Entries Tagged ‘panama’:

Shorter days in England

In Panama starts to get dark around 6 pm and by 7pm it is completely dark. However, here in England starts to get dark around 4 pm and it is completely dark at 5 pm. While I was living in the USA, I never experience that radical change in light or in other words, the [But wait there is more...]

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Cheap calls to Panama from UK

My parents don’t have a land-line because where they live there is no phone line, yet. While I was in Panama last May, my dad asked for a phone line. There are residencies near my parents’ house and they do have land-line. The phone company only needs to take one line from there to my [But wait there is more...]

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I am getting married at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort in Panama.

I’m getting married at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort in Panama, next year, around the end of summer. The summer in Panama starts in January and last until the end of April (I think…) Panamá doesn’t have “summer” we just call it the dry season. Panama has a rainy season and a dry season. Last April [But wait there is more...]

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Schoolgirls do not like backpacks

Yesterday after class I took the bus to go back home. It was around 3:15pm, most kids get out of school at 3 pm. Around 3 pm the bus usually gets full of kids, and for my surprise none of the schools girls were using a backpack. It was the first time in my four [But wait there is more...]

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Getting in a Hot Air Balloon – Oxford

Yesterday, while I was riding the bus from campus to Home, I saw and air balloon and just like the first time, I felt again amazed about the sight of a big balloon in the air. In Panama we don’t have hot air balloons; I better say it this way ‘I have never seen a [But wait there is more...]

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