My Best Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KGQNlkpy0&feature=youtu.be

This is my little Panamanian companion Dimarys. I can honestly say that she is the closest thing to a kid sister to me and I'm gonna miss her without a doubt.

PS. This girl had no idea how to even hold the guitar a year ago and now look at her! I spend a lot of my time jamming with my neighbors, students and friends. Its actually really fun and theraputic!

Translating Medical Missions Feb 2012

It's worth your time to learn another language because....




The following video portrays footage from some of the translation work that peace corps volunteers might find themselves doing periodically throughout their two year commitment. This group is the Church of Christ. They have been in the Darien area for at least 15-20 years (i dont remember exactly). The doctors come on their own tab and volunteer their time for about a week. This particular mission offers doctor checkups, prostate checks, pap smears, dentist checks as well as medicinal resource support free of charge to rural darienitas.

Very inspiring people.



http://youtu.be/xFXi6UOFLzA

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!