Advertisement
Published: April 2nd 2010
Edit Blog Post
tanks
tanks that collect rainwater for showering! scenery and animals around San San Ponds.
I have to say, from what I've seen of Panama, it is stunningly beautiful! Sure, I really only stayed at the camp area for the volunteer project, and I didnt get to see any large cities, or the canal or whatever, but from what I have seen of Panama, I absolutly love it.
Shen, Neil and I went swimming in the river to cool off every afternoon. The water is a brownish-green-blue, depending how it looks for that day and who knows how dirty it is, but it certainly is refreshing! I kept wondering if piranah's were in there, lol.
I took several pics of animals, as you can see. We had a very IRRITATING rooster whom I nicknamed "middle finger rooster" EVERY DAY that damn thing would crow. And crow, and crow. Beginning at 430 and wouldnt go away til about 7. OR he would crow once or twice....and ten mins of silence, then as you doze off...."cock-a-doodle-do!" its like he would WAIT til you'd doze off again. Like he KNEW. Other days it seemed he purposedly lingered outside our window. Like he knew which bunks were occupied and which
Rooster
How I hate thee....he woke us up EVERYDAY at around 4am or so...and would not stop crowing were not. There was also a cute little hen that followed the rooster around but I never took any pics of her. I bet she was even annoyed by her rooster friends crowing. One day Neil cracked me up by saying (in his very suave British accent) "I wanted to throw a coconut at that rooster" and Shen said "I wanted to wrangle his neck. Look, his neck looks a little more wrangled today than yesterday." He did have a weird looking scrawny neck!
I took some great pics around the river area at sunset. I love them. I want to get them developed and put them in some frames to hang up in my house! Although, not sure if palm trees really go with "Paris" (thats the majority of the theme in my apt)
Anyway, some of the pics you see are these giant blue tanks. Thats the plumbing. Thats right. Large, plastic blue tanks "catch" rainwater and that is what we use for bathing, cooking, and drinking! I know, some of you it sounds "odd" or "dirty" but it was actually kind of cool. If it didnt rain....well....we'd use well water. I was very freaked out
about drinking the water, despite it being well or rainwater, but I was fine. One of my biggest fears is getting sick abroad and it completely ruining my trip, or I have to go to a foreign hospital where I dont speak the language and I dont have insurance. Anyway....I was fine drinking the water!
Also...there was no electricity. There was a generator that was run about 2 hours a night, and when that went off....poof! Darkness. We needed flashlights for the night patrols and like an idiot I didnt bring one. One night I used the light from my cell phone to use the bathroom. Luckily, it wasnt TOO dark. I mean, you could see, the moon was out, and there were clouds, so it wasnt PITCH blackness out. But it was certainly nice to be away from "modern" technology. There was no internet, no tv, no cell phone usuage. Although I am a text messaging fiend, so I was kind of dying w/o it, lol. But on some nights when we'd all be sitting on the hammocks talking I'd think "not one person can get ahold of me right now, even if they tried" it was kind
horsie
pretty horse of a cool feeling to be "disconnected" in a way, considering, in todays modern world we are always so "turned on."
I felt a world away being on the beaches of Panama. One week prior, I had never met Shen, Neil, or Erick or had never even met anyone from Panama before. And here I was, shy little me, was making new friends.
Advertisement
Tot: 0.071s; Tpl: 0.028s; cc: 6; qc: 23; dbt: 0.0313s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb