Sotho

“Truly the most powerful thing I will have shared with people here in Lesotho will be watching Obamas speech (twice) , everyone crying silent tears of hope, and seeing how important that day was not only to us four Americans, but to a Canadian and Basotho people.

Sister Theresa’s tears were those of hope and those of worry, with prayers for him because the sisters are worried about what people will or could do to him. Still, watching her explain to one beautiful orphan girl in particular how momentous of a day this was and how everyone can dream was immensely powerful.

I ran back to school that day, running on a couple hours stolen sleep, because I couldn’t wait to share with the teachers what had happened. Ntate Phoole and Marco in particular didn’t believe it would ever happen so I was very eager to share it with them.

All the teachers were ecstatic about what changes will come and said with Bush gone they will now not “hate America” anymore (their exact words, not mine). I did promise a few teachers we would have a party when he won so now have to figure that out, it definitely deserves a celebration. Obama is our new president, to the Basotho he is “African” and I had to explain “African American”, many of the people I have talked to think he is going to change all of Africa.

Though not entirely true, the most important thing is that they also see a black man who went to the university and strove for something huge and attained what they see as the impossible.”
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