Finishing up in Dwitabiki

By Mayuri Ghosh

I stayed at the guest house in Dwitabiki last night. As it was a pretty big guest house, and I was not feeling very brave by myself (especially after meeting 2 frogs in the living room), I had accepted the village administrator’s offer to let his daughters sleep with me. The night had been eventful in that in the absence of a translator, the daughters and I had stayed awake trying to figure out when to switch the lights in the bedroom on and off. Sleeping in the hammock had been more fun!

At Dwitabiki, along with Peace Corp Volunteer Michael’s help, I had a brief interaction with a village administrator who gave me a good perspective on the village in terms of its infrastructure and socio-economic conditions. We also visited the school and polyclinic. At the school interviewed the children and teachers once again, with outcomes and responses similar to those of their counterparts in Godoholo. They WANTED TO LEARN THE COMPUTER and the whole new world outside. The polyclinic here was much bigger, cleaner and more modern. The mode of communication with the city hospitals was through a static radio, similar to that in Godoholo.

As we had our “chartered flight” back to Paramaribo around 11:30am, we did not spend too much time in the village. Way back to Paramaribo. Re-united with Jaclyn there, who was bed-bug-bitten but happy.

The “Spring Break” came for us when we spent the evening with a boat-ride to “Sunset Point” with some of our new friends. Jaclyn and I wished that Chrissy had also been here to share the fun… So the trip ended under the skies on the boat…

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