Buddy's International Hotel Georgetown

- In the morning we did a bit more of the chores with a view to going to one of the celebrations in the afternoon. In the end when we got to the place where the celebration was to take place it had just finished, we had been told it went on until the evening. That meant nothing else to do today apart from fill up with water. You certainly need a good filter system for the water since it is contaminated in the ...

... are plenty of spaces, but how would he find them? This isn't Gringotenango or Khao San or Freak Street with cheap hotels lining the streets as far as the eye can see. Where I stayed is as close to a hostel as there is, but no one's there, just a few locals... and me. The prices double for Carnaval. More and more I see other travelers less and less. That's what happens when you go to hard-to-get-to locations. Everybody and his brother go to ...

... that I had been single-handedly trying to throttle into shape. This was on Thursday. As part of the Anniversary celebration, old teachers and students were invited to the school so the administration wanted to the library in order so as to create the illusion that the school had a library that its students had been utilizing all along. The fact that no one lifted a finger to do anything for the sake of the students who desperately need a library but instead ...

... 2 or 3 students who are eager to soak up everything that comes their way. I've had some funny experiences too. I was dressed one day like I would to go to work in NY: in Old Navy stretch dress pants with a striped collared shirt tucked completely in. I received strange looks all day long, but when I was trying to teach the final session of the day, I figured that the girls were staring at my pants because my fly must be as open as the Essiquibo River. It wasn ...

... including being allowed into the rare book room. That was the highlight of my time at CPCE. There were also changes in my posting that would affect me greatly for the coming year. I was slated to go teach Reading and Accounts (yeah, if you know me, you know how well this would have gone) at Friendship, which is just 2 villages down from my home village of Grove. Two other girls were supposed to go to Diamond Secondary, a new school that was in the process of ...

The journey promised to be long and rough when we finally set off at midnight. It got a little easier when a handful of people got off in the middle of the night, affording us a little more room to stretch out in. The road surface, although unpaved, was generally fairly smooth though, and we managed to get some sleep before being woken up at dawn on the edge of the Iwokrama rainforest - a huge protected area of pristine jungle - because we had got ...

... call....but the next morning he called, said be ready in an hour, picked us up, brought us to his plane at the airport, and we were off! Awesome. I got to sit right next to the pilot, and even got to try flying a little! It was just a little plane, which fit about 7. It took about 40 minutes to get to the place, which was on a ...

So it has been about three weeks and I am really beginning to adjust to the Guyana life style. Allow me a few lessons. Walking: Having been a British colony, they drive on the left side of the road, which means you better watch out silly Americans. I have finally learned to look both ways before crossing the street-by both ways I mean Right and then Left. If you use your substandard US conventions ...

... was a cow walking on the side of the road. He was furious, and cursing up a storm. He turned the bus around, screaming that he was going to take the cow home and sell it off in order to pay for the damages to his bus. Everyone in the minibus was like, "You crazy?! Whatchu gonna do, put the cow in the bus back here with all of us!?" So everybody is shouting now, and when we reach the place where he hit the thing, we see that it was a horse, not a ...

... I were off to an early start and had to get some serious shopping done, but then realized that Saturday prices were in effect - everything significantly more expensive on Saturday, so we only getting a few things, but then we hopped on a boat and went across the river to another town and region. Their version of provences are called regions here, so it was like me travelling to a ...