Ngwaga o mosha =) Happy New Year

I can't believe it's already been 1/2 a year in New Xade - -this makes me happy bc I've made it thus far, but it also makes me panic bc I still feel I have so much I could do, people I want to work with, etc.

Wish you could see all the things I'm seeing, meet the people I've met and wish I could, in turn, be there with you...for now though, sending pieces of New Xade your way...

-amazing sky - still, the most beautiful sunsets I've seen in Botswana have been from my front porch, in New Xade.

-little rascals- New Xade children at my doorstep - no matter how much they try my patience, no matter how many tricks they (try to!) pull, I'm happy that in the end, even if I yell at them in broken setswana/english or literally chase them away, they'll come back the next day to play, help me, or...quite possibly... harass me=)

- identity crisis- still never fails to amuse me, when folks call me lekgoa over and over and over again, meaning "white person", although clearly (right?).... i am not! =}

- summer sweet- cold, sweet, mango! - perhaps the ONLY enjoyment I get out of summers in bots.

- moon-lit nights - the whole village is illuminated.

- lebola- I have so fortunately inherited 20 goats, donkeys, and cattle ever since my front gate was run-down. Now these stinkers have free access to the yard, and it's become a grazing paradise for all the livestock of new xade =}

-slumber party - sleepovers with the lively and lovely ladies of new xade during youth rallies, etc. Just watching them goof off, gossip, laugh together, makes me think of the friends I'm missing back at home.

- yumm meat - pudi stew =) (goat stew)

-desert dancing- Hostel kids traditonal dancing at night, kicking up sand around the fire

Ngwaga o mosha =) Happy New Year