Monday, 5 September 2011

Welcome to Guyana

Well, this is the first posting from Guyana.  It has been long delayed because we have been in temporary accommodation so far and still haven't unpacked our bags.  Hopefully we are about to move into our more permanent address very shortly.

Meanwhile here is our view from the Rima Guest House where we stayed during our induction:



As you can see, the Hibiscus bar was right across the road, very convenient for pre-prandial Bank's Specials.  It also had disco nights on Fridays and Saturdays - very loud music until 3 or 4 am.  We were told to bring earplugs to Guyana!

There were 14 in our group of volunteers, 5 from the UK, 1 from the Netherlands, the rest from Canada.  Some of us ventured out to the sea wall on the first weekend:

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  1. Newberries2 October 2011 at 08:03

    Wow - what an amazing place - and boy does it look HOT!
    I'll try and download some pics to take to the swimming ladies, internet and blogs not their thing.
    You will enjoy life even more now you have your lovely new apartment - it sounds idyllic. Well done for settling in so quickly, you give no indication of suffering from culture shock!
    Keep it coming - love, Lynda xxx
    PS just realised funny photo on our 'profile' - sorry!

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