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Geeze!  It seems like I'm always catching up! Let's see, since November I have:

• Participated in PT Bridge workshop at PC Office

• Friendsgiving

• School Fair (I manned the haunted house)

• Visited Lethem (see previous post)

• Cooked during a blackout

• Hosted a couple of couch surfers (from Austria, Poland, and Germany)

• Began a steel pan band at St. Therese

• Interviewed for and offered the PCVL (Peace Corps Volunteer Leader) role for Education

• Celebrated Hanukkah with PCV's and Guyanese

• Had a birthday

• Spent that birthday in Georgetown with friends 

• Watched the new Star Wars movie with Catherine

• Birthday in New Amsterdam

• Group Chat!!!

• Spent Christmas with other PCV's at the Marriott

• Went to Suriname for New Year (again)

• Came home from Suriname to a flooded house and had to clean up (thanks to Zach and Steven for the help)

• Rum Chata Root Beer Floats with Sarah

• Taught a couple professional development sessions for the teacher's of St. Therese

• Attended GUY28 COS (Close of Service) conference

• Attended the Peace Corps field day

• Attended the MASH competitions and cheered on St. Therese

• Went on school tour (field trip) to Georgetown with grade 2

• Taught a local to make bobaganush

• Met Sharon; a Guyanese living in Philedelphia who met my parents on an African Safari a few years back who I had never met

• Played Phagwah at school and at a friend's

• Students from St. Therese's video chatted with students from Jackson Academy, MS.

• Random Basketball Tournament

• Finished all COS medical (have you ever had to poop in a cup 3 times?

• Said goodbye to New Amsterdam and St. Therese

• Moved to Georgetown

• Said Goodbye to to GUY28 

• Started PCVL duty in the PC Office 

• Took a month off and was in Tennessee and Wisconsin (sorry if I didn't see you...it was a crazy month!)

• Came back to Guyana an extra 5lbs heavier

• Greeted GUY31 at the airport

• Moved to Essequibo for GUY31 PST (back to GT on the weekends)

• Visited Region 1 (more on that to come)

• Attended the wedding of a PCV 

• Co-facilitating and Facilitating sessions for PST

That is all for now.  I'm off to watch the World Cup Final with friends before heading back to Essequibo!  Enjoy!