apres une longue silence...
Guyana (this news is now a little old): I was there, again. It was a whirlwind tour, and lovely to be back. Reminds me that too short is just too short - 10 days was all I had. To work as hard as I could at orienting my team to the way things go there; to reconnect with lovely people; to eat as much of my favourite Guyanese treats as possible... All told it was good. Unfortunate to be stuck in and around Georgetown, but kinda nice to find things familiar and comfortable.
Too bad I was a little too comfortable as I was leaving. Had a little run-in with danger as I rode in the wee hours to the airport in a taxi. Driver was way too friendly - decided he wanted to "steal [me] away so that [he could] have [me]"... You know, because I'm "a lovely one". Ug. So silly, since my role with my team is to be their authoritarian safety boss - yet somehow I managed to ignore the one cardinal rule: though shalt not be unnacompanied while 'on project'. In any case, I talked my way out of that particular terror, and made it safely (though shaken indeed) to the airport. Don't tell my mother!!
The take-home message was that I wish I could have stayed longer. Next time.
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