Just Another Week

Well, we had a surprise this week. On Saturday we were heading over to the academy to get ready for academy class. On our way there a board member stopped us. He is the one that we go to for house and academy physical issues. He informed us that there would be construction workers at the academy at 7:00 am the next morning. Sunday morning I was up and ready to go at the academy, and I sat there waiting. Finally around 8:30 workers showed up. They were installing new windows that had mesh in them. Hopefully by the end of the week we will have a bug proof academy. The workers finished up around 3:00. We now have to wait for another guy to come in to put mesh on the open air space between the wall and roof. We are also waiting for mesh doors and a double wide sink in the bathroom so that I can actually repair instruments and chemically flush them. We are excited for these changes to finally happen but they always come at the worst times. Sadly, the academy will be a complete mess all week.

Originally we had planned to go to Santa Rosa Mission this weekend. Sadly, those plans have changed. However, we had already cancelled classes on Friday and Saturday so we have decided to go to Georgetown for a much needed break. We will be meeting up with Eric who will be back in country! It will be nice to have him around for a week. While we are there we are planning to go to the zoo and national park. We have also heard rumors that there are matinees at the park that you are able to feed so we will be on the lookout for that. I don’t know if we will try to brave the market in Georgetown or not. Think of it like comparing a grocery store in Forest City compared to shopping in NYC. That might be a little overkill, but you get the picture. It will be nice to have a full weekend for once.

Even though Guyana does not have Thanksgiving we will be celebrating American Thanksgiving with the Roberts (the Canadian Americans). They have invited the four of us over for dinner on Thursday for a traditional Thanksgiving meal after we teach. It will be really weird to be working on the holiday. We will also be putting on two health fairs next week. Valini (the student who has GUYFUSE which I talked about earlier) and a Peace Corps member have been working on these and have asked us to help. We will be talking to 100 students at two different schools about mental health/suicide, nutrition, Diabetes, HIV/Aids, and domestic violence. It should be nice to be able to work with youth in a different setting for a little while.

It is very strange to be seeing all of the Christmas decorations popping up everywhere lately. We are hoping to put together and Advent wreath and get a Christmas tree for the house. I find it strange to have to go out and buy all new Christmas decorations. I have never had to do that, thanks Dad! We aren’t really sure where we will store all of this stuff after the season, but I have a feeling it is going to end up in my bedroom. We really don’t have much when it comes to storage for things like that.

Overall it has been fairly quiet lately, so I feel like there is not much to write about. I will be posting more pictures on Facebook sometime this week. I hope you are all enjoying the cold and the snow. Just remember I have 88 degree weather here! Jealous much? J