Her middle sister goes to the nearest high school, which is about a three mile walk each way. Her eldest sister helps around the home and takes care of her younger sisters.
School begins at 7:45 a.m., although most kids come earlier to hang out with their friends before school starts. Classes end at 2:00 in the afternoon.
She walks to school, but luckily lives very close by. Yes, all elementary school students go to school by themselves, but usually they walk with the other kids who live near them or with their siblings who attend the same school. Parents don't walk their kids to school, and there are no school buses!
Nkhabaola told me she eats inside her house. At school during lunch, the kids usually eat outside when the weather is nice. Her favorite food is chicken with peri-peri sauce, which is a spicy flavorful mayonnaise sauce popular in Lesotho and South Africa.
Sesotho and English are the two official languages of Lesotho, and both are taught in elementary school. By Grade Four, students are supposed to be being taught only in English, except for during their Sesotho lessons. The word for hello in Sesotho is lumela (doo-may-lah)!
