GUYANA - September 2002 to January 2003
CCI/Netcorps - 150 pictures taken but only 44 scanned/posted

140 day adventure in Land Of Many Waters

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#1 - Meeting our host families
(Enid, Diane, Cecilia, Jamie, Wendy, Mike, Joyce, Anamika)


#2 - CCI and/or Netcorps Guyana volunteers
(Jamie, Diane, Anamika, Mike)


#3 - St. George Cathedral


#4 - Meeting other Canadians
(Jamie, Vishal, Mike, Xavier, Dorota, Jessica, Julie, ?, ?, Diane, ?


#5 - Grand opening of the Guyana Red Cross Society building in Georgetown
(President of Guyana is sitting at the table, 3rd from the left)


#6 - CCI Office
(Jamie, Diane, Canadian High Commission Serge Marcoux, Jessica)


#7 - Hanging around Vishal's place watching Married To The Mob
(Jamie, Mike, Vishal, Dorota, Jessica, Julie)


#8 - Guyana Red Cross Building
(CEO of the Guyana Red Cross Society Dorothy Fraser, Tyrone Foo)


#9 - Halloween
Cheryl Morgan, and Gabrielle ~sp(?) aka, the Panamanian princess


#10 - M. F. Yassin Hardware Store, 1st Avenue, Bartica
(Asim, Mohammed)


#11 - My most mother's (Joyce's) front door


#12 - View of outside of my place where I stayed


#13 - Typical view of streets of Georgetown, Guyana near the downtown core


#14 - Camp Street in North Cummingsburg, Georgetown


#15 - Walkway on Camp Street I used to walk every day to
Red Cross/CCI office


#16 - The Guyana Red Cross Building in Georgetown


#17 - Me sitting with a water bottle that I drank almost every day
(Jamie)


#18 - Teaching Information Technology (adult education) at the YWCA
(Mike, Anamika, Norm, Wilfred, Roxann, Elton)


#19 - Me teaching a lecture in Information Technology
(?, Elton, Jamie)


#20 - Teaching Information Technology (Microsoft Excel)
(Debbie, Jamie)


#21 - After decorating the Christmas tree at the Guyana Red Cross
(Paulette)


#22 - A view outside my bedroom window - of a house that collapsed


#23 - A typical view of the highway in Eastern Guyana (Berbice)


#24 - Moleson Creek - farthest eastern point driving in Guyana (at the
Correntyne River)
(Roxann, Mike, Anamika, ?, Norm)


#25 - A typical view of Bartica - from the top of the hill on 5th Street


#26 - Outskirts of Bartica - on the way to Agataash
(Mike, Jamie)


#27 - Baptist Church in Berbice
(Canadian High Commissioner Serge Marcoux, ?, Jamie, Pastor Kytrian)


#28 - A scenic view of Le Repentir Cemetery in Georgetown


#29 - A view of my host mother's (Joyce's) kitchen


#30 - Me at Christmas time
(Jamie)


#31 - First night (vacationing) in Suriname - playing cards
(Brian, Liz, Asim, Jamie)


#32 - A national bank in Suriname (downtown)


#33 - A scenic view of a palm tree park near the downtown core in
Paramaribo
(Asim, Liz)


#34 - A scenic view in place overlooking Broko Pondo in Suriname


#35 - The City Centre Hotel in Cayenne, French Guiana (we didn't stay
there)


#36 - A view from one of the streets in downtown Cayenne, French Guiana
(?, Liz)


#37 - Overlooking the beautiful city of Cayenne, French, Guiana


#38 - A typical highway in French Guiana (in very good shape so the
bus drivers drive 130+km/h there)


#39 - A typical highway in Eastern Suriname (in very poor shape)


#40 - Night time in Paramaribo
(Asim, Brian, Liz)


#41 - My host family in Bartica for my last two weeks in Guyana
(Jamie, Shamika, ?, Denise, Irene)


#42 - Computer lab at the Bartica Secondary School where I assisted
with the lab
(?, ?, Doctor Alan Wood (U.K. VSO intern), Jamie, ?, ?, ?)


#43 - My second last day in Guyana (in my house with my host mother)
(Jamie, Joyce)


#44 - The neighbour next door
(Encosi, Jamie)

Anybody that would like any pictures enlarged for better viewing, I can do
that on request. I only scanned these pictures at 75 dpi to save space.