buds know better than books don't grow

ylp went to lethem yesterday. i love going to lethem. really, i like going anywhere, especially when i don't have to talk to anyone. there were 10 of us who went in the bina hill truck, but most of us were in the back/on top of the cab, and the wind was so loud that conversation was pretty much useless. debbie and i sat on top of the cab (sorry mom and dad) both ways, which was wicked awesome. i just like thinking and moving. i thought a lot about kelseydawn. man, i love that girl. we are thinking about driving to washington this summer for something to do. i am so excited. i like that we can drive for miles and miles and not talk, and that she lets me listen to all sufjan when she would rather listen to a broader range of musicians. i hope i hang out with her lots when i get back.

back to lethem. we had to buy some groceries for the mashramani event we are putting on on friday. the entire trip lasted 12 hours. 12 hours for groceries. if this had happened during my first three months in guyana, i probably would have raged out and set something on fire. but i am considerably more patient now, or something. i just had fun. i bought some cake mix and orange tang mix and some supplies for stencilling, which i am going to teach my youth to do next week. i had to substitute real stencil brushes with toothbrushes. i hope they work.

at one of the stores we were at, a group of 4 white boys got out of a truck and walked by, and we kind of watched each other, because, hey, we're white, and nobody else is. then they left or something and crystal and larisa and i were talking, and one of them came back out of nowhere and gave me a business card. then he reached for my hand and i tried to shake his, but he tried to kiss mine. yikes. i am so awkward. then he walked away. the business card had some portuguese writing and an e-mail address on it. so funny. i was so flustered by it.

one of the dogs here is looking totally gross this morning. i thought that maybe he had rabies (he's all drool-ey, and his jaw looks like it's broken or something), but some of the boys say he ate a big frog yesterday and that's why he's sick. dumb dog. i feel really bad for him, though. he just looks totally miserable.