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Easter Holidays – Part 1: Manaus
On Friday morning, the last day of school, Harry and I decided to go and spend the first week of our Easter holiday in Manaus, Brazil. 19 hours later, at 5am on Saturday, we were leaving our apartment in Sand Creek to begin our journey. This is the story of the most spontaneous holiday I … Continue reading
World Map – It’s Finished!
It took the best part of 2 months, but it’s done! At 11′ wide and nearly 6′ high, I’m really very pleased with how the map has turned out. It probably could have been done a lot quicker, but I had to take a break when I waited for transport to Lethem to buy more … Continue reading
Last Day of Term!
School closed today for the Easter holidays, and as usual the last day of term was dedicated to a fundraising/events day, including dances, songs, poems, skits, a fashion show (I took part – photos are below!), a donut eating race, horse racing/riding, kite flying, sack racing, lime and spoon racing, table tennis, dominos, an obstacle … Continue reading
TG#9 – Catch and Cook a (Hopefully Massive) Fish
TG#12 – Drink a Guyanese Beer
As many of my friends probably know I stopped drinking alcohol shortly before I left the UK and have no plans to start again, so I really didn’t know how I was going to tick this one off my list. As there really isn’t any such thing as “non-alcoholic beer” in Guyana, this was my … Continue reading
TG#8 – Make a Fishing Spear/Rod
The photos below show what I made this evening; people here call it a “water gun”. It’s a sharpened spike of metal with rubber tubing on one end – and that’s all there is to it! The second photo shows how it’s fired, the third and fourth photos show my “testing”, and the fifth photo … Continue reading
World Map Mural – Painting
Having completed the outline of the world map at the start of the month, I’ve spent the last week and a bit painting all of the individual countries and it’s starting to come together. As you can see in the photos below I’ve used 4 different colours: they don’t signify anything specific, they’re just so … Continue reading
Class Outing
This week is MASH week, which is short for Mashramani, which this year is all about “embracing culture, reflecting diversity”. Essentially it means a week of activities and events instead of actual school work. Today (Tuesday) was a class outing day. Whilst my PT partner Harry was dragging his 8B class up a mountain, Miss … Continue reading
TG#39 – Lime
“Liming” is a Guyanese passtime that I’ve gotten very good at. To lime more or less means to sit about, relax and not do much. Someone (I forget who) once told me that if you achieve anything, then you’re not liming properly. As I said, I’ve gotten very good at liming, so I’ve completed this … Continue reading
TG#10 – Build a Sand Castle
Today was spent at the river with my class (read the blog post here), and I found time in the midst of my busy schedule of relaxing in a hammock and swimming in the river to construct (with help) a large sand-castle-based smiley face:
Total So Far
£5,215.98 / £5,100 102.27%
