02 2 / 2012
Getting out there
Thursday December 15th
Sometimes it is just hard for me to get out there. Sometimes I just miss home so much that I just want to stay in my little cocoon of English I’ve made for myself in my new home.
But I am a community volunteer, so I eventually push myself to go out for a walk around my village. I always end up getting cat called, and people continually ask me for money, but there is always one moment that makes it worth it. Today it was three ladies I met on the road who, once I greeted them in Setswana, all gave me big mama Botswana hugs. Sometimes a group of teenagers pull me into their pick up soccer game. Sometimes a little girl comes up to me and asks me to be her friend and to give her a piggy-back ride. These moments make me love Botswana, and make me so happy that I joined Peace Corps. I just have to take the good with the bad.
