Cara Suites Georgetown

... to go around the sites in Georgetown using the moped; they mainly consist of old wooden buildings that were originally private houses. The odd exceptions are such things as the huge 4-sided clock tower in the old market place. The tallest wooden building in the world in the shape of St George's Cathedral, The very pretty city hall built in 1889, the brick built High Court built in 1887 and finally a large ...

... then started seeing the aloofness-bordering-on-rudeness he was talking about. Now I'm not sure. The books say they're the 'friendliest people in the world', but that's surely an exaggeration. They're certainly not the quintessential laid-back 'ey mon' Caribbean locals a la Jamaica. The place is heavily industrialized. There's no pervasive skunk smell either; that ****'s very illegal here. What is it about ex-British island-city-states that ...

... a children's illustrated storybook and a Guyanese Civil Rights book about President Cheddi Jagan. And I'm still getting to the bad part. For me and Pat at least. The library was (and still is) a fire trap with empty, broken boxes all over the place. So while I was sorting and packing books, Pat had a box cutter and was cutting up the broken boxes so they can be disposed of. In marches the Acting Headmistress. She demands to know what we're doing. Well, we ...

... I know how I'm supposed to dress and how I'm not supposed to dress and you have no right to tell me anything about that." Man, there is no way in hell I'm going to wear those suits like those other teachers wear: they are literally like the suits the women wore in the 40s before the whole Women's Right Movement and free love freed us in the 60s. Free love or expensive love, I'll dress like an uncle-man if I want to, as long as I'm decent when I go to ...

... sure that whatever housing was found was secure, and more or less frightened the Grove volunteers greatly. SO. I asked my directors that if it would be easier for them, my family still has a house in Grove (which solves the housing problem), and because I grew up there and everyone knew me and/or my family, I would be safe there b/c the villagers would keep an eye on me *sigh*, and the house was 3 blocks from the school. So I and my partner exchanged ...

... far off the beaten track as it gets, there was no bridge - we had to wait for the ferry to cross over from the far bank, battling its way sluggishly across the rapid waters, weaving between river islands. An hour later, after getting stuck for a while in the muddy banks, we managed to traverse this huge river as the sun feebly began to break through the morning clouds. It was breakfast time, and we stopped at a Brazilian roadside diner in the ...

... day Tiffany and I hosted a big get together at our place. Since we live on the school compound, there was lots of good space for festivities like cricket, football (soccer), volleyball, and some traditional Guyanese games. Some of my students actually stopped by-they ended up playing tag on their bikes around the school ...

... mini-busses filled with people, pulling over seemingly at random, passing cars and other busses, trucks, horse pulled lorries, dogs, goats, donkeys, horses and cows. Driving: They say that if you can drive in Guyana you can drive anywhere. It is more like if you can survive driving in Guyana. Ok, its not that bad, but I have no intention of driving . Here are a few tips for those of you ...

... for science projects and the national science fair, so that's keeping me really busy. I'm also doing some lessons on careers/jobs in science, so that my students might have a better idea of what they can really do after secondary school. I think some of them have no idea what the options are, and I think that if they have a goal in mind, they could definitely start making more progress immediately. And here are some more random interactions I ...

The week was pretty slow, I am trying to recall what I did, and the only thing that is coming to memory is my weekly Wednesday bar trip with Jackie. Last week was a fish shop. It was really nice, didn't smell like fish, not so crowded and we were able to sit down for a drink without being constantly interrupted. Friday night I was off to a foreigner party, didn't stay long, just long enough to see and meet ...