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Maybe not Gordon's last trip
Well I suppose you could call staying with local families and meeting bats in the bathroom as cultural! Fortunately, the bats were in the bathroom of my colleague......all I had to face were a few roaches and a search for hot running water, which I didn't find for three days.\
Still, it has been interesting to deliver training lessons in a church which was founded almost two centuries ago by a minister with the surname of Wray, who hailed from Hull and who arrived here as the last slave boat was leaving in 1803.
The people we are working with the Guyana Church Union have been wonderfully welcoming but the general population seem somewhat curious in more way than one. Most stare at us as if they never seen white people, which seems strange...and many seem quite threatening in their general demeanour. As an aside we have been told to expect violence over the next week as they run up to the general election here and the opposition try to prove that there is general unrest and that the pre dominantly Indian ethnic derived Government is incapable of handling the situation. As we arrived last week there was a double bank robbery by AK47 weilding robbers who then headed into the interior to be hunted down by the police.
Since then, five have been shot and killed and the local chief of police has been arrested as an accomplice so.......South Americal politics and way of life seem to be just as we have been told in all the movies.
This weekend we have checked in to an hotel for hot water and plan to head up river by plane to visit one of the highest waterfalls in the world then back Monday to more teaching and more home stay!!
On a funny note we have been thanked and blessed at every turn so this trip may put me in good with my higher power.
Best to any casual readers.\
G
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