Category: Travel

This morning we had to be up and out of the hostel by 9:30am for our second class at the University of Panamá.  I had stayed up late last night finishing my blog post for the day and talking with friends, then had to shower and still get ready for bed.  Needless to say, I was pretty tired this morning.  A lot of the girls, including myself, were sore from two full days of dancing...

Today was a day of rest for all the dance volunteers and MUCH needed!  We were pretty tired from our full day of 4 classes yesterday. We woke up at 9-9:30am and got dressed to walk down to 'Super Gourmet.' It was delicious and I got two fresh blueberry muffins and dear Paige surprise bought me a chocolate chip cookie that I had been eyeing.  After the café we went to the...

This morning I woke up pretty early at 5:00am and did not feel very well.  OH NO! This can't happen on day 3!  Luckily, I got to sleep in till 9am and when I woke up, ate my Cherrios and toast, I felt much better. We were off at 9:30am in our big yellow school bus/van to The University of Panamá were the lovely Typhani (that I spoke off yesterday) would be teaching us, as well as the...

Drip. Drip. Drip. (broken ac) 6:00am alarm goes off. 7:15am came early after the long day of flying.  I ate Cherrios, a banana, and the rest of my Starbucks iced lemon pound cake.  We were off in the bus by 8:30am to drive to Chepo, a small city in Panamá, where we would meet 40 children that are part of a organization that has a small (after school type) program that teaches dance!...

Okay y'all, I had to blog the second part of my first day in Panamá!   My flight got delayed about 45 minutes in Houston so that was a bummer but once we were on the 3 hour 41 minute flight they gave us a snack which was more like a dinner! Chicken burrito, salad (I didn't eat this), baby carrots with ranch, and a brownie. Score! I watched the free movie "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,"...