“Ayyy, Redman, kick up yuh stand!”
This was the phrase shouted at me
out of a bus today as for the millionth time I had forgotten to put up the
stand on my scooter. I don’t know how I forget and every Guyanese person
remembers!
It rains and it stops. It rains
and it stops. It rains and it stops. I love this weather. The rain came as I
was about to leave school but I had my waterproofs and within 10 minutes, it
had stopped and the Sun was back to peak between the clouds. For some reason I
am crooning for cold though. I saw a picture of a dog in my mum’s park and it
looked so cold with the crisp autumn leaves on the floor.
School has turned into exam nation
this week and will be the same next week. Every class is off timetable and has
two or three exams per day then the students can go home. I don’t see the need
for it but it gives a bit of respite at the end of a 15 week term with no half
term break! Although I still have to teach A Levels. I think these guys are
having their exam week in the last week of term.
I have been mingling with (or
trying to mingle with) the government this week. I have almost set up a meeting
with the minister of education, Priya Manickchand, to talk about LRTT Guyana
next summer. She has been very elusive but sounds keen to meet me.
Next up is the President himself.
I want to take one of my classes on a trip to State House, where the President
lives or is supposed to live. I managed to get the number of the secretary to
the First Lady today so I will call tomorrow and sweet talk my way into an epic
school trip. It is nice to organise school trips without all the paperwork and
the weeks of planning that they require in England.
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