Guyana Blog 1

January 24, 2008

This is the first blog for Guyana. We left January 21st and flew to Port of Spain Trinidad. We had a 10.5 hour layover and arrived in Georgetown Guyana the morning of January 22nd. We will be working at the Guyana Bible School library. What we have been told is that there are between 5000 and 6000 books that need to be input, cataloged and organized. We will be working with Al and Dorothey Anderson from Houston Texas. Al has written the software for the library system that we use. We will also be working with Jeannie Lowell, one of the missionaries to the area. She and her husband Jim live in Springfield, MO, and travel to Guyana several times a year. They are both PhD’s and he will be teaching at a seminar while we are working with her in the library.

What we intend to do is set up a local area network with the computers in the library along with our latops we brought and then install the library software and start inputting books. At the same time we will train some locals that will maintain the library after we leave. We plan to be there for two weeks and will return on February 4th.

The first picture was taken the morning we were leaving the airport in Port of Spain. They are getting ready for Carnival in a week, so there are several huge costumed mannequins in the airport advertising the event. The other was taken just as we got off the plane in Guyana. Georgetown is about an hours drive from the airport. We were picked up at the airport by several of the people from the Bible collegeand driven to our hotel in Georgeown. It was a long and bumpy drive. Our driver hardly ever stayed in his lane. He mainly drove in the middle of the road or on the wrong side and beeped his horn often. Driving here is something else. The roads are narrow and in bad condition.

I had prepared a detailed blog and we were getting ready to add pictures when the internet went down and we lost it all. It’s getting late now, and we have to get up early in the morning, so I will try to send out another blog with more detail tomorrow night. Hopefully, this time I will have more sense and back it up so I won’t lose it!