Hello from Lethem, a small town on the Brazillian border. I have just arrived after a three hour bus ride. In the process of getting here we managed to break a bridge and almost fall into a river, which was pretty exciting, but a powerful reminder that here roads are everything and so the main artery from Brazil to the capital will be closed for a few days until they can rebuild it. We have spent the last week at the Iwokrama canopy walkway, deep in the forest in...

This is the second time i've written this journal entry! But i'm persevering because from tomorrow morning we will have no internest as we venture deeper into the rainforest to stay at the canopy walkway. We will be sad to leave her as we have made many friends, but at the same time the luxury our organisation (The Leap) affords us is that we can move around and see more. Since my last entry we have had a quiet couple of days, the painting in the atrium ...

Hello again from Iwokrama, this is the second time i've written this entry (patchy computers) so fingers crossed it lasts till the end! Since I last wrote we've done a lot of painting. I'm not sure if i mentioned last time but we decided to paint the walls and podiums one shade of green and the floor a darker shade. So we finished the wall paintings and they dried nicely whilst we had a relaxing afternoon. In the evening Bernie brought in her packet o...

Hello again from Iwokrama! And advanced apologies for the bumper journal entry, this is one of the rare places I will have the internet, and we have quite a bit of free time here and so most people end up online so I might as well keep you posted:) Since my last entry we've been very busy here. Yesterday (Sunday) we went into the village to pick up some wood that one of the guys, Rudy, had cut from the trunks of trees cut down for the new airstrip in Fairtown...

Journal entry number two and I'm still in Iwokrama. Bernie and I have settled into the pace of life here which basically goes as follows: wake up at 7, cold shower, breakfast of bread and fruit, morning work, lunch, then afternoon nap or more work, then supper at 6, then either a film or really early to bed. Thing is, amazing as our environment is, it's possibly the quietest place in the world, and the Guyanese are so laid back that not much gets done in ...