Rural Guyanese Amerindian Village

One of the best experiences of our life, full of laughter, challenge, new friendships, hardship, and joys. Living in rural Guyana was definitely challenging! But you can't beat fresh pineapple and mangos overflowing from your porch (as thank yous from the community). We'll never forget the dissection frogs coming alive in the middle of the night (if kids brought them to our house "dead" they could get out of a written test). We learnt to be flexible (the water pump that was supposed to run each day sometimes when 12+ days without working, we didn't get our first paycheck until 6 months into the programme), innovative (teaching computers with no electricity!), and creative (trying to teach science lessons with just a few beakers and no running water. It wasn't easy but it was one of the best years of our lives! We were really remote (no electricity in the village at the time although it was promised to arrive any time) up a river 10 hrs by boat. Sharing 3 phones with the whole village was interesting. It really was a year of appreciating the simple things (lots of book-reading!) and realising that life is more than modern conveniences and each day truly is a gift!