18 months down. 8 months to go.
It’s been over a year in site. Your service begins to change. You’ve stopped fighting, wriggling, struggling- you’re in the final stretch of the marathon and you can feel your […]
It’s been over a year in site. Your service begins to change. You’ve stopped fighting, wriggling, struggling- you’re in the final stretch of the marathon and you can feel your […]
OK so many, many things have happened since I posted last. Here are the highlights: 1. A community member dragged me off my bike to keep me from hurting myself […]
OK so surgery wasn’t on my plan for Peace Corps in Panama. In fact, it was that dreaded worst-case-scenario where I read about all the poor volunteers who lose a […]
What does the bickering in Washington mean for the Peace Corps volunteers in Panama? Nothing much at the moment. Despite being part of the State Department, the Peace Corps has […]
Is their goddamn tracks. Sorry for the language, but seriously. You’re slow, you go into trances that allow anyone to smack you around while you lay your eggs, and you […]
This July 4th, 5 PCVs collaborated with a team of researchers from the US, a biologist from Cocle, 4 mildly ambivalent ANAM personel (National Authority of the Environment), and one […]
This past week marks the very fortuitous meeting of the community ‘gringos’. Together we number 8 and make up 2% of the community: an English landowner and entrepreneur who bought […]
Eggs Last night I rolled over in bed and felt something hard underneath my shoulder. It was an egg. I thought how happy I was it hadn’t broken open at […]
How to pack for two years in a tropical climate? Lightly. And I don’t mean pack light-weight clothing (well, I don’t just mean that.) I mean do not bring two […]
Religion in my community is a daily activity- or at least it has been for the few weeks since I arrived. When I had my site visit during training in […]