The water is coming!!!

My goodness! I have just had a break-through! Today is the first day since I started the job in September that I have planned all of my lessons for the next day before the end of the day. It is 2.30pm and I can happily say that I have planned all of tomorrow.

Yesterday the school had a day off for a religious holiday. The principals are both of Baha’i faith, which is a seemingly little known religion about unity of humanity and unity of other religions. It sounds reasonable and there is little presence of it around school so I quite like it. Anyway, this holiday was much-needed. It made Monday feel like Friday again! The rain didn’t stop on Monday. A crazy Guyanese sentiment surfaced though; Guyanese like to sleep when it rains. I think it is because the sound is calming and the place is cooler. This meant that at the end of Monday, the teachers in my department were all commenting about how they are praying it is raining on the holiday so they can spend the day sleeping!

Some things are so similar to teaching in UK but some things are the complete opposite.

On the drive home, Georgetown got a bit scary. The roads were flooded and the drains running next to them were as well. With the sea level being higher than the city, just seeing this was scary enough.

The actual day of the holiday was less wet. There were intermissions between light drizzle and Sun. I spent the day working on LRTT (Limited Resource Teacher Training) stuff, which happened to include a Skype call to Andy in Uganda- I love technology. I really want to go back to Nepal next summer to make sure the project works with double the number of teachers that we took this year. Although I did say that I would run a project in Guyana, however, this is looking unlikely now as I can’t see any opportunities in the community around me. The big problem is finding a location that has 200 teachers because the countries’ population is very low.