Nervous & scared!
So, I know I have not written in quite a while! I was very fortunate to find a job within my field of early childhood education and have been working my bum off ever since! So time is flying by and the long distance relationship between Ntate and I has been working! I know most people including my mother are skeptical on the long distance thing, but honestly we are even closer now. I call him 3 or 4 days per week and then there is always fb, email, and texting!
To make a long story short, I’m going back to Lesotho at Christmas. I will be spending two weeks with Sj and friends and family back in the mountain kingdom.
I can’t really begin to say how excited and scarred at the same time, I am to be going back! Peace Corps most definitely was one of the best experiences of my life to date, but I also feel callused and hardened in some ways from the situation. Will going back open wounds that were just beginning to heal? Oh time will tell, but I know that I am over the moon at seeing my other half and getting to spend time in honestly one of the most beautiful places on earth!
What will I do for my two week stay? I’m hoping for a whole lot of nothing! One of my favorite things to do as a PCV was hang out with Ntate and his family! I really couldn’t have asked for a more accepting family to be joining. Unlike my own side of the family, Sj’s family has always welcomed me with open arms! So there will be cooking and hanging out for Christmas and then hopefully Sj & I will get away for a few days.
I just really plan on eating a lot of my favorite foods from Southern Africa and enjoying the view and seeing as many of the wonderful people from my PCV life as humanly possible!
Sorry if this seems like a rambling entry, it is. I just needed to start writing again. I plan on documenting my time in Lesotho and attempting to express the thoughts in my head!
