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!
