A Blur

March 25th, 2010 by Sarah Henderson

Where has nearly a month gone??? These first couple of weeks have been a blur of work and fun, so much so that I only just realised that I have been in Panama for almost a month and away from Australia for 6 weeks!

It has been exciting and hard. Full of fun and hard work. A well-rounded and rewarding experience to date!

As a very brief overview of work activities: I helped to introduce the ReAL Boquete recycling program to a local bilingual school which was interesting considering my Spanish skills, I lead a group in a community clean up (we lost the competition but recycled properly), I have been up to Volcancito to Paradise Gardens and seen a great space we can use for a sponsorship event, I have been to the GEM project in David for one of the other volunteers last days, I have complied numerous Charity Quiz’ (with the help of some great people), I’ve done lots of recycling, gathered all the information for our new website, been to countless meetings and studied so much spanish to just name a few things. There has been a lot of work but there is always time for extra-cirricular activities!

We have been to a restaurant just out of Boquete on the way to David where you eat/drink and swim in their pool. We played cards there for hours and it was at this gem of a restaurant that i tried my first blackberry cobbler. I wasn’t dissapointed!!! We have been to the hot spring and river where we relaxed for the whole day, I’ve been on an Island trip to the Pacific side of Panama which was breath taking and I have watched many a movie while eating frozen snickers (we should get theses in Australia for sure!)
I don’t know why this is in italics either because I tried to make it not but whatever!
I’m not missing Australia the country at all but i am starting to miss the people there. Not too much but enough that a weekend at home would not be un-welcome! I can say though that I am in no way ready to leave here and i don’t think i ever will be. Its a beautiful country with beautiful people and I could see myself living here for quite a while yet. I know these next 3 months here and going to go so unbelievably fast and so i’m working on enjoying each beautiful day and loving the new and interesting people you come across as you travel. Its the best lifestyle!
Love from Panama!

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 5:25 am and is filed under Panama.

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