Posts Tagged ‘Panama’

July 7th, 2010 - 7:00 pm § in Around Town, Culture, Day in the Life, Panama

The Devils of Panama City

A rarely heard utterance: “My favorite thing about the city was the buses.” A Dutch traveler said it to me about Panama City before I left. I inwardly scoffed; she must just think that because they use bikes so much in the Netherlands. But then I got there, and she’d nailed it. Sorry, Karl[...]

July 5th, 2010 - 9:00 am § in Country, Culture, Day in the Life

Paging Maintenance, We Have a Crisis in Aisle 4

I walked in and froze at the abundance. The shelves towered over my head. The aisles extended half a football field into the store. Endless varieties of products created a hall-of-mirrors effect down the shelves. I’d gone to supermercados in Costa Rica, but they were relatively small. This was[...]

June 30th, 2010 - 9:04 pm § in Costa Rica, Culture, Nicaragua

Bye, Bye, Bias

I went to Nicaragua for Semana Santa, the Holy Week before Easter. When I told my Costa Rican students, they asked the same question: Why? Everyone sounded shocked. They thought it was dangerous, that the people weren’t nice, and there always seemed to be a story about dangerous dogs. Then, when I[...]





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