School sports is back again!

Yesterday was the start of a yearly Guyanese tradition that I remember with such bitter-sweet memories. School sports happens every year around September/October. Depending on how your school leadership feels, you can spend weeks practicing and throwing inter-everywhere competitions. Yesterday was our first day of practice so all the students met at the Guyana Defence Force grounds and spent the day running, jumping and parading in their house groups. I imagine they did that anyway. I stayed at school did some planning, tried to set up a titration then taught the sixth formers who don’t do sports.

I met up with Mael for lunch and got a spare set of keys so moved all my stuff from Javan’s into the new flat. I found that I have a walk-in-wardrobe yesterday! Living with a Frenchie has so many bonuses. One is their fondness for making crepes. For dinner I had sausage crepe then followed it up with a sweet one drenched in Nutella.

I am getting really tempted to hike up Mount Roraima this Christmas. It is the tallest mountain in Guyana and also the triple point where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana border each other. To get there would be a bit long-winded but I have heard that being on top is like finding a lost world.

For New Years, a few of us have decided on Canada. So I’ll be flying into Toronto, catching a bus down to Ottawa for an ice hockey game then heading back up to Toronto for New years- throwing the CN Tower Sky Walk and Niagara Falls in somewhere. I have heard the temperature ranges from -40 to -20 degrees at that time of year so it will have a crazy 50 degree difference to what I have been getting used to!