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I went on a tour of Kaieteur and Orinduik Falls last weekend. Instead of taking the risk of being verbose and imprecise, I will let the pictures do the talking. A link to my flickr account should be on the right hand of this blog page. Visiting these falls was absolutely worth it. If you ever find yourself visiting Guyana, plan a stop there.

School is going well. After changing a couple of things to my teaching style(a.k.a being stricter) and the help of some other teachers, miraculously the kids are behaving much better. They are slowly learning, but progress is always better than being static. The computer lab is also doing well. The students are really enjoying the IT class  I teach, and the teachers have begun using the lab to accomplish some of their more meticulous tasks. I was hoping by the time I was wrote this post, I would write it from the computer lab outfitted with the internet. Unfortunately, getting the internet in the lab has been an uphill battle filled with empty promises and waiting.

Yesterday was Diwali (or Deepvali) also called Festival of Lights. There is a large community of practicing Hindus in Guyana, so a number of the residents in my neighborhood lit up their houses and shot off fireworks. I’m sure that my experience pales in comparison with Colin’s. My friend Colin is spending a year in Northern India, learning Hindi. You should check out his blog at http://colinpace.blogspot.com/ .

In other news, I have almost finished all of my books I brought with me. I have one left, but I am not in the mood to read that genre. This leaves me with nothing but some math books for entertainment. It is great relearning the trigonometry, calculus, and other topics in advanced mathematics, but I can only do it for some long before my brain starts fighting back.  I just finished Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. I really enjoyed this book but I like Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (also by Murakami) much more. His writing is very accessible but his language is very metaphoric and layered. This may sound impossible, but I  have no better way of describing it.  It should be interesting how I choose to fill my time in the coming months.

Everyone here greets everyone else with a Good (insert period of day like afternoon), which is different from what I normally do. If you have ever spent time with me, you know that I usually don’t say anything when I enter a room. When you don’t greet an individual, they take it as offensive and rude. Old habits die hard, and I have made a lot of people vexed (no one here says mad, they say vexed.)

The grocery store is about to close and I need to pick up some grub. I hope you enjoyed this latest episode in as my world turns.

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