Safeway

Out in the countryside there are no stores with refrigerated cases. Most of the people do not have refrigerators or ice boxes. There are small "snackettes" where canned, boxed and packaged goods can be purchased. On weekends, the market appears. Stalls of meat, produce, clothing and household goods appear much like a swap-meet. This is one we visited in Patentia.

This is so Guyanese

Spotted this scene yesterday. Had to laugh!

School

How do you get to school? Daddy takes you.

Rice

If you are a rice farmer and need to dry your rice, where do you do it? On the edge of the road of course (if the animals get out of the way!)

Mother Pig

Here is mother pig nursing her piglets. This is where we wait for the ferry!

Plantain Chips

This is Auntie Honey. Any elderly woman becomes “Auntie” to all of her friends and acquaintances. She is frying plantain chips and they are delicious. She uses a wood fire in the area under her house. She makes them in the early morning and late afternoon and sells them by the bag. Everyone knows where she lives. There were a steady stream of people while we were visiting her tenant. She has been doing this for 42 years. Getting a plantain slicer is on my list of things to purchase. I have tried making plantain chips and they have to be sliced as thinly as potato chips. Now I know where to go to get one. Watch out Walnut Creek!

Kites

We found out that the reason everyone flies a kite on Easter Monday (and never any other time) is because it is symbolic of the Resurrection of Christ. Another Guyanese custom, that has surprised us. Easter Tuesday - the power lines and trees are full of crashed kites and people collect kite string from the wrecks.