"Lumela!" that means "Hello!"

Hey everyone!
Just wanted to give you all an update real quick like....I am in Lesotho and staying at the Peace Corps Training Center in the capital city of Maseru. It's a pretty big city and our compound has tall walls with barbed wire fence on top and security guards at the gate 24/7. Anytime we want to go out of there we have to sign out and be back before dusk. So far things are going really great! We have class everyday except Sunday starting at 8am and we don't get finished until about 9pm...so we're pretty tired at the end of the day! I am learning how to speak Sesotho SLOWLY, but it's coming to me. I am not as good at it as some of the others in my group, but I'm trying. It's very different from English in that they don't use all of the English letters and some of the letters we use make different sounds in Sesotho. I am also learning how to play Chess from one of the guys in my group...it's interesting and fun, but harder than I thought it would be to learn. We're practicing everyday, but I'm still not very good. It passes the time. We have visited some of the schools where all of us will be doing our community based training in a couple of weeks.....that was fun! The kids all sang and danced for us...it was amazing! In Lesotho they sing and dance a lot...it's great! I wish I had a video camera so that everyone back home could see and hear it instead of just pictures of it. Tomorrow (Sun. 17th of Nov.) another guy trainee and myself are going with Kyla (current volunteer who's been here a year) to her site in Mohale's Hoek for 3 nights to visit. Everyone else in my group is going with a partner and with different volunteers too...these are called site visits....they're part of our training, but it's better than sitting in class! Sam and I are looking forward to seeing Mohale's Hoek as it is supposed to be gorgeous there! I probably won't be updating again for awhile since we'll be out of town and won't have Internet access...so take care everyone and write me please! Love ya all!
Kea Leboha (thank you),
Kylie