Day Two

So we have crossed the border and entered Lesotho. We got a taxi bus down to the Maseru border crossing with our passports ready. After being told to stop taking photos in case I was considered a spy we had a pretty easy passage through the immigration. It's amazing how universally accepted the Irish passport is! the border crossing is basically going over the Mohokare River and passing through two Soviet Russia-esque offices, once you have entered Lesotho there is a kind of shanty town area where we were waited for another taxi bus and our contact Malafasana. He works for the National Cirriculum Development Center who do great work trying to promote education within Lesotho. The area when you cross over was quite an introduction to the poverty that is in Lesotho, all shacks with corrogated iron tops selling fruit and bread with one or two appearing to hav nothing on offer for sale but with dodgy blokes standing in front of them, obviously offering some dodgy services I guess. After a short wait we met Malafasana and headed off in our taxi bus toward the town of Buthe-Buthe. We decided seeing as our clothes were still missing we would stop off at Peps, which is the Lesotho version of Penny's, and get some clothes to see us through the next few days. We think it's gonna be hilarious wandering into our first teaching session stinking and wearing manky horrible clothes! They will probably look at us thinking were the ones in need of a helping hand!So after getting undies(briefs!), socks, and a fresh t-shirt we finally headed to Buthe-Buthe. The place we are staying is nice enough, four rooms and eight beds between eleven of us and one shower which gets colder as you turn it hotter. Our landlord Steven is a funny fela who keeps smiling, laughing and saying "I am happy". He's going to be attending our first teaching session too which should be funny. We all decided that it is essential for us to decide on a nice study plan to prepare for tomorrow and get an early night... we then stayed up til an obnoxious hour and hammered through plenty of Maluti the locally brewed beer and forgot our lesson plan idea! Oops!! Well here's looking forward to getting stuck into teaching tomorrow, we all can't wait to get stuck into what we came out here do.