Roma: my new home

We have gotten to an internet cafe again sooner than we thought, so we can all get our facebook and e-mail fix in :)
Roma is the town in which we are living during our stay here. There are many houses and farms and fields within Roma, connected by dirt roads or footpaths and separated by many maay corn fields. Our home at the Trading Post is a B&B with many other lodgings, a shop and corn mill attached to it. It is very spread out by beautiful gardens, cottages and rondavels (traditional Basotho housing) for guest housing, and surrounded by a fence for safety. We can leave this fenced compound as a group during the day but stay inside at night while an armed guard patrols the yard. Our breakfast and dinners are lovely and preapred for us, and we shop at a grocery store in Maseru (the bigger city outside of Roma) for gorceries for lunches. In our house we have a kithchen, dining room and living room, plus several rooms and bathrooms that we share, but we are all very comfortable and looked after - totally spoiled actually, as I feel  I eat and sleep better here do at my apartment in Kamloops :P
Our home is considered very upper class, and the other homes in Roma are a variety of lower class, brick and straw huts to the occassional middle or upper class larger, stone home, most of which are in Maseru and may have a care or two and a sattelite dish with it. Every more lower class home has a garden, a dog or two and some kind of livestock -cows, horse or donkeys, and maybe even pigs. Masreru is the opposite and consists of lots of traffic (constant taxi beeping, which means "Do you want a ride, I have room?"), people walking and lots of shops and tall office buildings, like any other city.
When I've been at the hospitals more and by the time we have internet access again, I'll write about my experiences there -we've only had one day at the local one in Roma.
Until next time, 'kaliboha' (thank you in Sesotho) for reading my blog and staying tuned in to my advetures here!!