1-5-07 Since my internet connection is being screwed up, and feels like depriving me from all I know and enjoy, I will type this up in word and cut and paste it later. Today they (meaning the FSU people) arranged for an English-speaking tour guide to take us around Panama Viejo, Casco Antiguo (the European-influenced, old center of the city), the Miraflores locks at the canal, and a craft fair right near where we are staying. I’m in old military housing with my own bedroom and three other very nice girls in the duplex. The adjoining apartment in the duplex is also full of International Program FSU students. We’re in a suburb of Panama City, Balboa, in a neighborhood called La Boca. Es debajo del Puente de las Americas (Bridge of the Americas) which is part
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