Good thing I was raised Catholic?

This morning I tought two Panamanian classes in a local school, and at the beginning of the Second Grade class the teacher had me stand up and recite the Our Father in English for the class to repeat...uhh....

This morning was excellent! I woke up around 5:45am and headed up to the fútbol field to play some sunrise Ultimate. Chris and I drew out in the dirt a small field to play 3’s seeing as there were only 6 of us(though not a bad turnout for 6am in a small pueblo in Panamá). It felt great to run around and get my blood going early, not to mention the delight that it could be done while playing with a disc. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out after a few points that most of the people who came out had a pretty good grasp on a few more technical rules than I had anticipated(insert me sort of looking like an ass a few times for attempting to explain what many of them already knew). At the end they were all excited to come back and do it again, so with any luck this will become a trend.

Aside from the Ultimate, I have been having a very nice time down here. I know it seems from previous post that perhaps all I do is await dusk to watch lizards eat bugs, but I promise that it is only a minor past time. Around 12 days ago a fellow trainee and I headed out to the Camarca to visit a volunteer living on a beautiful beach in the Bocas del Toro area. It required first a 6 hour bus ride, then a 2 hour chiva ride over the mountains, and finally a 2 hour or so boat ride across the Bocas Lagoon over to a little peninsula. The boat ride was beautiful and along the way we were even accompanied by a dolphin swimming and jumping with us only 20 feet from the boat. The other trainee and I spent around 3 days out there before enjoying a little bit of the David life where we ate pizza, used the internet and watched a Clash of the Titans in a movie theatre for $2.00. It was a good weekend.

I’ve been updating my smugmug frequently with photos, so if you have an interest to see what any of these experiences look like feel free to visit me there. www.tease.smugmug.com

Later dudes!

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Nom Nom Nom! Lizard dinner!