Dumelang Ditshomi! Last week I distributed 253 teddy bears to the children at Tlhatlhane Crèche, and the Grade R-3 learners at Dipere Primary School, all because of the generosity of the Mother Bear Project. The Mother Bear Project is an organizati[...]
Dumelang! Welcome back to regularly scheduled blogging. Two weeks of school break + unused leave days can only mean one thing... VACATION! Or as lovely South Africans say... HOLIDAY! The Wild Coast is a section of coast in the Eastern Cape of South A[...]
Dumelang! Yes, I am still alive, and yes, I still blog. It seems that I have gotten into quite the routine here in SA that I haven't had anything new to write about. I'm not sure if I have anything exciting to write about now, but I can't imagine going[...]
Everyone knows that you become a Peace Corps Volunteer when you swear the oath, but there are some unofficial milestones that each volunteer must reach in order to be a true PCV. You’re not a PCV until you… Take an overnight bus. It can be any bus t[...]
Tobela ditshomi! Before I get started with this post I wanted to let you know about my new YouTube channel! If you wanna check it out, I recently uploaded two videos about my life here in South Africa ;) I don't know how often I'll be about to upload due t[...]
Dumelang Ditshomi! (I’m upping my game in the New Year… ditshomi means friends :P) Boy was my trip to Cape Town quite the chaotic whirlwind. I honestly don’t know where to begin (nor how much I should be sharing on social media...), so I’m just[...]
Dumelang! This is my last post of 2015! I cannot believe that I made it this far!! In August, I applied for a grant from Peace Corps to start a Health Club at my org. I’m going to try to explain this in the least complicated way possible: Peace Cor[...]
Tobela! This blog post is going to be kinda blah, so bare with me. I took my second vacation of service to Sodwana Bay to scuba dive, and then to Richard’s Bay for Thanksgiving with some fellow PCVs. The reason this post is so blah is NOT because t[...]