{"id":662,"date":"2017-07-09T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/?p=662"},"modified":"2017-08-12T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T20:43:31","slug":"winter-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/winter-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"

As my shoulders are sunburned and the air conditioning runs in my house this July in California, it’s hard to remember that it’s winter in Lesotho. Yet when I do remember, I recall scenes like the one above, which I photographed exactly ten winters ago: cold, gray, slow-moving storms over dead brown\u00a0mountains — completely different from the fast-moving lightning storms of summer.<\/p>\n

In winter, I recall wearing my blanket in the morning as I stepped outside to pee. The concrete floor in my house felt even colder than the air in the mornings.<\/p>\n

Between classes, I sat with the other teachers outside the staff room, but close to the north-facing wall in order to magnify through reflection the little\u00a0power the sun had. Students in classrooms wore beanies and gloves.<\/p>\n

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And then if it snowed — I’ve never been in a quieter place than Lesotho during a snow.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my shoulders are sunburned and the air conditioning runs in my house this July in California, it’s hard to remember that it’s winter in Lesotho. Yet when I do remember, I recall scenes like the one above, which I photographed exactly ten winters ago: cold, gray, slow-moving storms over dead brown\u00a0mountains — completely different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8huLi-aG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":654,"url":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/how-to-pronounce-lesotho\/","url_meta":{"origin":662,"position":0},"title":"How to pronounce Lesotho","author":"Greg Alder","date":"March 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember getting the news from Peace Corps that they were sending me to a country called Lesotho and having two thoughts: Where's Lesotho? 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