I'm Back!
Hey everyone! I'm back, I got into the manchester airport at about 12:30 last night after 22 hours of travel and airports. I have decided that I really hate airports...a lot. They're dumb, and waiting in them is like watching water boil. I lost my cell phone in Charlotte, North Carolina and to get into the lost and found, one has to go out of security and back in again. I didn't have time for that, since my return flight was boarding in ten minutes, so I'm just going to have to buy another one. Oh joy!
I had a really good time in Guyana, the clinic we set up saw over 1,200 people in 5 days, and there were over two hundred children that came just to play each day, which isn't included in the count of people we saw. I saw a man who had elephantitis, it was pretty sick. Guyanese people are funny, because they always describe whatever they have as a cold, which is the term for them that ranges from a cough, runny nose, fever, stomach ache, headache, pain in the sides, watery eyes, allergies, asthma, and various other aches and pains in the body. It is certainly much different there than it is in America, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Also in Guyana they are very concerned with simple courtesy, so to everyone you meet you have to greet and ask how they are, with a smile. Their evening greeting is a little different than ours, instead of saying good evening, they say good night, which to me makes me feel like I'm saying I'm going to bed, but by the time I was done with the week and on my flight out of Miami yesterday I said good night to an airport attendant without noticing until he looked at me a little funny and then I corrected myself. It was rather humorous because I was so accustomed already to the lifestyle in Guyana that I kept greeting people the same way I would in Guyana. I could write pages and pages on my trip, but I don't think anyone wants to read that :) but, feel free to ask me questions, I'd be glad to answer them.
I had a really good time in Guyana, the clinic we set up saw over 1,200 people in 5 days, and there were over two hundred children that came just to play each day, which isn't included in the count of people we saw. I saw a man who had elephantitis, it was pretty sick. Guyanese people are funny, because they always describe whatever they have as a cold, which is the term for them that ranges from a cough, runny nose, fever, stomach ache, headache, pain in the sides, watery eyes, allergies, asthma, and various other aches and pains in the body. It is certainly much different there than it is in America, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Also in Guyana they are very concerned with simple courtesy, so to everyone you meet you have to greet and ask how they are, with a smile. Their evening greeting is a little different than ours, instead of saying good evening, they say good night, which to me makes me feel like I'm saying I'm going to bed, but by the time I was done with the week and on my flight out of Miami yesterday I said good night to an airport attendant without noticing until he looked at me a little funny and then I corrected myself. It was rather humorous because I was so accustomed already to the lifestyle in Guyana that I kept greeting people the same way I would in Guyana. I could write pages and pages on my trip, but I don't think anyone wants to read that :) but, feel free to ask me questions, I'd be glad to answer them.