So the longer I'm here the more normal my life seems to become. And by that i mean the less strange things feel. When people ask me what's new, I have no more good stories to tell. Maybe its just not weird anymore to wake up and find an egg under my hammock. I mean, a chickens gotta lay the thing somewhere after all. Or how about the other day when I fell asleep against a convenient store wall laying on my bag and an old man came over and poked me and told me I wasn't allowed to sleep there, it wasn't out of the ordinary. And what's strange about a 5 year old kid climbing to the top of a 6 story tall tree and jumping into the river below,which is only about 10 feet deep. I was a little surprised the other day though when I got some spaghetti and they didn't serve it on top of a huge plate of rice! I was just getting used to that too...oh well.

Life is very good here. My community is just completing it's first project which is a water en-catchment system as well as a kitchen for the school. After being approved for a grant(thanks again Michael!!!) my people were given much more motivation to donate their labor in order to get this project completed by mothers day, which here in Panama is on December 8th. As usual, the gift we are giving the moms is one that helps them work for us even easier. I will be making a post upon the completion of the project, including a video hopefully, so stay tuned!

Also included here is a photo that was taken by some guys who showed up randomly one day in a helicopter! They took a lot of pictures then sent them to Anne, one of our tour guides, who then sent them to me.