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Tag Archives: Lesotho 07
Camara launch Refurb centre in Lesotho
What a week! couldn’t blog due to the storms in Lesotho knocking the power out every evening which is the only time of the day to send over a 30k modem.
The last time i was in Lesotho, i remembered hearing a story about the coal miners in the South African using a language called [...]
Week III 22/07/2007 – Des McDonnell
So here we are at the end of our third week of teaching. We arrived this morning in Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho and our final stop on this month long adventure. Our accommodation is a nice family run guest house in Hillsview, a fairly affluent suburb on the outskirts of the city. We [...]
Week II 07/07/'07-13/07/'07 by Dallan Cunniffe & Joe Finn
On Saturday, we make the journey to Teyateyaneng (TY), a town south of Pitseng. We stay in the Blue Mountain Inn there. At first glance it seems to be a very Westernised compound, but we find the rooms to be more modest than we had first expected. Considering that there are three of us in [...]
Day Seven, Friday July 6th: Joe's Birthday
We woke up today to Joe being jumped on and sung to by the girls. We tried to get as much of a lie-in as possible and then made our way to the school. Malefetsane, our contact over here, lives around Leribe and is nearby so he picks us up every morning in his open [...]
Day Six, Tuesday July 5th:
So we had our first full day with Pitseng H.S. today. Sister Juliet, the principal of Pitseng High and a memorable character, joined us today and was well taught by Deirdre.
There is also a very intelligent man called John Tau in our class. He teaches English at the school and has a real dignified air [...]
Day Five, Wednesday 4th – Finish first school, start second
So today was our final day with our first class in St. Peter’s. It’s been a fantastic introduction to our teaching and I think we’ll be very fortunate if every class we get over the month is as motivated and as friendly as they have been. We covered a little bit of computer maintenance in [...]
Day Four, 3rd:
Unfortunately Helen left us today to head off home. She will definitely be missed from the group and it’s a pity she’s gone but we have a job to do and so we have to get our heads down. We kind of know what to expect now after yesterday and after setting out a plan [...]
Day Three, Monday 2nd: First Day Teaching
Today was our first day getting cracked into the teaching. Up at six in the morning! Our first school is called St. Peter’s and is well off the beaten track. The school is situated in the most amazing place, a load of small stone buildings sitting in the midst of some of the most picturesque [...]
Day Two, Sunday July 1st:
So we have crossed the border and entered Lesotho. We got a taxi bus down to the Maseru border crossing with our passports ready. We had a pretty easy passage through the immigration. Once we entered Lesotho we waited for another taxi bus and our contact Malefetsane from SchoolNet, our host and local partner. He [...]
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