Adventures in Region 1

Sometime in June 2018...

Headed to Waramuri

Tarantula in the house...Uncle "taking care of" the tarantula

There was also a bat later which I did not get a picture of but Amber "took care of" that one  ;)

The long walk to Kumaka

Hiking crew

 Tucan

The kitchen

Farm animals

The farm

The walk back from the farm

Bye Moruca!

The crew

UGHHHHH

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!