Two Months Down, as Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama
Two months in site and it is going well! Still visiting just about every house in my community to have a more personal interaction with them and get to their family. I visited one community member's house and they were making these beautiful wooden chairs with a machete and a piece of cardboard! It has taken them a few weeks to make them, carving them from a big tree and slowly peeling the bark off with their machete and a small part of cardboard to protect their hand. Just me riding around in the community on my house and my best buddy Loki wants to follow me around :D Me and a few volunteers walking part of the way to the Black Christ festival in my region. Many people during the week of October 21 make a pilgramage to Portobelo, Colon! We met some people who had walked from Panama City to Portobelo ( through the rain or hot sun for about 90 miles!) in purple robes and some without any shoes. I saw a few even carrying small platforms with a black Jesus on top of it ...