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February
Well this is certainly the warmest February I've ever experienced :) We were supposed to wake up and head out for service at 8:15 this morning…buuuuuuuut Meredith is the only one who made it out. Rae and I ended up getting out ...
The Day of the Almojabano
Today I rolled (almost literally) out of bed and into my skirt for the service meeting at 8:30am. YES. I said 8:30 0.o Fortunately it was in our living room, so at least we didnt have to walk far! It ended up just being Pablo, Isabel and us ...
soooo...the debit card situation
... I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BE THROUGH SECURITY. Many tearful hysteric phone calls later I decided to forget my debit card until I had an address in Panama for my bank to send it to. So yes. Im in panama living off of pocket change and I STILL dont have an ...
Coconuts!
... So…no such thing as an address. Though I've heard some of the white brothers might have them. If you want to mail us something, the "address" is Name, Town, Province, Country, General Mail. Like so: (Our names) Volcan, Chiriqui, Panama Correo ...
Almojabanos!
... Then because the Barreras family (Juan our only elder, Teresa his wife, Rebeca their daughter, and Juan their son) went to Panama City (they just call it Panama here), Rebeca asked Rae to study with Edilma (14 years old) at 2 today because they ...
soooooo the bus ride.....
9 hours. 9 freaking ours. On two buses. Ugh.traveled clear across the country dude! But now we all kinda want to go back... REALLY BAD... cuz its stinkin cold outside!!! I want heat! Funniest memories from the bus? Well.... I wake up to ...
Fruit Love Cone!
That's the name of our brand new, second hand, kind of works, give or take 15 minutes, imported from Asia ALARM CLOCK! Got it from one of those walk-in, side-of-the-road, we-sell-bobby-pins-and-blankets-and-batteries-and-40-year-old-eyeshadow ...
superbowl sunday
Attention all you sunday meeting 10 o'clockers! BE ASHAMED. Right now. Our meeting is at 8:30 in the mooornin! Honestly. I dont know how I got out of bed. Especially since Gladyce made us THE MOST AMAZING TEA EVER! That completely knocked me out ...
civil unrest!!
Civil Unrest! So we are currently trapped in the city of volcan with cut phone lines, briskly depleting gas and food, and no beer. But DONT PANIC! Its all gooood, we have shoes, we can walk! Riiiight? Ok, so the deal is that the government ...
Meeting at home!
... like I was biting my nails or something :) Then we sang the marriage song, 36 (that ones almost the same in LSP. Carlos from Panama City does the chorus xD) Pablo did the service meeting parts, another song, and that was that :) Lovely. LATER! Rae, ...
FREEZING!
... )), his wife Teresa, and their daughter Rebeca and…..a son whose name I forget :) Apparently there are about 90 Deaf here in Volcan, and 40 of them study!!!!!! There are 5 Deaf publishers I believe, and 11 hearing. We had a lovely time getting ...
Los Quetzales trail
Wow. Robin and I hiked the trail from Cerra Punto (Volcan area) to Boquete in 4 hours and people told us it would maybe take us 6 hours. We had a good pace going for sure. It was an amazing weekend and an amazing hike. The city of Volcan is different than ...
speaking of cheap beer....
speaking of beer..... ya we bought a lot (but can u blame us?? 40 cents dude! And es muy delicioso!)..... hahahaha the sister gave rachel a really weird look as she walked down the store aisle with a beer in each hand hahaha ohhhh welll... ...
first meeting in volcan! (im living in a yearbook)
... said that in the Chiriqui province (where we are right now) I guess its a COMPLETELY differently sign language than the one used back in Panama City with a different name and everything, but it looks to me to be the same... so I will have to do some more ...
first day in panama service!!!
... that the study was not home WOW) I took my second cold shower today it was soooo cold! Especially since its isnt humid here (volcan) like it was in Panama City. It pretty much was, stick ur limb of choice into water, scrub as fast as u can, and then dive ...
Volcanos, Butterflies, Waterfalls and Pooping Oxen
... Joe, 2 of my favorite people here, came up to me in the internet café and told me that they were planning on going to El Volcan Poas the following day, which I have been wanting to see since I got here. So of course when they ask me to go the answer ...
Boquete/Volcan - Day 3
... 't terraced so rows of crops are up very steep mountain sides. Happened upon town of Guadalupe which is the highest village in Panama. Town was having a farmers market, so we stopped for some fresh fruit and yummy skewers with meat, potatos, green peppers ...
2.6.12 Protest--Day Seven (forgive the drama)
... them to the others. Then someone turned the TV up, and I could hardly believe it. It was the police station here in Volcan, the same one we walked by every day since we got here, in flames. People were beating the gates and the walls with rods as ...
Volcan vs Penonomé
... ;ve seen firsthand signing so invigorating, touching and mind blowing… anything that falls short of that just doesn’t cut it for me anymore. That really scares me because I sense myself missing Panama already and I haven’t even left ...
Circuit Assembly & Meeting
... an audible "Si" to the two questions they were presented. It's nice to see eveyones hard work overcoming the challenges in Panama, bear positive fruit. One diferance between Panama & Canada is while we may enjoy a sandwich for our noontime meal, they ...
Superbowl Sunday (Take a Rock!)
... the very HOUR) after we arrived here in Volcan, the Ngobere people (one of the few indigenous tribes left here in Panama) staged a protest, blocking the Interamericana Highway and the road from David to here. We, completely unawares, made it here by the ...
getting my bearings...
I feel a lot better about this trip now that we girls have had a chance to catch up and talk about the trip and everything. Communication is so good! Bethy, rachel, and meredith are so nice and funny XD sense of humor is definitely a must down ...
omg im in panamaaaaa!!!
monday night, day three, january 30 11:39 volcan, panama to be precise. And its chilly :( windy chilly :( I wana go back to the sticky humidity of panama city lol. Im really thankful right now for the amount of clothes that I brought! Cuz even ...
im a lobster :(
yesterday was AMAZING! but i forgot one important detail. SUNSCREEN! now both of my arms, neck, face (especially face) is red red RED! and all of the locals are staring at us girls probably thinking "stupid american girrrrrls" hahaha... oh well... ...
Servicio!
Hahaha at one point during the night Rae thought she heard the roof blow off of the house xD I got up at 7 to go out in service with Isabel at 8:30. Oh I should tell you about our host family huh :) Gladys owns the house, she and her son Martin (her ...
Housebound
... some communications are down, not all the protesters are aware of that fact, so things aren't getting better everywhere. I don't know about Volcan. Gladys and Martin left the house today briefly to get an enzyme from a sister's store (since the others are ...
When it rains- IT POURS!
... to each other as he is a talented signer and really intelligent/ hilarious kid. One more difference I noticed between Volcan sign language and Penonome sign language congregations is that here they have a brother read the watchtower paragraphs aloud in ...
Volcan -Cerro Punta
... . Further northeast along the road from Volcán are the towns of Cerro Punta and Guadalupe. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/panama/chiriqui-province/parque-nacional-volcan-baru So now that the geography is taken care of let's talk about the bus ride to ...
Western Highlands with my friend, Richard
... dirt with big rocks and potholes...thank goodness for 4-wheel drive! Some of the places we've been are: Cuesta de Piedra, Volcan, Cerra Punta, Guadalupe, Bambito, Rio Serrano (on the Costa Rica boarder) and many other places that I can't remember. We ...
Cruisin' with the German Sheppard
... from this experience that centipedes are very tough to kill. But aside from this, things were very pleasant. The view of Volcan Baru, the nearly hourly cups of teas, and the no-English language environment were very relaxing. ...
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