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    Guyana 2002
    Guyana 2002
    Guyana 2002
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    Guyana 2002

    By Mark Burke

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    Ten pupils and a schoolteacher are led on a month long trip around Guyana,including a jungle trek into the interior.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Burke
    Release dateApr 5, 2010
    ISBN9781452369068
    Guyana 2002
    Author

    Mark Burke

    An international schoolteacher who has lived and worked all over the world, including Africa and South America

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      Guyana 2002 - Mark Burke

      INTRODUCTION

      In the summer of 2002 as a school teacher I accompanied ten pupils on a month long trip to the small South American country of Guyana. The trip was organised by World Challenge Expeditions and personally led by an appointed leader, who was usually some sort of outdoors instructor. The idea of the trip was that the pupils involved would fund, plan and lead their own expedition and learn valuable leadership and life skills by doing so. The expedition was to have several phases ; acclimatisation, a social project, a trek, and a final rest phase.

      The trip fell into my lap in the Easter of 2002, as the previous teacher in charge became pregnant. The departure date came around sooner than I would have liked and I felt like I had not done nearly enough to train and meld the boys into a team. I was young myself, and as an inexperienced traveller, viewed the venture with some apprehension. This is the story of how our team fared.

      PREPARATIONS

      I am 25 years old. It is my second year of teaching and I am still horrendously busy ; adapting to teaching a new subject and gemming up on A-level material, running a cricket club, a football team, and the Sailing Club. I have taken on the expedition with the understanding that the boys will pretty much run things themselves ; indeed that is the point of the whole venture. The boys are supposed to raise their own money and organise their preparations in a ‘team-building’ fashion that will stand them in good stead for the actual expedition, which, though supervised, they will actually ‘ lead’. The adults are there to intervene only if necessary. I am supposed to be a manager of sorts and the deputy leader on the actual trip ; the ‘School Link Leader’. I take on the project because the initiating teacher has fallen pregnant and cannot continue what she has started. I take on the project reluctantly and because I know no-one else will. We ‘re a small school and most people have other commitments. But I have little time to think of how I will help form the boys into a team that will manage and plan their own overseas expedition. Afternoons I am busy with sports teams, and evenings I am marking books and preparing lessons.

      Inevitably the boys do not have a lot of my time, and one notorious mother rings in to complain. She whines that any co-ordination seems only to be coming from World Challenge, and nothing from me. In irritation I point out that this is not altogether surprising ; that is the very job of World Challenge, whilst I am a full time Maths teacher . She wants me to personally train her son so that he is physically fit for the expedition. I fob her off as diplomatically as possible, and try and organise a couple of weekends with the boys where we will trek with packs and discuss preparations. The boys seem as busy as me as in the lead up to the expedition however, which likewise sees little coordination or leadership from them.

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