Month: 2015/05

Tomorrow we depart for our first “pause” from Panama. It’s time for another border run to reset the clock on our tourist visa, the girls are out of public school for a week vacation and we want Haley to continue

Haley hasn’t been at local school all week. Next week the kids are all on a week-long break so this week is testing, which we don’t have to do. So that’s been a nice break for Haley. Zoe went to

Hello! This is Haley, and I just wanted to let you all know that I will be posting here from now on as kind of a homeschool project. This morning, Phinny, mom, and I went to the beach and walked

Panamanians are very honest and genuine people. They tell it like it is and make no apologies for it. But they also have no ulterior motives so you really can’t fault them for speaking the truth. I had two examples

One of the reasons we wanted to go off on an international adventure was to downshift our lifestyle a bit. Living in Gilbert, AZ made it easy to drive less than a mile to buy whatever item you could possible

This is Dan. I thought I’d share an experience I just had trying to get our car’s tags renewed here in Panama. We purchased our 2010 Honda CRV back in November and the tags expire on May 25th. They are

I think my Spanish is getting better. I managed to be indignant in Spanish on camera for the Panamanian news. There was an impromptu protest today to raise attention about the lack of water in town. Some areas have been

When I started homeschooling I knew that I could tackle the math assignments well enough, and making sure the girls got in some good reading and language arts time also didn’t seem too daunting. But I was really not sure

The church is about a block away so when the bells ring we hear them. This afternoon they were ringing for quite a long time but there was no holiday that I knew about. When Marta came to cook dinner

In Spanish the phrase “no hay” is pronounced like “no I”. It means “there is none”. Today there was none of a whole lot of things. I went to the chino (grocery store) for the dinner ingredients and I asked