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Bartica Slideshow
Bartica
Travel Blogs from Bartica, Guyana
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Speedboating
... river, with a bunch of friends (new friends to me). Very picturesque...see photos included! After a few drinks we returned to Bartica and went to another local hangout. Sunday is the day when everybody relaxes by the river; they listen to music, ...
Rain!
Yesterday it rained and it was like Christmas. We had been having lack of water problems for a couple days and it was getting really rough since we didn't have much for showering, flushing toilets, laundry, drinking, etc. It was close to one of the best ...
Greetings from Guyana!
The first week here in Guyana has been amazing! I'm currently in Bartica, a little village at the intersection of two major rivers. We are here for about two weeks, going through training and orientation. There are about 30 people in our group of ...
Week 1 of Orientation over!
... just roaming around everywhere. Through the roads, on your front stoop, on the beach, just anywhere and everywhere. Also, the town of Bartica is known as "the gateway to the interior" because from the town you can get to any place within Guyana's inland. ...
Teaching Pratice
About a week was spent in this interior town where kids came to "summer school" and we taught random lessons to familiarize ourselves with the kids and how teaching in Guyana works. We learned it does not ...
Life in Bartica
... travel log. Katie usually does a good job at updating our travel log, but we have been really busy lately. We have been in Guyana for almost six months now and things are going pretty well. We now have a new supervisor and she seems to really know ...
kodak link for pictures
... ). Ok, I think that's finally all for now! take care, katie p.s. I didn't get to write in captions for the pictures, sorry. There are a bunch of our host family during training and some of Bartica. I will put up more pictures from training ...
Longest boatride ever
... 't really come out. Anyway we got to the mouth of the Esquibbo (or something) river in Guyana, then had another day's journey up the river to Bartica. Bartica is interesting, with donkeys and bulls roaming the streets, giant (and I mean giant - ...
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