2009.07.01: July 1, 2009: Headlines: COS - Lesotho: Blogs - Lesotho: Philadelphia Inquirer: Lesotho Peace Corps Volunteer Gwen Kehr has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog
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2009.07.01: July 1, 2009: Headlines: COS - Lesotho: Blogs - Lesotho: Philadelphia Inquirer: Lesotho Peace Corps Volunteer Gwen Kehr has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog
Lesotho Peace Corps Volunteer Gwen Kehr has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog
"Right now, I'm sitting in my house. I don't have electricity or running water but, yeah, I have a cell phone," said 23-year-old Gwen Kehr, speaking over that phone from her Peace Corps post in Lesotho, in southern Africa. The Chalfont native also has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog. In it, she is describing her two-year stay in Lesotho and her job teaching biology and English at Mphaki High School in the country's south.
Lesotho Peace Corps Volunteer Gwen Kehr has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog
Volunteer numbers down, but technology use is up
Blogging their Peace Corps experiences.
By Carolyn Davis
Inquirer Staff Writer
It's not your grandparents' Peace Corps anymore.
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"Right now, I'm sitting in my house. I don't have electricity or running water but, yeah, I have a cell phone," said 23-year-old Gwen Kehr, speaking over that phone from her Peace Corps post in Lesotho, in southern Africa.
The Chalfont native also has a laptop computer and a newly acquired wireless modem, which she uses to post entries on her blog. In it, she is describing her two-year stay in Lesotho and her job teaching biology and English at Mphaki High School in the country's south.
"I wanted to keep in touch with my family and friends at home and let them know what was going on faster than regular mail," Kehr said.
She writes about the food: "Two of the main traditional dishes are papa and moroho. Papa is maize meal and water cooked over the stove (or fire) until it gets puffy and sticky. . . . Moroho consists of cabbage that is finely chopped and cooked over the stove with oil and, sometimes, a bouillon cube."
She writes about work: "Our school's computer lab is connected to the principal's and secretary's offices and it is powered by a generator that they turn on and off as needed for classes and administration stuff."
Before Kehr got the wireless modem, she would travel six hours to use an Internet connection in the capital city of Maseru. Now, she posts the entries from her circular, cinderblock and thatched-roof abode.
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