We Have RICE?!?!

HOLA! And Happy December!!! Its nice to walk down the road in a tank top, getting sunburned and sweating my booty off in DECEMBER!!! AHHH hard to believe….in this perpetual summer season.

So this week was disability week!! My school hosted a March and Rally on Friday Morning to support and raise awareness to people with disabilities! It was a fantastic march, kids were really getting into it, more like dancing down the street than walking…and we had signs that read “ Stop Discrimination”, “We have rights” “Support us” …We walked the streets of New Amsterdam, with the support of a few neighboring schools, singing our school song, and chanting away! It didn’t take long for the “We have rights “ chant to become “We have rice” chant. It was too funny to stop..and it pretty much sounds the same when you are yelling it!  After the march was the rally, we had a few speakers talking about awareness of special needs, as well as awesome dance performances and signing performances from my students!!! The media was there and a lot of people from the community came! We served channa and drink to follow and everyone left shortly after that. However, that doesn’t mean that our day ended. The music played loudly(as it always does in Guyana) and my students and I danced danced and danced the afternoon away under the trees shade(some how I still ended up sunburned)

It was one of my favorite days here. The kind of day that makes you realize your attitude really does change everything about the way you look at life. The kind of day that makes you want to have nothing but happiness and moments like these with kids you love so much. The kind of day that when you inhale you take it all in and when you exhale you cant let any of it go. The kind of day that you just never want to end. That’s the happiness I have here. You can have all the money in the world, all the possessions you can ever dream of, but if you don’t get a day like to day, in my opinion, you have nothing.

Peace, Love and Rice(Rights)