I'm Assigned To Digawana

The Assignment Ceremony is Over

Well, the ceremony is over!  I was the last one announced (we drew numbers for the sequence).

Reading My Assignment To My Fellow PCVs

I have been assigned to a village called Digawana (dee-ha-wah-nah).  It is near the Southeast border of Botswana.  It is a "suburb" (my word) of a town called Lobatse which will be my "shopping village".

The Red Dot indicates Lobatse

The language informant on the Peace Corps YouTube language lessons, Meshack, told me that Digawana is a very nice, small village that is growing because people are moving there from Lobatse.  

Main Shopping Street - Lobatse

He said the people of Digawana are very accommodating and that he has two aunts who live there.

I am assigned to the Nthwalang Junior Secondary School.  That means I will be working with teenagers, probably age 13 and up.

Counseling empowers HIV-positive adolescents to build positive relationships,
improve their self-esteem, and acquire life skills

On Monday and Tuesday we will travel to Gaborone, back to the Big Five Hotel, to have meetings with our counterparts.  Counterparts are the people who we will officially work alongside with, at our assignment sites.  We won't spend the night in Gaborone, but will bus back and forth each day.  It will be exciting to meet someone from the school where I will be working.

Well, the next four weeks will be the beginning of discovering and preparing for what my life will be like for the next two years.  I hope my gestation period in Kanye will have adequately prepared me for my birthing out into the world of Batswana.

Barb