To help you learn about how kids in Lesotho live, I interviewed my host brother, Matsepe ("Maht-say-pay"). He is in sixth grade and loves animals, playing outside and his family! If you have any more questions for Matsepe, make sure to write them down so I can ask him later!
Matsepe eats breakfast and lunch at school every day. For breakfast, the school serves lesheleshele ("lee-shee-lee-shee-lay"), which is a soft porridge made from sorghum. Sorghum is a grain, like wheat or corn. For lunch, the school usually serves papa (do you remember this from our food field note?) with beans or peas. Dinner at home can be a bunch of different things! Sometimes it is more papa and moroho, rice and beets, bread and baked beans, pasta with tomatoes and onions, or even ramen noodles!
While Matsepe's dad lives in a traditional rondavel (a circular house with a cone-shaped thatched roof), Matsepe, his siblings, cousins and grandparents live in a larger main house. There is a kitchen and living room as well as three bedrooms. Matsepe shares a bedroom with his older cousin, Mosa, who is in high school. It is very common to have multiple small houses close together that different family members live in. This arrangement of houses is called a family compound.
