Todavia Aqui

Hey!

Every day I am more and more in awe of the fact that I am in Panama. I´ll tell you what, I love Latin America... catcalls, wierd latrines, and showers aside. Ha. I went out to communities again this week and was amazed at how much the volunteers are actually getting done.... I have some rockstar kids to supervise and I definitely didn´t give them enough credit to get this stuff done... Still getting used to my role as a supervisor and not a volunteer and going from community to community... not really staying in one place long. But it´s really cool because I see a lot of people from my communities and Santiago (the city I live in) on the bus and randomly around... It´s a small area so I get to see a lot of them randomly and I get to experience 3 communities instead of one. In my last community there is this CRAZY grandma who gossips about people and laughs at herself all of the time... she´s 92 and freaking hilarious and there are a ton of teenage kids in the community and a large group of guys who play soccer really freaking well. And we got to go dancing this week... Love it. Got to Merengue and really be lead... which I am still trying to get used to and I love being pushed around the dance floor and twirled.... but I don´t think I´m going to pick up Salsa real quick - especially with a partner, it is damn hard.... It is always good getting back to staff house on the weekend and spending time with the other supervisors... we have such an awesome group and work well together.... So I am loving it still and doing well and trying to relax into Mary Ann the supervisor role and be myself and a supervisor at the same time.... which is a REALLY wierd transition but it is happening slowly and awkwardly... funny how that works. I still don´t deal well with awkward... Oh well. I love Panama. And my Spanish is getting so much better every day.

that´s all