lynn spears is preggers. OMG.
11. here you don't get pregnant, you fall pregnant. it's like a disease.
12. i have a recipe for muffins, i want to make them.
13. ke situlo, u 'na lula (that one's for diana. you know what it means. phonetically: kay see-too-lo, oo nnah doo-lah)


Hope everyone has good holidays!