Panamania!

Hi friends!
I´ve been in Panama for 11 days now and I´ve already done so much! It´s crazy, but I´m definitely loving my time here. This has been my first time with intenet acess since I´ve left the Peace Corps office in Panama City- so sorry for the delay in updating.  Currently, myself and the other 20 environmental volunteers are living in Rio Congo.  It's such a cute little town where everyone seems to know each other about an hour outside Panama City. Here we are doing our technical training and language training basically from 8-5 everyday.  I´m so pumped to improve in my spanish and start learning about what we will be doing on our sites.  Right now we have mostly been learning the type of sustainable and grassroots development practices that we will be doing for the next 2 years. Everything I´ve learned so far has been great and really  applicable.  During the first few days in Panama all the Trainees went to visit a current PCV at her site and we got to experience a little what her life is like in her town.  This coming Thursday all the trainees are going to a current PCV´s site by themselves for a 4 days.  I´m going to the Muna district in the Camarca Ngöbe-Buglé region- I can´t wait.

My host family is really great! I have 2 brothers and 1 sister who I share a room with, and they are so sweet.  My mom and Dad are also so nice and patient with my spanish.  We have a great front and backyard full of chickens and tropical trees. My parents have told me there have 2 little monleys living out there too! I have about a 10 minute walk into town everyday-which is really nice.  I'm learning to love cold bucket showers, especially on the hot panamanian days,and getting myself used to the daily hot dog for breakfast. 

I´m running out of time, so I should go. If you need to contact me, feel free to send emails and for the next 9 weeksmy address will be¨

Cuerpo de Paz, Edificio 104 1er
Kayla Howard-Anderson
Piso, Avenida Vicente Bonilla
Ciudad del Saber, Clayton
Panama Rep. de Panama

Miss you all! 

I'm Peace-ing out!

It's finally here! I landed in Virginia a few hours ago where I will officially start my Peace Corps training tomorrow.  I'll only be here until the 18th, then it's straight to Panama to start my Peace Corps adventure.

I don't know how often I will have internet access, but I will update this blog when I can as an online journal for myself, as well as to keep everyone informed on what I am doing (as soon as I figure out what that is).

Please feel free to share this with anyone and keep in touch through email (khowardanderson@gmail.com)
I would love to hear from you all!  Thanks for reading.

Paz, amor, y dios
Kayla