Panama Update #76
October 30, 2008
We just heard that the apartment we have been waiting for will not be available. We know the person who lives there now and he was waiting to move into another apartment. We had everything arranged with his landlord that when he moved out, we would move in. It is a 2 bedroom very close to where our dorm room is now. It turns out that the apartment he was waiting to rent is has been rented out from under him. The person who owns the building decided to rent it to someone else for a higher price and they didn't check with him first to see if he would match it. The same thing happened to us a couple of months ago with a different apartment we were looking at. We'll keep looking and maybe it will work out for the best.
On Saturday I am going out to the field with Nikki and a group from her office for 3 nights. She wants to do some research near the mouth of the Chagres River. The river feeds into the canal and was a critical piece when the canal was being built. It is on the Carribean side of the country. We have arranged for housing through the agency that Nikki works for. It is supposed to be very beautiful there. I plan to keep up with the blogs and if we have internet access I will post them right away. If there is no internet I will plan to post them when we return on November 5.
