Month: 2015/09

Panamanians love a parade. You could probably travel around the country and see a parade every weekend if you wanted to (read: you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a parade). This time there was a big one in

Here’s some random updates from Panama for you today: 1. We’ve been having some big storms the last few nights. The thunder is so loud it makes you instinctively duck and cover your head. Haley says it sounds like someone

We were not here last year at this time so we have no idea if the current weather is normal, but we hear El Niño is really messing up the wet season. Here was the conversation in my head the

Pretty much speaks for itself in Panama Public School.  

We had a typical Panama Moment this weekend. Dan and I were on our way back from Costa Rica, after doing our last border run (good riddance on that chaotic process!). We stopped at a major grocery store for a

When is the school closed for a vacation? When does the new hospital open? These seem like fairly straightforward questions. They should have factual answers, right? Uh, no. Not in Panama. Or at least not for this gringa. Panamanian public