Title: Guyana Dan (
Guyana)
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Choc Quib Town - 27/Oct/2012 20:30 - 4207 days ago
Quick break from the life plans stuff to share this amazing band, hip hop with beautiful latin and african rhythms, from the Pac...
Where I am At, Part 2 - My New Vision - 19/Oct/2012 20:15 - 4215 days ago
In short, I have a new master plan.My last master plan went roughly like this - become a teacher, get some experience, use that ...
Where I am at - and recap of the best Spanish learning resources - 15/Oct/2012 01:11 - 4219 days ago
One of the problems of blogging on the road with no laptop is that once you miss a little while it is hard to know where to star...
Getting high - 29/Jun/2012 17:41 - 4327 days ago
I´ve moved on from Caracas now, at least for the time being, to stay in a fledgeling eco village project high up in the Andes, ...
Ciudad de musica - 17/Jun/2012 00:37 - 4339 days ago
I´m now a couple of days into my stay in Caracas, after a week relaxing on the beach. I´m staying(couchsurfing) with a co...
Creatures and Saltos (waterfalls) - 11/Jun/2012 18:17 - 4345 days ago
I wrote some comments and stuff on here, and put the pictures in the right order, but the internet ate them and I´ve been in th...
¿Aprendo espanol es facil? - 11/Jun/2012 16:57 - 4345 days ago
This lovely video put together by Matt Stone and Trek Parker (not a phrase you hear often!) nicely explains what I´m doing with...
On to the next stage - 04/Jun/2012 00:15 - 4352 days ago
So, my Guyana experience is over, at least for now. At some point I might write some blogs trying to put the whole experience in...
All my Christmasses are green - 23/Dec/2011 14:32 - 4516 days ago
This is, unbelievably, my Third christmas in Guyana. And christmas in Guyana, like the other holidays, has it's own unique ...
If you don't mind awfully, would you be so kind to consider maybe thinking about casting your eyes over this entry and even if you would be so kind try decoding the symbols in order to extract meaning so that you can discern my - 06/Dec/2011 19:23 - 4533 days ago
How an English person asks a taxi driver to stop:Excuse me,I hate to be a bother but would you consider being so kind as to help...
Rain stops everything. - 06/Dec/2011 19:03 - 4533 days ago
Guyanahas a very efficient system forrain which would improve the quality of life immeasurably inEngland. The plan - get all the...
Travel in Guyana - 18/May/2011 20:46 - 4735 days ago
The Lonely Planet– South America on a Shoestring travel guide devotes a few short pages to Guyana. The opening line of the ‘...
Top Tips - 03/Mar/2011 22:19 - 4811 days ago
My main role here is in training and sharing ideas with teachers around how to make their classrooms more child friendly, inclus...
Soca Reggae Dancehall Junkie - 27/Jan/2011 17:22 - 4846 days ago
I gather some people were having trouble downloading the mix of 2010, as Z-Share sucks more than a hungry mosquito that's got in...
Believe - 17/Jan/2011 14:39 - 4856 days ago
Religion was one of my worries in coming to a developing country. I was concerned that my position as a firm non-believer ...
Not over the hill yet - 13/Jan/2011 13:34 - 4860 days ago
We are in danger of finishing a meeting on time. It’s the end of a long day of note taking, roleplay activities, group d...
"They all look the same." - 05/Jan/2011 23:56 - 4868 days ago
White people all look the same.Cows all look the same.Chinese food all tastes the same.Reality TV shows are all the same.Footbal...
Mix of 2010 - 03/Jan/2011 21:51 - 4870 days ago
This is a mix with my personal choices of the Guyana tunes of the last year. It is mostly a pretty accurate picture of wha...
Guyanese Christmas - 29/Dec/2010 21:43 - 4875 days ago
When your body clock is trained by a grey and rainy England, time seems to stand still in the tropics. There are two seasons her...
Pointless Guyana related lists - 03/Dec/2010 18:17 - 4901 days ago
Clearing up half-written blog posts from a while back - here's some pointless Guyana related lists.Noteworthy facts I was told a...
Good old days - 02/Dec/2010 22:00 - 4902 days ago
On a roll today, one proper post, one 'this thought popped in to my head' one. The thought?You know when people look back ...
