Archive for the ‘Volunteer Journals’ Category

Let it Rain!

Posted: March 15, 2011 in Volunteer Journals
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Thanks Dave for all your hard work with GHA on the water catchment system in Bocas del Toro. Read more about his experience.

MountainScapes, quality of life, local festivities, & adventure… oh my!

Posted: March 8, 2011 in Adventure, Uncategorized, Volunteer Journals
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Here, I am. Happily enveloped by the sweet aroma of fresh soil, I lifted my head towards the endless magnificent mountainscapes; a surprising contentedness had begun to kindle hearth deep from within.  Small beads of my sweat coruscated abruptly, as they began falling towards the earth. Caeser, my teacher and fellow farm-hand, spoke broken English [...]

English Spelling Bee in the Islands of Panama

Posted: October 25, 2010 in Volunteer Journals
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10/22/10 This morning, with the kids from the school on Isla Solarte, I attended an English competition for students in the Bocas del Toro region. Students from many of the different islands took part in a reading, dictation, spelling, singing, and a poem competition. One keen little girl from our group participated in three events, [...]