Tola posted:Sheik101 posted:Tola posted:Parika back dam is a place with all kinds of Guyana fruits. Me hear the road is now paved and many people use solar panels.
Many young people in places like Benderoff could not wait to leave, but after living for a few decades in the city or overseas, they will give anything to go back. Many of us lived without electricity and running water in the house, but we accepted it as normal. Until we lived in house with all the conveniences and have difficulty going back.
When people passing us smoking cigarettes and we get a different smell, we look for skunk, but now the different odour is someone smoking a joint.
I never had a country life. Born and lived in GT all my life but respect the simplicity of the rural folks. It was for this reason why I planned on heading to the essequibo coast in April. The place I was going to does not have all the modern conveniences but that's quite alright by me. Sadly, dis antiman coronavirus came tru and American Airlines cancel all flights to Guyana.
Ah vex bad.
The virus is also affecting many of our travels, but our partners in developing countries are forced to take more responsibility for their own community.
I grew up in the country in GY and miss it a lot, even though our Canadian town has only 70K people. When we travel to developing countries on projects, I don't stay in hotels with the others. But I stay with the local people and pay them the cost for my hotel room. This way I learn a lot more about their country life and it also boost their family income.
One time I was at a small village near Palenque Ruins in Chiapas and the village was waking up to cook at about 3:00 am for the men to take lunch to work in the fields. It was emotional, as I remember the same thing happening in the village where I grew up in Berbice. That experience alone was worth paying the local farmer for my stay in their thatched roof house. What the Spanish lady said to wake up her daughter to help her with the cooking, was exactly what my Mom would say to my sister Elaine.
Many North Americans going on exposure tours to developing countries, miss a wonderful opportunity when they stay at a five star hotel and only visit the village on a schedule.
Don't give up Sheik, like other infections, the virus will not last forever.
Fingers crossed, Tola. Hopefully this Pandemic passes sooner that later and I get to go.