dumela bo mma le bo rra
Hello my friends
I'm here just outside of Gaborone and it's about 740 pm . I just finished a big dinner of grits, "flaky fish", carrots in pineapple juice, butter beans, and of course, fanta =). Tomorrow I go to my training village to finally meet my host family - I'm so nervous and excited but definitely ready to start this next stage. This village will be very typical to where I will work for the remaining 2 years after training.
So far we've had some great language lessons - there's one instructor for every 3/4 trainees for both language and cultural lessons - very individualized so very nice. Ican say only a few greetings now, the peace corps strongly believe in their own "methods" - no dictionary, no english translations (bc with setswana direct translations don't really apply properly), just listening closely, observing body language, and repetition galore! figuring things out in that way is definitely different than any other language class i've been in but it seems to work well if if keep practicing....some new things ive learned....when one goes to visit another house, at the door they might call "ko ko" (kind of like knock knock/ hello there)...and then the host can let them in (or not! =/), t's and g's are kind of silent - t's are clicked and g's are like throaty h's...it's actually quite fun=) hehe. anyway hopefully i can tell you more soon...i don't expect to have computer access regularly - esp in the next 2 months...but please do send letters and I will try my very best to reply.
The people here (other pcvs and batswana) are all wonderful, friendly, interesting, (very interesting actually) I feel lucky tohave found such a good group of people to spend the next 2 years with...i'm getting to know many of them gradually and we're all looking forward together... I have been thinking a lot about the work I'm hoping to do....I wouldjust love to work in the orphan home-care program but if things don'twork out that way - and that may be the case - I'd really like to work with some pcvs to start up some sort of recreational club/group for the kids - apparently most of the younger kids just don't have that in the rural parts - no football teams, no clubs....something to be apart of, something that is somehow empowering and just fun=)...those are my thoughts I hope you are all well - missing you all...love, me!
I'm here just outside of Gaborone and it's about 740 pm . I just finished a big dinner of grits, "flaky fish", carrots in pineapple juice, butter beans, and of course, fanta =). Tomorrow I go to my training village to finally meet my host family - I'm so nervous and excited but definitely ready to start this next stage. This village will be very typical to where I will work for the remaining 2 years after training.
So far we've had some great language lessons - there's one instructor for every 3/4 trainees for both language and cultural lessons - very individualized so very nice. Ican say only a few greetings now, the peace corps strongly believe in their own "methods" - no dictionary, no english translations (bc with setswana direct translations don't really apply properly), just listening closely, observing body language, and repetition galore! figuring things out in that way is definitely different than any other language class i've been in but it seems to work well if if keep practicing....some new things ive learned....when one goes to visit another house, at the door they might call "ko ko" (kind of like knock knock/ hello there)...and then the host can let them in (or not! =/), t's and g's are kind of silent - t's are clicked and g's are like throaty h's...it's actually quite fun=) hehe. anyway hopefully i can tell you more soon...i don't expect to have computer access regularly - esp in the next 2 months...but please do send letters and I will try my very best to reply.
The people here (other pcvs and batswana) are all wonderful, friendly, interesting, (very interesting actually) I feel lucky tohave found such a good group of people to spend the next 2 years with...i'm getting to know many of them gradually and we're all looking forward together... I have been thinking a lot about the work I'm hoping to do....I wouldjust love to work in the orphan home-care program but if things don'twork out that way - and that may be the case - I'd really like to work with some pcvs to start up some sort of recreational club/group for the kids - apparently most of the younger kids just don't have that in the rural parts - no football teams, no clubs....something to be apart of, something that is somehow empowering and just fun=)...those are my thoughts I hope you are all well - missing you all...love, me!
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