It's been about a week since I arrived in Panama City, Panama and began work as Senior Project Supervisor for a new initiative in Guna Yala, Panama with Amigos de las Americas. Guna Yala is a semi-autonomous region of Panama, called a Comarca, on the northern Caribbean coast, where the indigenous Guna people live on a gorgeous archipelago. But, as we all know, pictures are worth a thousand words, so here is a picture I took of one island on my first visit there this week:
All summer, I will be sleeping in one of these (in a house on one of the islands that has yet to be discovered by our staff team):
Most of this week has just been errands, errands, errands in Panama City to prepare for our (eventual) semi-permanent housing in Guna Yala. We've purchased everything from a printer to life vests to granola bars; our favorite place to shop ever is the Machetazo, a ginormous superstore that sells absolutely everything. There are aisles that look like this (it's tuna):
We've staying in a number of interesting hotels and hostels, most recently having the pleasure of meeting some crazy Irishmen and an old Spanish señor that hung his ginormous white briefs in our public dorm space. There's no picture of that, thank goodness. But instead I'll share a gorgeous view of the Panama City skyline from our first hotel:
I head to the islands again tomorrow, this time with Lauren and Morgan, the Project Director and Associate Project Director for our project, to find a house and really start to prepare for Supervisor arrival on June 7th. So far, all we really know is that it's going to be a total adventure. Starting an AMIGOS project from scratch, I have learned, is no walk in the park. ;) But it's a good thing I'm working with a team of rockstars (Lauren and Morgan, pictured below).
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¡Hasta la proxima!
YAY
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