Peace Corps Botswana’s mandate is to teach about HIV/AIDS.
My motto is I can only fight one loosing battle at a time and the fight I have
taken on is literacy. If you cannot read, that affects every other aspect of
your life so I think that is a good starting point. Some my call my mindset
pessimistic, but I call it realistic.
However, this week I was able to have an HIV/AIDS lesson with the standard
6 students. This was a short 45-minute lesson, however the planning process was
not quite as short. Many meetings were held in order to pass through the proper
protocol including one with my counterpart where he got up 15 minutes into the
meeting to pass a message onto another teacher, never to return. It was only
him and me in the meeting so 45-minutes later I go to the teacher he went to
see only to find out he never made it to her, then I go to his classroom where
I find him. He was shocked to see me and completely forgot we were in the
middle of the meeting. Luckily I
was in a good mood that day and was able to laugh it off.
I was still laughing later in the day when I came across my
land-lady’s eldest son traipsing through the bush next to our home. I greeted
him and he responded with a mutter, “I am going to invest in property, not
living things.” His mother on the other hand has invested in goats who have
recently had babies and the little ones do not know their way home yet so Mpati
was sent to retrieve them and had apparently been looking for some time. In his
mind, property cannot go wandering away and is thus a better investment. As a
result of the baby goats wandering they are now only allowed in the yard and
have been continually trying to sneak in my house.
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