Blogs from Cerro Punta, Chiriquí, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 3

It’s amazing to see how my outlooks on things change. I’m sorry to keep going on about spiders, but spiders keep coming after me! At this moment, I know where at least five different spiders are in my house. If I was back in the US, and I knew where even one spider was located, it would be dead. Granted, the spiders that I know of are all nickel sized or smaller, but I still would have killed them in the States. I just had to kill another big one. I was hoping I was done with giant spiders, but alas, they were not done with me. I was in my room minding my own business, when I decided to go downstairs for a glass of pineapple juice. I didn’t even get down the stairs before ... read more

I strung up a piece of parachute cord across my living room to hang up my laundry so that it dries. Nothing dries here, for the record. I got up to the office to start reading scientific papers and whatnot, and the kids came again. Like I said before, they're adorable, but I can't get anything done with them here. I had to put my computer off limits, and they kept asking to go down to my house (they wanted chocolate). Unfortunately, my laundry is all over my house, and I don't particularly need little kids to see my underwear hanging around. I appeased them by letting them watch movies in English on my iphone, but the movie distracts me from being able to read. They eventually left and I went to look for frogs in ... read more

Oh man. I shouldn't be allowed to go grocery shopping when I don't eat lunch. My purchases: icing a bag of hershey's chocolate nuggets cookies and cream chocolate bar gum potato chips plantain chips bread pb strawberry preserves pineapple juice milk cereal campbell's chicken noodle campbell's chicken and vegetable Barilla noodles (yay! name brand) cheese Granted, most of those things aren't too bad, but the top three weren't my best decisions. Other than my trip to the grocery store, not a lot happened, besides Thomas trying to convince me that my house is actually haunted. He lived there for two weeks and is trying to convince me that he's seen a figure on the roof, then looks closer and it's gone. I know he's kidding, but now I have to look.... read more

Hopefully, last night was the last of them, at least for a while. I killed that giant spider that had been hanging out on my ceiling. It's been there for the past 5 nights or so (that I know of) and I had gotten pretty used to seeing it there in the same spot every night, so I was a little bit surprised when I walked up to my room last night and it was gone. There wasn't too much to worry about, as the little (huge) fella sometimes just went up into the ceiling for cover, I guess. You see, my room used to have sky lights in it, apparently. Unfortunately, they took them out and covered the whole roof with corrugated roofing, leaving a gap for the spider(s?) to craw into. I did a ... read more

I think yesterday was day 10 of my adventure. I forgot to say that I met two American tourists and another american couple that relocated to Panama the day before. It was nice to be able to speak to a stranger in English. In general, if there's a stranger here, I can't talk to them. The only exciting part of yesterday was my totally fail attempt at making a grilled cheese sandwich. You see, I share a kitchen with bunch of other people, and when they cook on the stove, they just leave whatever they made in the dish and put a lid over it. Of course, the only frying pan had someones food in it, but I had my mind set on grilled cheese. I was not leaving that kitchen until I had a belly ... read more