Valle Primavera Boquete

... br>I´m staying in the dorm on the bottom floor. There are 10 beds, but<br>only 5-7 people. A couple of the guys have their guitars and play all<br>the time. To be honest, a lot of the traveling rouge musician types get<br>on my nerves. They play all the time and not that well and they don´t<br>ever wonder if the other people around might not like it. These guys<br>are an exception. They are really good. Last night, they were<br>practicing in the room...some ...

... our lesson times so that way we can walk to school together :) <br><br>Robb received some good news yesterday- we are going to have a couple more volunteer opportunities at the orphanage, meaning we will be going there at least 3 times a week. I'm looking forward to be consistent with these kids, it's something they really lack in their lives. Aside from the orphanage, we are supposedly heading to Santiago (half way between here and Panama City ...

Yesterday morning I took a bag of clothes to an orphanage just outside<br>of town. I left them with one of the women who cares for the children.<br>This morning I went back and found at least five of the children<br>running around in the clothes from my bag. It was beautiful - seeing<br>their smiling faces in the clothes I'd brought them. Only the clothes <br>weren't from me. They had traveled, from ...

... thank god! Just knowing they were out there somewhere was enough for me. <br><br>We were let off at the far end of the beach around 130 and started our trek that was supposed to last 2 1/2 hours..little did we know that it would be 2 1/2 hours in Panamanian time...which translates into 4 1/2 to 5 hours! Every 30 minutes the locals who escorted us would say "it's just another 30minutes..it's right around the bend...just another 30 minutes..and another, and another ...

... any traffic in either direction. We would have to walk down the steepest of hills to the second ranger station to try and hail a collectivo back to town. Of course it started raining half way down as well but lucky for us it only lasted about 10 mins. We ran into some malnourished cows along the way, all tied up to the fence and making it known to everyone that they were not happy about it! The farmer came out now and again to swat them on their behinds to shut ...

... with no Jazz, for drinks.<br><br>The next day we headed off on our rafting adventure. Kim has been a bit accident prone on the trip and this was no different. In the middle of a pretty serious class 4 rapid we hit a hole and everyone, including the guide went flying out of the raft. Kim fell out and smacked her face on the paddle of the guy in front of her. I managed to get back into the raft quickly and when I saw Kim, she had a big ...

... parts just destroyed by a landslide. As we had walked just half of the way, it started to rain quite heavily, but is stopped like half an hour later. We will show some pictures of the path. Marcus made a very nice one of me and Amelia, but he still has to send them to us.<br><br>Ach so! I am pleased to say that we lost our path, and were quite lost in fact...but I found it!! Yupi!!! For once I help us in finding our path and not the other way around : )<br><br>When the ...

Wow this internet is slow! It's taken some time now to finally update my blog but I have tons of info to share! To start off, I officially left Monteverde, finished my practicum, and finished university!!! Yeah!! Now it is time to enjoy my vacation! The last few days in Monteverde were a bit stressful. I was trying to finish up a whole lot of curriculum while the school was experiencing some difficulties. Everything's finished now though! There was some good things that happened ...

... know, shopping is not one of my favorite activities, but Barbara a "professional shopper" was tremendous helping me locate all the things I needed to acquire while stateside. You saved my ass big time Babs....thanks. And Bill Hartman in Vegas pulled through by sending my laptop along to me. It has been resting comfortably in a closet in his lovely home since I left the states. What an enormous relief THAT is. Plus, my iPod was in the computer bag with the laptop. Big mistake not ...

... finding out about the November incident, we figured this place had a lot more happening stuff at one time prior to the flooding. We don't mind it much. It's been a VERY relaxing couple of days, just driving around, stopping for Coffee here and there while looking at the beautiful mountain area and the cool mountain breeze, and looking forward to every meal time. I should mention, the hotel we are staying in (rather, B &amp; B) would be a highly recommended place to stay ...