Hi all, I am in an internet cafe today while we are in the capital for a visit.  I have now completed 1 week of training living in the village.  They kept us at the Peace Corps training center here in the Capital for only 2 nights & sent us then directly to our villages.

My room is very very large. I'm guessing 15 by 12.  It is attached to the main house with my own door to come & go.  Everything is very very clean also.  My "mother" and her family are very sweet & she and the older ones speak English very well. I have found that English is taught starting at 6 yrs of age & continues through what we would call High School so the older ones can all be counted on to help us.  They try to make us speak Sesotho though which is good.  I'm a very slower learner as I expected.

We are in the lowlands so "high desert" is my view.  The village has many nice homes (mine is one) built of what looks to be concrete blocks with beautiful wood carved doors and multiple rooms with glassed windows.  These are mixed with "poorer" older homes but all have glassed windows it appears.  We have what looks to be an acre for my family on which there is the vegetable patch out front with the water pump. Around us are other homes with donkeys, cows, chickens, horses & a few pigs. 

I haven't time to load pictures so those will come. I also only have 7 minutes left so got to go. More later!