We have internet now (3G and EDGE signal are available across most of Lesotho), so we will start updating this more regularly. We are currently in Community Based Training in a small village, and will be here until mid-August. We will write up a summery of everything that we have been doing for the past month soon, but for now, here are a few ways our lives are different:

-I am posting this by the light of a paraffin lamp.
-Unless we are in town, we make everything we eat using a two burner propane stove.
-The closest thing to running water we have used in a month is pouring water out of a pitcher.
-Our refrigerator is the floor under our table, next to the wall. It stays cold enough 24/7 to keep cheese and butter fresh.
-We wake up to the sound of the cows being taken out to graze, the rooster crowing, and the pigs being fed. This all occurs within about 50 feet of where we sleep. And I thought barking dogs were bad at home.
-We have a sun-down curfew. It is enforced by wild dogs.
-We can see the southern cross and the milky way every night.
-We have four sisters and two brothers living in our family compound. There are more than I can remember elsewhere.
-Ke bua sesotho hayane, empa hamonate. Ke tla ithute ho bua sesotho hoholu, le ho kopane batho ba Lesotho ka motse oa ka.

We will post more later, but for now, we miss everybody but we are having a blast. I still don't think it has completely settled in that we live in Lesotho, and it definitely hasn't set in that this is really my job. I can't believe I am getting paid for this. We are very, very blessed. Please feel free to e-mail us... it may take us a few days to write back, but we would love to hear from everyone back home!

-Wes