My view from the Veld —
Hello, I’m Drew Jones (now locally known as Moshe), a retired guy from New England in the U.S. In summer 2023, after twenty-four years in the same job in a college town in the Berkshire Hills — and after the loss of my parents, the worst pandemic in a century, and some reading and soul searching — I decided that it was time to take the plunge and embark a new late-middle age adventure while I still had the gas in the tank and the ambition to do so. So here I am in the Nkangala District of South Africa, endeavoring to help primary school learners (students) develop their English skills.
Actually, this is not my first tour with the Peace Corps: back during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, I served as an agro-forestry volunteer in the African nations of Mauritania and Cameroon. Then the main mode of communicating was pen, paper and postage stamps — and I’m certainly not a seasoned blogger (nor professional writer for that matter), but I’ll aim to make this “view from the veld” worth your while regardless.
If you’d like to know more about the nitty-gritty of serving as a Peace Corps volunteer, check out this written interview I did for the blog Wandering The World.
Note: the views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Peace Corps or the governments of the United States or South Africa.
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