Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Emily Blackwelder y Hadleigh Leclair, Glimpsers
Buenas Tipos (What’s up Dudes)! Hadleigh and Em here 🙂 Due to a late-night jam sesh yesterday, we’re writing yesterdays’ blog today. We started our day off pretty early as we began our day of Working Like a Local. For this day, we traveled to Elilin’s home, a “guru”...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Michelle Yin y Jess Valerio, Glimpsers
Heyyyy y’all, it’s Michelle and Jessica back to give a brief update about this eye-opening day! We started off the day by waking up a bit later than usual, at 7:30 in the morning. Speeding forward we had a quick bus ride to NutreHogar, where our journey of...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Addie Rogers y Sebastian Abend, Glimpsers
BLOG! BLOG! BLOOOOG! blog time. Hey everyone! Sebaddie (Sebastian and Addie) here reporting live from the Piamonte hotel in Las Tablas. This has been quite an eventful day. Starting bright and early (7AM to be precise), we made our way down to what we believed to be a...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Alex Valerio y Cameron Rice, Glimpsers
“Is everything forbidden to us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars, under development is not one of god’s mysterious designs” -Eduardo Galeano Today we visited the town of Paritilla that consists of only about 800 people. Throughout our...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Remy Fernández-O'Brien and Nathan Ghiorso, GG Leader and Program Coordinator
Quote of the Day: “Culture is what remains after losing what was learned.” Question of the Day: Why is it important in Panama to make culture last? In our first full day in Las Tablas, the Glimpsers learned more about the history and culture of this small but...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Remy Fernandez y Nathan Ghiorso, Global Glimpse Leader and Program Coordinator
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” – C. Wright Mills After an earrrrrrrly wake up call at 7:00am, the TA1D travelers took their breakfast on the bus and headed to Casco Viejo/Casco Antiguo...
Posted in TA1D Las Tablas 8-8-2019 by Nathan Ghiorso, Program Coordinator
We are safe and sound (and sweaty) here in Panama City, Panama. We are resting up (and hydrating!) for our walking tour of Casco Viejo tomorrow morning, followed by our trek to Las Tablas! There, we will explore the pueblo and settle into our home for the next two...