Day in the life... - 02/Dec/2010 21:32 - 4902 days ago
OK, getting back on the blogging wagon here. I'm going to change my attitude a bit to what i do here, so future posts may be a b...
The greatest chat up line ever? - 06/May/2010 20:50 - 5112 days ago
A white gyal friend of mine, walking through the market, minding her own business, was brought out of her thoughts by the sound ...
Comedy Jam - 03/May/2010 00:30 - 5115 days ago
A quick post to get back on the blogging regularly wagon. (Also check out my posts onRaquel's great A to Z of Guyana).Comedy oft...
Soca Junkie - Music of Guyana, Part 1 - 13/Jan/2010 23:50 - 5225 days ago
First, an overdue correction: the‘amusingly bad grammar’ in the sign in a previous post – ‘water is life, care it’ isn...
CSI Georgetown - 09/Jan/2010 17:06 - 5229 days ago
This is, within the limits of my hazy heat addled memory, the precise conversation me and a couple of friends had with a taxi dr...
Toucan play at that game... - 04/Jan/2010 20:11 - 5234 days ago
Every morning, at the same time, the parrots flew past the building site into the forest to hunt. You can easily spot parr...
We Wish You . . . - 18/Dec/2009 17:00 - 5251 days ago
I've just had it pointed out to me that I've reached the fundraising target for guaranteed regular blogs, so apologies for the l...
Raising the bar - 13/Nov/2009 13:29 - 5286 days ago
I haven’t really written yet about what I am in Guyana for. So I should. And will. Now.And by the way, the photos on thi...
Place Names - 21/Oct/2009 20:20 - 5309 days ago
I do enjoy a good place name, and Guyana's villages have some fantastic names. These are all real villages. Honest.Some sound li...
The Psychic Bread Seller - 13/Oct/2009 16:24 - 5317 days ago
Late afternoon, walking past the spooky shell of theOld New Amsterdam Hospitalon my way to the taxi rank yesterday I decided to ...
If you fart in your house, you have to fan it… - 02/Oct/2009 17:53 - 5328 days ago
… or your neighbour will smell it, and the whole of Guyana will hear about it. This really is a small country.Guyana cove...
Culture Shock - 01/Oct/2009 13:37 - 5329 days ago
Thethree phases of culture shock, as expressed in my reaction to blackouts:Phase One: Honeymoon PhaseWow, a blackout. How exci...
Morning Ritual - 16/Sep/2009 20:24 - 5344 days ago
I spent the weekend with another volunteer visitingOrealla, an Amerindian village far into the jungle, about 50 miles up the Cor...
Nothing to do with Guyana... - 10/Sep/2009 16:10 - 5350 days ago
... but this made me laugh, then feel a bit guilty for laughing about something which concerns people's livelihoods being destro...
A Split Personality - 08/Sep/2009 16:57 - 5352 days ago
Disclaimer: I’ve been here three weeks, and I could be completely wrong about all of this.With that in mind, here’s my take ...
Love at First Sight - 29/Aug/2009 18:09 - 5362 days ago
I didn’t expect it to happen. I was just walking down the street, killing time. Minding my own business. It was my favourite t...
The Brazilian Jacko - 23/Aug/2009 16:43 - 5368 days ago
Last night I had an experience which shattered my stereotypes about Brazilians. It was on a par with discovering that Germans a...
A light shower - 21/Aug/2009 23:52 - 5370 days ago
A quick shower yesterday brought a tiny taste of what Georgetown must be like in the rainy season. We were on a day trip up to ...
Not so different after all - 18/Aug/2009 23:45 - 5373 days ago
I have noticed over the past few days an interesting phenomenon. When people tell you how things are here, they imply that only ...
Welcome to Jamrock. - 15/Aug/2009 17:49 - 5376 days ago
The last couple of weeks before flying out have been a whirl of packing, training, buying gadgets, clothes, drugs and batteries,...
Looks like this might actually be happening. - 23/Jul/2009 18:44 - 5399 days ago
As of today, I have an electronic one way ticket to Georgetown; I have taken my first Malaria pills with a terrifying bunch of p...
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