Hello from Surama on the edges of the Iwokrama Rainforest and the Rupununi Savannah in region 9, the centre of Guyana. We've been here almost two weeks now and we leave on Wednesday so whilst the girls do some invoice and logo design I thought I should probably catch up with the journal. We're staying in the centre of Surama and have a guesthouse to ourselves. We were staying in the tourist accomodation but we felt a bit removed from the community so now...

Hello again from Lethem! We made it back here today after two days at Carnival in Boa Vista in Brazil. I'm absolutely exhausted but the generator is sometimes dodgy in surama so I'm updating now. We stayed up till 4 on valentine's night dancing away and drinking rum with our friends from the school and our friends from rockview. It had been a long day seeing as Joanna and I had walked up to help them teach during the day. I taught haikus and comprehe...

Hello for the last time from Annai. Tomorrow is our last day here and then we have six days off before leaving for Surama. I can't really remember what I last wrote, so if I repeat myself then apologies! We've basically finished the library we were organising now, although there are a few persistent books which keep going missing! We've also designed a stables which are due to be built over the next few years, as well as organising the horses and givi...

Hello again from Guyana! It's now been just over a week since we arrived at rockview and things have been going well. Rockview Lodge is, as I might have already said, like an Oasis in the middle of the rupununi, the savanah region of Guyana. It is home to wild cats, kiskadee birds and the impressive Harpy Eagles - which are huge! We're working for Colin Edwards, a British expat who built roads here as a VSO (voluntary service overseas) and has stayed on...

Hello from Rockview Lodge in Annai and the first day of our second phase. We finished off our time in Lethem in a bit of strange way. Having little to do after getting ready we sat watching shakespeare in love and TRL with some medics before heading up to the main junction. There my friend Leroy picked us up and took me to play football near the church in St Ignatius whilst Bernie watched. The sky was beautifully clear and the sunset in Brazil as we played. We th...