April 5, 2012
The rainy season has started! April 1st came, and
it is like someone flipped a switch. Now we get a pretty good rain everyday in
the afternoon. It is a nice excuse to sit in the hammock and read or take a
nap. I have been told that once it starts raining, people stay in their houses
and don’t do much of anything—good to know, since we have 8 months of rain
coming.
Last weekend, I went into Torti to meet up with a friend who
lives about an hour and a half down the road. There was a feria (like a county
fair) in town for the weekend, so we met up to get in our share of fair food,
bootleg CDs and English. After a month of talking in Spanish to people I don’t
really know, it was so nice to have a conversation in a language I understand
with a person I know well enough not to have to talk about the weather. We also
found some pretty stylish hammocks, so I’m ready to move into my casa in two
months!
Also, I have a puppy! I didn’t want to mention it before,
and I still might be a little early in saying anything. I don’t want to get too
attached too soon, in case he doesn’t make it, but it maybe too late for that.
His name is Jay Pup, and he is pretty darn cute. I think he was born around the
day that I swore in as a PCV, so he is about 3 weeks old. He has 5 brothers and
sisters, who I am really trying to have nothing to do with—I don’t want to be
the crazy Gringa with a pack of dogs following her everywhere. I’m pretty
excited to get settled into my new house and have something to talk to in
English. He won’t understand what I’m saying, but that seems to be the norm for
me here in Panama.
It is Holy Week, which means that no one is working and the
kids are off from school. So, I came with my host family to stay at the house
of one of my host sisters. I’m not sure where we are. Someone mentioned that we
were going to Panama City, but we are definitely not in the city. We are in one
of the nicest houses that I have seen since being in Panama, indoor bathrooms,
tiled floors, in ground pool, satellite TV! So, we’re going to spend the next
couple of days in luxury.
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