Welcome to my Blog ...

I will update this with my adventures (and mishaps) as often as I can with little electricity, internet or phone signal in the depths of the Guyanese rainforest, they may be a little few and far between. Despite this, my blogging is proving to be pretty enthusiastic!

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Return to PK

16/01/2014 16:15
I’m back in Paramakatoi. We flew over the jungle and mountains in the plane, and eventually familiar things came into our sight. Kowatipu Mountain rose up from the rolling surrounding mountains....

Patamuna and stuff ...

20/11/2013 16:38
Hello everyone! Wakú pey nãh mesang? How are you? As you can see, my Patamuna is improving, though quite slowly, which is a relief, seeing as though we’ve now been in Guyana for 3 months. How time...

Farms and Farms and Farms!

20/11/2013 16:26
Hi folks! As ever, we’ve been very busy. We went farming with the Gomes family in Kato a few weeks ago. They’re some of the loveliest people we’ve met here, and the mother of the family, June is an...

Sports and Roti!

20/11/2013 16:23
Every day I spend in Paramakatoi, I love it even more. Guyana really is awesome. School sports was fantastic fun. I ended up jumping the long jump, and probably losing. The rest of the time was spent...

General Update

15/10/2013 16:13
I haven’t done a blog in a long time, and for that, I apologise. PK is fantastic, and I really feel at home here and don’t want to leave. People bring us food sometimes … bananas (our favourites),...

Into Paramakatoi!

02/09/2013 16:24
I have landed in the beautiful mountain village of Paramakatoi, a place I shall from now on call home. The flight was wonderful, although we were afraid that it would be either cancelled or delayed...

It's raining, it's pouring ...

23/08/2013 12:10
... and no-one is snoring, because the tropical rainstorm woke us all up. Yes, this fine morning, we experienced our first tropical rainstorm. Imagine the heaviest rain you might get in the UK. That...

Georgetown

21/08/2013 16:02
I have reached Georgetown, capital city of Guyana. Its a pretty amazing place. The sun is hot, the flat is small, the shower is a tap, the streets are filled with water and reeds and mud, animals...

Ready for the Wilderness

14/08/2013 15:46
So many people live their lives doing the same things over and over again. They are stuck in endless loops of repeating futility. They wallow in boredom and monotony. Lines of clones marching down...

6 days to go (Update)

12/08/2013 13:27
I haven't written a blog post in a pretty long time, so with 6 days to go, I thought I'd give an update with what's been happening. So brace yourselves ...   Vaccinations I've had all my...
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