Between the hours of 2-4pm, it’s uncomfortably hot even if you’re just sitting. You pray for rain to relieve the stifling heat. You try to distract yourself by focusing on other tasks or dream of immersing yourself in an ice glacier. Everything slows down and crowds are often seen at the picnic table trying to find some relief from the occasional breeze. Today, everyone was momentarily atwitter when Alphonso brought the head and tail of a rattlesnake in a jar containing alcohol. Apparently, it was hiding in the brush near where I child was playing and luckily, someone had prevented a terrible accident.
As for work, we’ve got into the habit of completing more demanding tasks in the morning. This isn’t difficult since we go to bed at 8:30pm and are usually wide awake by 6am or earlier! Today was particularly tedious printing out our handouts on an ink-jet printer circa 1988. We were just happy in the end to have something to give our Community Health Workers.
Nick left for the Rupununi Expo in Lethem yesterday. It’s a 2-day festival showcasing the local arts and crafts of Region 9. Interestingly, there’s another festival in May called the Rupununi Rodeo, which sound very much like the Calgary Stampede. It’s a family event where ranchers show of their skill and there’s generally a lot of partying. It would be fun to survey the local goods this weekend, but we don’t mind that we will be missing the event, because we will FINALLY host our workshop. Everything is ready (see picture of radioing in lieu of a phoning), and we hope that it will go smoothly. There’s been so much anticipation for this that we can hardly believe it’s tomorrow.
