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Find this site of yours very interesting, think you conducted excellent work over there. I am going to work in Guyana at the sugar mills in a training capacity on the sugar and energy sides. Been to Belize, Indonesia, Papa New Guinea, Jeda Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Angola, Mozambique working at different sugar industires. This will be my first time in South America. Not to sure what to expect! |
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Enjoyed your pictures. I am Guyanese and returned for a visit recently after very many years away. You pictures and stories were fun to read. My cousin happens to be one of the monks at the Benedictine monastery in Bartica. My wife and I stayed there for a few days. Maybe I should post my images. Best wishes. |
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Interesting pictures. Bushlot was my mom's bithplace. My hi5.
jahajis.hi5.com |
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Hello, I use to go Friendship Secondary School from 2001 and i move from there to come live in montserrat March 17th 2005 i miss going to school there and i must say thanks to Miss June the head teacher there and Miss Simone and Miss Tamika that was my class teachers and to all of my friends that was and still is a studaent there i miss u guys so much
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Viewing your pictures took me on a trip down memory lane. I am a born and raised Guyanese, but I have not been there in very many years. I was just surfing the internet and happened to come across this site. Looking at the pictures made me feel as though I was back there. Excellent! Thanks. |
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Hi, I just dropped by to thank you for this wonderful site! I was looking for some pictures for the Women's World Day of Prayers because this year the liturgy was from women in Guyana. I have the task to do a presentation about the country so I snagged a few pictures of the countryside, hope that's okay.
Catharina |
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Hi Aisling,
Enjoyed ur Site, always love to read and see pictures of my home land. Continue the good work.
Edward |
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Hey what's up?
The pictures of Friendship Secondary School brought back alot of memory to me, cause i use to go to that school for about 3 years before i came to Canada. It has really change since i last seen it. Also, the pic about Parika just reminded me of my vacations every summer when i use to go to my grandparents over on the island.
Anyways, it was good to see the school again. Hope you have more pics and if possible do u have any pics of the students and the school from about 4 years ago. if you do it would be great to see those ones as well.
Thanks.
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Hi:
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I grew up a few miles from Parika. I especially loved the pictures. Views on education will differ depending on which schools people attended. Some were fortunate to attend top schools while some attended really bad schools. I guess like anywhere else in the world. Amenities may not be good by american standards but the level of education in those top schools is way up there.
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your pictures are nice and i'm so glad to have found them, i think it's great to know about other countries. I was born in colombia and well i felt that one day i should try to visit all the countries of the continent that i was born in. Anyway reading other people's comments and stuff i think that you were probably sent to a very underdeveloped area and there's gotta be a nice place for tourist to visit, every country has its beauty. The comments about education and how some of the people born there were already familiar with some of the subjects thought in the US, to some degree i think it's true cause many countries force algebra around 6th or 7th grade on their students. While in the US algebgra I is really only mandatory in 10th grade or so and from then on you can easily graduade without ever have taken a calculus course or algebra II, it all depends on the student if they even want to bother getting into college. Anyway, all in all i enjoyed looking at your pictures. |
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hi Aisling,
loved yur pics, i'm going 2 guyana in dec and can't wait. born n grew up there, my home country. n e way lookin 4 ward 2 c more of yur pics. |
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I'm not certain of your assessment of the educational system in Guyana. You must have been sent to the underdeveloped areas. I completed my primary and secondary education in Guyana and certainly have no regrets. I realized the value of my education after enrolling in college in the US. e.g...a large # of college students here, would benefit greatly from a writing class, and also...a lot of what I studied here was repetition (for me). Well, all I can say is...Welcome to the real world. |
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Reading your post was like taking a trip down memory lane. The pictures of Parika actually brought tears to my eyes. I was born on the island of Leguan which is on the other side of Parika. Thank you so much for your reports and pictures. I'll keep your journals in my favorites. All the best. |
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You have written some really intersting stories. Thank you. I was doing research on pictures of Guyana and learned so much from reading your blog. I would like to invite anyone born in Guyana or interested in Guyanese culture to join mittelholzer.org
Egdar Mittelholzer was a famous Guyanese author. |
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hi!! i really like your picture :-) it was fun browsing your website.. next time u return, please visit to essequibo coast. bye |
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Aisling, your stories of Guyana are really funny and true. I am happy that you are so open-minded about all that you have experienced. I have lived half my life in Guyana and haven't gotten to see some of the places you have seen. I think your thoughts on the quality of the Guyanese education is mostly correct as seen through the eyes of an American. As a student in Guyana, I felt that I learned math well since education in this subject doesn't require too much resources. But the education is lacking elsewhere because of the lack of resources, libraries and a government that doesn't do enough to stress its importance. I did well in school when I moved to the US, and was also able to attend an ivy-league school as well. I am studying engineering, and this isn't surprising since I do have a good math background. However, a lot of this had to do with my own commitment to education. A lot of students from Guyana don't do as well as I have academically, but yet they have the discipline and values to do well in life.
In any case, I do greatly respect your passion to tour around the world and learn how different it is outside of the US. Informing others of these differences is also important too. I wish that you continue to see the world with such and open mind and share your stories with others.
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The pics are great...:) |
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Oh, I forgot to say, your pictures are really priceless and your entries are very interesting especially from an Anthropological point of view.
Aqeela. |
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Aisling, being born in Guyana and having lived there for the better part of my life enables me to correct you on one or your comments on the education system in Guyana. Honestly, the value and quality of education in Guyana and the rest of the West Indies is far better than that of the U.S. When I started high school here, in New York, I did work I had done years before in Guyana and I wasn't put into the wrong grade. I even entered advanced classes because of my educational background. Currently I'm in a senior college and still there are things I'm doing that I've done years before or have friends in Guyana who did the same stuff in high school. I don't mean to be rude about this I just thought you needed to know someone else's views on the topic, especially someone who has experienced both "worlds". It is true though that a lot of Guyanese children can't attend school for finacial reasons but education is free there just as it is here and there are ways of working around these obstacles.
Aqeela. |
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