GUYANA - September 2002 to January 2003
CCI/Netcorps - 150 pictures taken but only 44 scanned/posted
140 day adventure in Land Of Many Waters
For 14400</33600/56k modem
users, please be very patient
(~up to a 25 minute wait,
meaning go have your lunch).
#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.