Culture Festival

St.Theresa Secondary school had a wonderful cultural celebration. James and I attended the day long celebration to support our students and experience more of Basotho culture. The students spent most of the morning dancing and singing in their beautiful colorful clothing and traditional wool blankets. In the afternoon we ate platefuls of traditional Basotho food.

It was awesome watching the culture dances with a backdrop of mountains and clouds Basotho diet primarily consists Papa (maize meal), Moroho (cooked cabbage), Nama (meat), Mokopu (pumpkin) and the drink Motoho (a fermented sorghum drink). Then there were a few huge buckets full of joala (booze made from fermented sorghum or corn). They also slaughtered a cow so we had beef with all of our sides. Everything was eaten without silverware and about 50 of us passed around a wet dishcloth to "clean" our hands. It was a fun day and I took a lot of photos and videos to share when I return back to the states.