Today we have most of the day to ourselves. Yesterday we went for a tour of the city. We got oriented, toured the markets, and walked through the Georgetown zoo. If there are any Harry Potter fans out there, we found a Hippogriff. Unfortunately we neglected to bring our camera with us (we didn’t need to look any more like tourists).
So in part II of our picture extravaganza, we thought we’d show you a glimpse into our time at VSO. For the past week we’ve been attending in-country training with 13 other new volunteers. It’s amazing meeting people from all over the world. There are volunteers from Canada, the US, England, Ireland, Wales, Holland, and Kenya. Our instructors are mostly from Guyana (which are either Afro-Guyanese or Indo-Guyanese). We have two volunteers that will be working with the hearing impaired and have been teaching the rest of us sign language. We have all picked it up quite quickly and want to continue lessons throughout our placements.
Now for some photos!
In our last post we showed you our guest house Rima. The VSO office is only 2 blocks away. Here’s a look at the path we walk down.
Here we are at the VSO Office.
Inside they have offices, a kitchen (where they make us fresh fruit juice daily), a library (see below), a conference room (where we spend our days), and internet access.
Well, we’ve run out of pictures. We’ll try and take some more today for Part III.
RobO and DawnO
