Cara Suites Georgetown

... decline in Guyana's fauna we had chicken, there seemed to be plenty of those. <br><br>After a few hours we turned off towards Madhia - or we would have ended up in Brazil! After Madhia the rest of the trip would be by boat and on foot. However, to get to the Potaro river we drove along a small river bed, which despite the dry season still had a fair amount of water in it. At the Potaro river a boat was waiting for us, piloted by an Amerindian called John, known as 'soldier ...

... San Laurent, with a lot of other people waiting including a whole posse of motorcyclists and one intrepid German bicyclist. Our minibus driver pointed out a thin hindustani-looking man in a yellow shirt, who could apparently get us all the way to Georgetown for SRD40 each. We accepted this deal, although we were a bit confused about how it would work, since it did not involve getting into his minibus, which was only for the purpose of carrying our luggage across on ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... students were throwing water on each other and being completely insane...they tried to get me with a huge bucket, but I sprinted away as fast as I could and managed to escape. Then on Sunday night, we were just hanging out at home and the people from the local shop call up and say, "Hey! Come celebrate Phagwah with us! We're all ...

... Georgetown normally leaves around 4:00). Fortunately, one of the guys we were hanging out with happened to be the owner of a few of the speedboats that travel to and from Georgetown-he held back a boat for us to get back to town. It was dusk as we boarded the boat. The river is over a mile wide in some parts and between the colors of sunset and the dense, lush jungle that bordered both shores, the view was quite beautiful. As ...

... HER do not exist here. How you ask? Again, a few examples: "Tell Shonda I coming to pick SHE up." "Tell HE I left to go to de market." For the most "creolese," ME and I are interchangeable. If somebody asks you how you are doing, to blend in I suggest you respond with "I cool." This will let them know that you're doing well and are beginning to become accustomed to the Guyanese culture. A gold ...