New Project, New People

I am working on a new project, I am creating a photographic counting book for children. The photos also depict what village life is like here so hopefully they will be able to relate more to the book. So I have been all over the village recently taking photos and trying to find the right number of things yet still make a good picture...I have had a lot of fun doing it and have been to parts of the village I had never been to before. I have been working on the project with a young boy called Jason who has been helping me take the photos but also finding out the Macushi translations of some of the objects for me so we can do the book in English and Macushi.

I am also going to be asking the headmistress if I could take be a Physical Education teacher and take lessons for each class on whatever day they normally have games time. I hope to teach them some games that I used to do at school and hopefully they will be able to teach me the ones they do here.

My room mate has just come back after being in Georgetown for a week, it is nice to have someone else around the house again, we are also having a couple coming to stay with us at the end of the week who are IT experts and are coming to look at our internet connection and laptops. Hopefully they will be able to make some of them run faster as it would be a huge benefit for computer club. They will be staying with us for 3 weeks I think, it will be weird having an older couple around the place for a while.

Rainy season is beginning here, last week we had a lot of rain which is when I found out my house is not so water proof! I woke up in the middle of the night to find a river of water throughout my whole house...except my room! :) So for most of this week repairs are being done to my house to fix leaks and replace old mosquito mesh. We have also now been given our own water trestle which is being hooked up today so we will finally have some running water.

Next week I think I am off to Georgetown to sort out some much needed paperwork I am not looking forward to the 13 hour bus journey there and back though!