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Lesotho

Sesotho: Both Bridge and Defense

Monday, December 5, 2011

MASERU, Lesotho – I’ve written before about my struggles to learn the language of countries where I’ve lived, be it my horrid Hungarian, survival Slovak or cafĂ© Cantonese.

It's a National Geographic Life

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

MASERU, Lesotho – There’s so much to say, I don’t know where to start. So how about with a Sesotho-language greeting: Dumela!

Dispatches from Lesotho Pt. 1

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Lesotho is a small, landlocked mountain kingdom in the beginnings of Winter. About 7,500 feet up in the small village of Mount Moorosi in the district of Quthing, a few major changes have arrived since my last visit in 2006: water, electricity, the possibility of obtaining access to internet; those things which so many of us in the States take for granted. The last time I stayed here was as a US Peace Corps teacher of English at Maseribane High School, then later as a visitor from Cape Town.

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