Half-way through training

Well, today is the half-way point in training. We've been here 4 weeks, but already America seems like a lifetime ago. However, today we also got our schedules for the next 4 weeks and they are jam-packed with teaching and field trips, so I think these next 4 weeks will fly by. Today we also got the list of potential permanent sites, so that's pretty exciting.

I've had weird week. Monday we played sports all day at our training center, but I believe I drank some of the wrong water there! I was sick as hell and running to the latrine all night. The next day I felt terrible, but had to sit through a bunch of classroom observations. Afterwards I skipped language class to sleep all afternoon. That seemed to do the trick and I started to feel a lot better afterwards. The next day we all got water filters (I suspect I had a small part in that) so at least some good came out of it. Also, I took some extra Sesotho lessons to catch up on what I missed, but I think I actually got a lot more done in those 1-on-1 lessons than I was otherwise, so that was good too. I think I really learned a bunch of Sesotho this week and various parts of it all seemed to fall into place. However, tomorrow we have our mock language test, so we'll see if any of that is true. After the language test tomorrow morning, we are going back to TY to buy foodstuffs as we finally get to start cooking for ourselves. So that's pretty exciting. Today I saw my host dad for the first time since the first couple days in village. He works construction, and so has to go live wherever there is work. For the past few weeks he was at a job up in Leribe. So now he's home for a couple days to see the family and drop off some money, then he's off to live at some other job for a while. My little brother Kananelo got to go on a field trip to Maseru today as well, so everyone was very excited about that. In all it was a very good day in the Kose household!