Blogs from Chiriquí, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 7

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Sorry for not updating as often as I should, but at least I have a reason- I keep forgetting until I get back to my house where I don't have internet. What? Were you expecting a good reason? Anyway, let's start with November 28th, the day after the SIM card fiasco. The day was normal, but the night, starting around 7pm, was awesome. We were supposed to leave for a "national parade" at 7, which of course meant that we left at 9. Fortunately, I decided to go look for frogs during those two free hours, and I found two Picado's Bromeliad Tree frogs! Now, I don't know if you all know this, but catching a frog out of a bromeliad is pretty difficult. They hang out in the pools of water in between the fronds ... read more

I started writing my blog yesterday and then forgot to finish. Oops. Two days ago I was in the process of setting up my phone for a new SIM card. I thought I was going to have to go all the way back to Volcan for the SIM card, but then Nadia informed me that they sell SIM cards at the grocery store down the road. I completely restored my phone and then walked down with her when she got off of work. She came in with me to give me a hand since I didn't necessarily know technical words for SIM cards and such, but when he brought the SIM card, we realized that it was too big. He said something about cutting it, but as we were looking at the size of the gold ... read more

Ok, a LOT has happened over the past few days... Let's start on Thanksgiving day. I grabbed a shower late in the morning and then started preparing my lunch. So there I am, standing in my kitchen with a towel wrapped around my head and no makeup on when suddenly someone is knocking on my window. At first I thought maybe it was someone coming to fumigate my house to get rid of the spiders, but then I looked and saw that it was a white woman. I took the towel off of my head and quickly fluffed my hair before answering the door. Apparently, some tourists made it all the way down to my house. I answered their questions and then left kind of hastily. They continued looking around down near my house and I ... read more

I actually had a lot of work to do today. I kept going right up until five o'clock. I worked on my permit application and then I worked on my applications for graduate school. I also had to send notifications to a few of my professors that I need letters of recommendation. Asking them to write me recommendations always makes me feel a little bit guilty. Maybe that's because it seems to me that they are always busy and never seem to have a spare moment, and I know tons of people ask them for recommendations. At least I have confirmation from all three of them that they'll write me good recommendations. I can't imagince coming out of college and going "uhhhh, who should I ask?" I've read articles entitled "how to get into grad school" ... read more