Last weekend in North Rupununi

Hi!

How was your weekend? Mine was nice and relaxing, thank you for asking. We didn't really get up to a whole lot. Pretty much everyone left us for the weekend, which actually worked out relatively well because it meant they left us the keys to the office so we had power and a place to hang out whenever we weren't doing anything (it gets WAY too hot in our room during the day).

Saturday was a lazy day where we didn't really do anything at all. Watched a movie, read our books, just sort of hung out. Sunday was a bit more eventful. An american PhD student living here that we've gotten to know decided she wanted to cook us breakfast, so we had a nice leasurely Sunday brunch consisting of coffee, tea and/or hot chocolate and French Toast with honey. It's not that fancy but it felt pretty luxurious. After breakfast we packed up and were off to the Oasis and RockView. We were going to get some food for lunch, have some refreshments and watch the Olympics but our plans were foiled a little bit. The food was fine, and the refreshments were fine, but when we got to the place with television they wouldn't let us watch the Olympics because the TV apparently uses up too much power. But it was a nice relaxing day nonetheless and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

I had not been spending too much time outside, and so had almost forgotten that I was on the equator, but I was reminded on Sunday! It's about an hour walk in each direction to the Oasis/Rockview and even though I put some sunscreen on, I clearly forgot some spots because I am now a nice shade of pink. Note to self: sun on the equator is hot. Got it? Good! Too bad I'm leaving in a week :-P

Anyways, we have 2 days of work here this week and then we are off for our last couple adventures before travelling back to Canada. A couple nights at RockView again to hang out by the pool and relax and then a couple nights in Georgetown. It's Carifesta and a bunch of the students here are performing, so most of the staff from Bina Hill will actually be in Georgetown at the same time as us! If we can figure out where they are performing, we're going to try to watch their performance seeing as we've been hearing them rehearse for the whole 5 weeks we've been here.

I guess that's it for now! Next update will probably be from Georgetown so either Friday or Saturday.
Talk to you soon!
Kaila