Panama
Jumping High – recurring dream
Ever since I started skating, when I was an adolescent, I always had this dream that I could make the craziest tricks when I would jump using my skates. It felt as if my jumps lasted so long that I would gain consciousness of those instants and would allow me enough freedom to move as I pleased. So being conscious of this ability, I jumped, spinned, did flips without the fear of falling in the ground and hurting myself. During the dreams I would perform several jumps consciously in locations that I frequent in the real world.
Now I am older and have stopped skating. But in one than more occasion I have had this dream where I can perform jumps similar to those I had during my skating days, this time, without my skates. One day I dreamed that I was in a highway, in a section that looks a lot like the section between Divisa and Penonome, with long straight roads dissected by rivers and with green trees on the sides of the road. This dream took place in a highway section nearby a river, and in the middle of the road, there were long vessels made out of woven straws, just like the peruvian “caballitos de totora” except that these where really long and very flexible. Read the rest of this entry »
Raining in Paradize
Around 5:30 a.m. we took off from Peter’s house towards the Panamanian Paradise called San Blas by the Spaniard, or Kuna Yala by their righteous indigenous owners. By car we left the city and we got to the protected indigenous territory, with the sun rising on our right side, and the marvelous hills covered by dense tropical forest. Sporadically tucan birds would fly on our side, accompanied by curious monkeys that would get their morning snack from the leafy trees.
Ostriches chasing humans in Panama! (or maybe not)
Beware, ostriches!!!! Here I give you another jewel from the past. Check out the wild life from Capira, Panama. Enjoy =)
Vida Salvaje en Panamá: Nativos panameños son perseguidos por avestruces (o tal vez no).
Wild Life in Panama: Native Panamanians being chased by ostriches! (or maybe not)
This is the first video on Drivenet’s Quasi-Suspense Series.
The pope, monkeys and mating felines…
I woke up very tired. Slowly thoughts came back to my head increasing like a tidal wave.
I was sitting at the time and frequency lab at home. All my lab mates were there sitting in high school chairs making a circle. Pope Benedict was sitting there as well, with his white gown all the way to the RIGHT side. He stood up and handed us fliers so that we could choose the meal we were going to have later.
I felt I really needed to take a shower so I crossed to a building to the left of Read the rest of this entry »
La Fabrika de Panamá – July 10, 2008
Ok, it is finally happening: I am writing on my blog again! After a few weeks without blogging activity, I finally made it back to Atlanta, so it’s about time to catch up with the writing. So I guess I will be recounting the interesting things I saw in Panama during my visit, starting with la Fabrika de Panama, arts event at the White Elephant Building in the Santo Tomas Hospital (Panama city Panama).
La Fabrika de Panama (Arts event in Panama City, Panama)
For those who have heard (and for those who haven’t) there is going to be a very interesting Urban Arts/Music Fund Raiser event for “Hospital Santo Tomás” (Public Hospital) in Panama city, Panamá. So if you are around, you might want to check Read the rest of this entry »
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