Yeah, they're sorta cool--Donatello IS, in fact, my hero in a half-shell... BUT! Spending your 24th birthday on a tiny dairy farm in Panama, milking 120 cows, with the cutest little helper ever?!
Now, THAT is pretty darn a'moo'sing!
In other news, it's been a while, ey? Let me catch you up:
-Thanksgiving
-Christmas
-Family visit
-Happy 2011!!!
phew, are you still with me??
As of January, Panama has officially begun the summer season. So now, it's hot and dry. So hot. I am beginning to miss the cool reprieve of afternoon rainfall. We like to beat the heat with loads of trips to a nearby river--I don't know why I hadn't been here before now! It's beautiful and so much closer than the other swimming hole I usually frequent.
Tough life, huh? Sometimes I work, too! ;) Right now, everyone in Calobre is focused on one thing: Watermelon. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but Calobre is known around the country for it's fantastic watermelon! (Several people here are convinced it is the best in the world! ha) So, I have been hopping from farm to farm learning about the watermelon process and helping out wherever I can.
I also sent a request to MIDA, agricultural agency, asking for over 100 PVC tubes for our women's group to put in an irrigation system and have clean drinking water on their collective land. Luckily, they said it shouldn't be a problem! So, fingers crossed they follow through and we can work out a delivery soon!!
Other than that, the days come and go. Things that were once strange, shocking, unusual have become a part of the regular routine. While that is comforting in some ways, it seems the 'routine' often causes me to lose site of the bigger picture--just how cool this all is and that this experience, like most, is not permanent..and it is already March! Time is going by quickly...although I am not sure how I feel about that yet, for now, I am really trying to make the most of each day...to work with routines and make detouring adventures. As Michaelangelo would say: "Party!"
I hope you are all having your own wonderful adventures, and whatever they may be, I want to hear about them! Love you all.
