Do you want to go to the seeeeeeaaaaaside?!

So I think I mentioned the sheer disruption that sports day causes in Guyana. I thought it was less so in Georgetown than when I used to be in Region 1. I also thought it would be even less so in an academically-driven private school run by two Scottishes. But no, here I am on a Friday afternoon, sat in the staff room whilst the school is empty of students.

Today is field events day so the students go to a field to throw stuff and jump things. Only the ones who are taking part are supposed to be there but even the ones not taking part have decided not to come to school today. We have two more days of this next week!

I did get to teach the A-level students this morning though. My AS class were doing a titration practical, which was great fun. Just the simple acid-base neutralisation one but it took us 2 hours to complete. Most of them haven’t used any lab equipment before which makes everything quite fun but they have a practical exam to do this year and it can be on ANYTHING.

I sat with my form class yesterday for their ICT lesson as their teacher was absent. They are such a great bunch of kids. My expectations of students are ridiculously low after two years in South London. It’s such a shame as there were lovely kids there too but I never got to teach them! One of them must be a massive science get to have a flash drive that does this:

After school yesterday, I went to the sea wall. I have been to the sea wall once before about 5 years ago but it was dark then and I only walked along the pavement. At the beginning of the year, the sea wall got topped. There is a scary video on youtube of the situation; made even scarier by the fact that Georgetown is already a few metres under water. Yesterday I walk along the beach, in the sea and bare-foot. It was amazing. The water was so warm (slightly brown but still warm), I saw 4-eyed fish and a skimmer-bird (the one that skims its bottom bill along the surface to catch fish as it flies). And not just a rare glimpse of these things, hundreds of them! I want to go back tonight for a run.