Great campaign day!!!!!! And other funny things

Hey guys

Hope you are all doing ok.  Im keeping up to date with the decline in weather in Uk and Us.  Really dont know how Im going to cope coming back in march.  How will I stay warm.  If it gets below 80 here I feel a little cool........

So hope all are having fun with their tract campaign and now we have to count them too.

WE finished our whole territory within 10 days.  Oh yeah thats right.  Felt so proud of everyone.  Wow alot of walking but great results.  So we went to help another cong with their territory.  They have a group of villages far back from the public road near the back dams and it takes them 1 and 1/2 years to cover so we went along to help them with the tract campaign.

So we arrived at 8.30 am.  58 turned up from both halls but we are all sure more came during the day. .....

WE all had a great day.  It was a bit cooler which was Jehovahs blessing for the day.  I worked with a young brother from our hall Denzel and we had a lot of great success.

Reading it straight away

For those who know me well you know why I
took this picture hehehehehe

 And we saw alot of "nature".  Cayman (small alligators)

Can you see the eyes???????????

alot of cows and horses and beautiful flowers too. 

We finished about 6pm after feeling we had walked about 10 miles.  But you know my hall by now, that was not the end.  We then had a fabulous party to celebrate our campaign success and just because we are Skeldon.

This is really one of the best games I have ever played.  All you
need is a pen some paper and 2 dice.  We had the best laugh till it almost
hurt.  Cant wait to play it back in UK.  Maybe the laugh and speed will keep
me warmer...........

 So we played mad crazy games and had some scrummy yummy food.  Then finally off to bed.

Well friday I was invited to go to town with 2 local sisters.  And I have been here for over 5 months now and have been kind of mad craving a nice coffee.  And town has the only western style coffee shop in guyana.

 So off we went.  Left at 5am.  4 hours later I was sitting in air conditioned cafe drinking a spectacular cappuccino with a smiley face on it feeling so so happy.  Simple things in life are great.  So that will keep me going till march now for sure.  A bit of shopping with the girlie's in the "north east" style rainy weather

then it was 4 hours back home again after sitting on the bus for about 2 hours waiting for it to fill.  You may think Im mad but hey I really do love a nice coffee and to me it was really worth it.  So 10 hours on a minibus and 300 miles round trip.

Another guyanese language lesson.  I had to stay by a local sister and her daughter for the week as melindas guests stayed in my room.  Each morning they cooked toast on a "towa" which is like a pizza stone but heavy metal.  Well this was the conversation each morning between mother and daughter.  "Don't cut my bread too tick(thick) I like it more tin(thin).  And let it go crips(crisp) on the towa girl I don't like it sof(soft).  So each morning as you can imagine was a whole lot of laughs then me bringing my geordieness to the table too added to the fun of it all.

So that is my life up till now..... Cant believe Ive been in Guyana all together for over 1 year now.  Time flies when your having fun doesn't it.  And next month is my trip to Suriname for my visa for the last time till I leave in march.  I'm hoping to visit peter and alice todd my geordie friends who are special pioneers there in the english field.

Take Care and lots of love to you all and stay warm

Natalie