Panama Update #115
January 11, 2009
Yesterday (Saturday) we went for a long bike ride on the Causeway in the morning. We left by 7 AM which is a great time to go before it gets too hot. The round trip took about an hour and a half. We love to stop at one of the corner markets on the way back and get a bottle of agua de pipa (coconut water). It tastes great when you are thirsty. And it is easy to get thirsty here with all the heat. Last night we saw the movie Australia. It is a long movie but both of thought it was pretty good. Sometimes the new movies are delayed a few months in getting here. At the peak time they still only charge $4 admission. It was a long movie and it was English with Spanish subtitles. Sometimes they dubb the movies and don't have subtitles. Those are good practice for learning Spanish. If it is a children's movie it is at about the right level to understand it.
Our landlord installed our washer and dryer for us and also upgraded the security with bars on some of the windows and a chain on the doors. They are things that they have on most houses here.
I am scheduled to go back to work on Tuesday and have also picked up some clients for private English tutoring. I am tutoring the 5 year old daughter of our landlord a couple of times a week and also some adults in the neighborhood. They have found out that I tutor and have inquired about it. We also found out today that someone who works at the school where I do lives only two doors down from us. I had no idea until we saw him today while we were our for a walk.
