For the past six weeks the Touching Tiny Lives campus has had no internet.
Of course, that means that I haven't had access for my first two weeks here.
Everyday we'd call the internet provider pleading, "please, please, please come fix our internet!"
Mokhotlong is in a very remote area of Lesotho....I mean VERY remote.
Way up in the mountains.
It takes hours over cliff-hanging, pot-holed covered roads to get from Maseru - the capital of Lesotho where everything is located - to Mokhotlong - where, well, not much is located.
The internet provider - who is of course located in Maseru - told us that they would make the long trek once six people in Mokhotlong had internet problems that required fixing.
We joked among ourselves that there were probably only five people in Mokhotlong that had internet, so it might be a long wait!
But they finally came! And we finally have internet!
And to be honest...I feel kind of sad about it.
Until I had access again, I didn't realize how lucky I was to have spent my first two weeks here without any internet.
It allowed me to take in this place without the mindless distractions of blogs, election news, and celebrity gossip.
Of course, I am excited to be able to connect with friends and family again.
And I'm sure I'll be back to my old blog-reading ways in no time.
But in the meantime, I'll remain thankful for those peaceful two weeks I enjoyed without the deluge of information that is the internet.
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