If I had a dime for every time this ^ happened. Get out my cup, gecko! Last week I found a gecko poop on the inside of an upside down recently washed glass. Answer me that riddle.
Bright lime green rice fields lit by the sun with storm clouds on top. Nice contrast. Wish you could see the little red barn in the distance and flocks of white egrits, but the photo doesn't pick those up. Well.... Gotta come see it with your own eyes then now don't cha? :)
Booty from Bible students in one day of service. We recently went a week with hardly buying a thing! Just little things here and there that we'd run out of but mostly subsisting on food gifts.
An empty house around the corner for just $125.ooUSD a month.
(Average price. You can subsist in Guyana on $3oo.ooUSD a month.)
Bible students attending Regional :)
Represent! Guyana, Oregon, Ohio and NY!
Guyana's Not Poor. Cortny!
I think its interesting that the average Guyanese person doesn't realize they're living in a poor country. I guess you wouldn't consider it that if you just grew up here, everyone always has enough to eat but the daily wage is what we in the States make in an hour. The word poor might be offensive to some. Not only is it poor, its the 3rd poorest in the hemesphere, right behind Hatai and Nicaragua. They talk about poor countries, but don't realize that this country is poor. They'll scoff at you if you mention it, so I'll try to keep my knowledge of the fact under my hat. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Just a fact and they are humble wonderful people in part because of it. It is also a well known fact that the less 'consumer' a country is, the happier they are. Well, Guyanese are a happy humble mild gentle people for sure. Very warm and friendly. Broad genuine smiles to go around! Hey, if I ever got married and had a kid, I would want them raised in this culture, not my own, so they'd have a better chance of coming out humble, absorbing the culture surrounding them. Really not trying to offend anyone, so I'll shut up. :)
Sparrow Suspicions
You know what made me curious? Every where I'd look, I would see young strapping men carrying around a wee little bird cage. It was usually covered with a cloth. Some times I wondered if they were transporting drugs at the bottom of the cage, because it would always be these young strong guys, never a girl or child which you might more expect. Something didn't fit. These are manly men were talking about, animals are abused here, not cared for, especially the more fragile like puppies and kittens or cute little birdies. So I voiced it to a couple of friends. Then I couldn't take it anymore the curiosity was killing me and I would start asking the men questions about their bird. What they were doing out of the house with their bird. What the bird was for. It was happening too often to be happenstance that all these young guys had a little bird in tow. The answers I got were adding to the suspicion, they would slough it off and say stuff like "Oh, I'm just taking it for a walk" ... Ok. So you're getting the cute little birdy which is already kept out side, some fresh air? These bird men were up to something, I could feel it in my bones. So finally we got word. Reportedly, these were gambling birds. They were being used at 'tweeting competitions'. Haha. Well there you have it, mystery solved. I knew it was something out of the norm. Not as serious as I figured, but still an intrigue. Lol.
