Tuesday, January 8th 2013
Time is flying by so quickly! In a spare moment at work
today my thoughts drifted off to the future, and the topic of how much time I
have left in Guyana sprouted up. I find it so strange that the half way mark is
coming up, and I still feel like I’ve just arrived. One year is really no time
when it comes to all I want to learn and experience in Guyana.
At the end of the Christmas term Rosie and I moved house
again, this time to the Medex quarters which are unoccupied as the Medex has
his own house in the village. It’s not a bad house by any standards, but it
just doesn’t feel like home. We hope to move back into our old house by the end
of February at the latest, but the contractors say they might have it done by
the end of this month (I am very sceptical about contractors’ perceived
deadlines, though). They are raising up the whole building, renovating the
inside and building two new apartments underneath, so no more liming in
hammocks or cooking under the house! L
I only returned back from holiday on Sunday, and already it
seems so far away. I think that’s when you know somewhere is really home. It
seems like so much has happened in the three weeks that I’ve been away; we
spent a few days in GT before all 22 of us headed off to the balmy beaches of
Tobago. It was nearly only 20 though, as the boys in Kato only just made it to
the airport before check-in closed! They decided to decline the flight that was
offered by the region, instead taking a brilliant trip from Kato to GT on the
back of a contractor’s truck, where they got to see a large amount of Region 8
and 9. We were all a bit relived when they turned up at the airport covered
from head to toe in orange dust and looking a bit windswept.
Tobago was great, I went scuba diving in the day, and at
night we partied on the beach, partied in the clubs, and the other vols partied
on a boat on Christmas day, though I had a fever so I spent the day sleeping!
Despite being ill for a couple of days, I had a brilliant Christmas. For New
Year I stayed in GT with a few of the other volunteers, and the rest went up to
Region 9. New year in town was probably the best new year I’ve ever had. The
rest of the holiday I spent time with very good friends that I had made, went
shopping, ate out, partied out, played a bit of water polo, and did a HASH too J
Don’t worry, not the drug. It’s ‘a drinking group with a running problem’.
Essentially it’s an adventure run with a party-with-a-twist at the end. Check
it out in your area of the world – it’s so much fun!
Although I had a great time on holiday and I was sad to
leave the friends that I have made, I am happy to be back in the cool climate
of Paramakatoi with all my friends here. I definitely feel that I am back home.
This term I should be even busier than last term, with the
addition of HSB (Human Social Biology), a karate club and a debate club to my
timetable, in addition to my English and Computer classes. I am determined to
take up running in the mountains, though watch this space to see if I actually
do it. One thing I don’t need much motivation to do is horse-riding, which I
will be doing a lot of at the weekends now that I have found the owner of the
horses in PK! Hopefully next time I write I will be back in the comfort of my
hammock in my old house J
I’ve been putting all your letters on the wall, please keep
sending them to me – Sammy the shopkeeper/postmaster will tell you that I get
very excited whenever I have post!
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Best wishes for 2013
Love Charlie
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