{"id":772,"date":"2018-09-01T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.traviswohlrab.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:32:41","slug":"papa-and-moroho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/papa-and-moroho\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa and Moroho"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my Peace Corps Lesotho blog! This is an archived monthly chronological memoir of my volunteer service in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho from 2013-2015.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents:
\nI. Introduction<\/a>
\nII. The Final Countdown<\/a>
\nIII. Greetings from Lesotho<\/a>
\nIV. Host Volunteer Visit and 4th of July<\/a>
\nV. From Trainee to Volunteer<\/a>
\nVI. PC Training, Kindles, and Horse Races<\/a>
\nVII. The Beginning of Something Great<\/a>
\nVIII. Exams and Thanksgiving<\/a>
\nIX. Happy Holidays from Lesotho!<\/a>
\nX. New Years in Cape Town, New Semester, & Future Projects<\/a>
\nXI. Unit 1 Tests, Project Development, & A Birthday Surprise<\/a>
\nXII. Pen-Pals & A Muddy Sunday<\/a>
\nXIII. Rural Lesotho<\/a>
\nXIV. Lesotho ICT Committee & a Car Wreck<\/a>
\nXV. Child Prodigy & Kindles Round 2<\/a>
\nXVI. Family Vacation \u2013 Southern Africa<\/a>
\nXVII. One Year of Service, Completed Computer Lab, & Little Roses Football Club<\/a>
\nXVIII. Attempted Coup D\u2019\u00e9\u00b7tat, PCL Consolidation, & Ebola<\/a>
\nXIX. HIV Initiative & LDF Jazz Concert<\/a>
\nXX. Soccer, Durban Holiday, and a PC Thanksgiving<\/a>
\nXXI. Public Service Games, Graduation Party, and Christmas at Ha Mathaba<\/a>
\nXXII. Entrepreneurship & Kittens<\/a>
\nXXIII. Abseiling & National Elections<\/a>
\nXXIV. Penpals Round 2 & Conclusion of Football<\/a>
\nXXV. Kindles Round 3 & Renewable Energy in Lesotho<\/a>
\nXXVI. Matheko on the Move & A True Afrikaner Experience<\/a>
\nXXVII. Penpals Conclusion & Soaking It All In<\/a>
\nXXVIII. Bidding Farewell, COS trip to Italy, & A Humble Return to Chicago<\/a>
\nXXIX. RPCV Presentations \u2013 Third Goal<\/a>
\nXXX. Epilogue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my Peace Corps Lesotho blog! This is a monthly chronological memoir of my Peace Corps service in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho from 2013-2015.<\/p>\n

Featured posts:
\nXII. Pen-Pals & A Muddy Sunday<\/a>
\nXXII. Entrepreneurship & Kittens<\/a>
\nXX. Soccer, Durban Holiday, and a PC Thanksgiving<\/a>
\nXXI. Public Service Games, Graduation Party, & Christmas at Ha Mathaba<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you a current or prospective Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho? I hope you find my blog insightful and if you’d like to have a chat please don’t hesitate to reach out via the Contact form<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,12,107,106,14,87],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peacecorps","tag-blog","tag-lesotho","tag-memoir","tag-pcv","tag-peace-corps","tag-rpcv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traviswohlrab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}