What's new in Guyana?

    HELLO!  You may notice the PINK boat in Berbice river off my elbow. Hello is not a greeting here in Guyana.  It’s “HEY YOU! LOOK HERE!”  I hear it a lot in the classroom and in the neighborhood when a parent is trying to get a child‘s attention.  I have YET to stop myself from saying “hello” to people I meet on the street.  I wonder what they are thinking.  Usually, people say “Good Morning” or Good Afternoon” and expect either the same in return or I hear “alright”.  Alright???  It has not settled with me so I keep giving the same “hello” and then think, “that is not what they want to hear”. Oh, well…change comes slowly.     Let me say that NOTHING is easy in Guyana.  Getting “current”, phone service, internet, transportation, laundry and mail.  Let me give my latest example.  First of all, we have it easy in the US when we mail something.  The post man or woman will pick it up w...

Hello world, I did have a blog of some length to post, but I am not able to open on the flash drive at internet cafe.  As I have learned to say, "Nothing is easy in Guyana." SO....I will post some photos that I had intended to add to the blog.  Enjoy! This is Sunday ZUMBA! Sports Day at Sandvoort Primary.  These are students in a sack race.   This is Miss Miriam in her cute hat. In my spare time, I made a net to hold stuffed animals in the school library. Finally, the beauty of Guyana.  Truely, it could be if not for the garbage that is constantly left and thrown anywhere at any time. This is the national flower, Victoria Water Lilly.