2012. A New Year.

2012. Now approaching the final 200 meter stretch!



Also, anyone who knows me, knows I am becoming glued to my guitar. Some volunteers read, others go to cantinas and refresh themselves with the locals. I spend a lot of my fun time jamming either alone or with panamanians. Slowly i've stepped into town music teacher and although my past history has always been teaching foreign lanuguages, you'd be surprised how much teaching different types of music and rhythem also poses as if it were a different language sometimes! Anyway, for fun I'll record some progressions that I liked and then I'll improvise solos over my recording, its so much fun and just liberating, here's a practice session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7sWVrpBOs&feature=youtu.be

August 2011

Another Peace Corps Volunteer's site, this is an indigenous Embera pueblo in the southern indigenous reservation of SAMBU.

Carmen Flemming's Site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34uV1lSgR8&feature=related

Empowering Rural Panamanian Schools and Bayamon Visit

The following video is a snippet of a project my compadres and I are developing poco a poco. Its been very rewarding thus far and are hoping to build on it as time progresses...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkXpXVxJ08

Visiting Home for the First time!

Yup, got to go home and visit the family for a week. It was really nice to reconnect and see how big everyone has gotten, also my family conseguir'd two more dogs while I was away... oh boy.

(NOTE: You may want to turn your speakers down and cock your head sideways for most of the clip...)

One Year Update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qg09aljmIc

One Year Update



The video shows clips from Meteti to an Embera Congreso in Villa Caleta.
Can't get over how fast and/or slow time can fly!

Greater Darien Area!

Mas Alla
Molly McCumber's Peace Corps Site


Mas Alla part 2
Zach West's Peace Corps Site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zew8AMfwYs

Bullerengue with the Newbies!

We had a great Tech Week. Tech week is where all the newbies go for a whole week to put into practice all that they learned, they came here to Meteti. This is a clip of us having a good time, a little too much, with the dancers and Darien´s bullerengue dance!

Congrats to the new group, they just swore in yesterday.