Some days everything just works out, completely without warning or planning. Yesterday we met some new friends we had befriended online, signed our contract for our next (long term) rental, met our new neighbors, got two packages from home,...
School and Laundry Update
School update, day 2! This morning Haley was wearing street clothes. She insisted that her classmates instructed her to do this, but I was dubious. Turns out it was OK… to BRING street clothes. When she arrived everyone was...
Back to School For Reals
School started today! For real! Zoe was up and energetic very early. School is always so good for her, the extrovert that she is. It was a rare rainy morning (usually whatever rain we have stops by early morning)...
Not Back to School
The girls are home from school already, a mere 12 minutes after it started! ha! Turns out there’s no school for the lower grades today. I had heard from a friend who has a kinder kid that school is...
Laundry Lady
Getting our laundry done this past week has been comical. Well, not so comical at the time but now that we have it (mostly) done, it’s OK to laugh… It started on Tuesday, the day after the most recent...
Back to School Shopping
Earlier this week I was told of a local expat from Australia who sends her kids to the local Panamanian school. She was very nice to meet with me yesterday and answer all my questions. She told me of...
“Are you glad you moved to Panama?”
Several of you have asked me the same question privately so I thought I’d post it here along with my answer: “Are you glad you moved? Are you having the experience that you wanted?” The answer is unequivocally YES...
Guidelines for Living in Panama
Today’s experience at Mailboxes Etc was a microcosm of our life here. It also allows me to illustrate several guidelines for living in Panama. Guideline 1: Rarely will one day be fully good or fully bad. We successfully set...
(Not) Planning Ahead in Pedasi
We are very happy to be in Pedasi. Our house has a lot more room to hang out and thanks to our air conditioner we spent most of the day just lounging and relaxing. Sometimes you need days when...
Four New Gringos in Pedasi
I am writing this from our dining room table, which is outside on the porch facing the cows. We are settling in nicely to Pedasi although we are reminded that transitions are always hard. We arrived Friday after a...