Carnaval

I don´t need to get into details about the week, but it was a good time and I can definitely tell why they call it the world´s 2nd biggest. Constant crowded street parties with water tankers spraying everyone, fireworks, parades.

Anyway, now that thats over and Doug´s gone life will go back to normal. Going to get those stoves built within the next 2 weeks and then school starts up again. Ill probably end up teaching at my school twice a week. I want to talk to the teachers at two towns nearby to see if I can teach at each one for one day a week. That should keep me busy enough.


a brass band parading around Las Tablas, its called Murga. I gotta get myself in that band somehow


With the queen of Chitre

bit from The Last Juror.. theres some similarities

I stuck the gun in my pocket like a real redneck. I was delighted that the ritual was over, that I had accomplished somethign that every other male in the county had experienced by his 12th birthday..
As we were walking back through the woods, Harry Rex said from behind me, "That bleached blonde you met, Carleen."
"Yea," I said, suddenly nervous.
"She likes you."
Carleen had lived at least 40 very hard years. I could think of nothing to say.
"She's always good for a hop in the sack."
I doubted if Carleen had missed too many sacks in Ford County. "No thanks," I said. "I got a girl in Memphis"
"So? A girl here, a girl there. What's the big difference?"

The goat had a distinctive taste; not good, but , after the chitlins, not nearly as bad as I had feared. It was tough and smothered in sticky bbq sauce, which I suspected was applied in generous layers to counter the taste of the meat. I toyed with a slice of it and washed it down with beer.. The moonshine had made the rounds for awhile and some of the guests were dancing above the pond. Harry Rex sat nearby, telling everyone how effective Id been shooting squirrels and rabbits. His talent for storytelling was remarkable.
I was an oddity but every effort was made to include me. Driving the dark roads home, I asked myself the same question I posed every day. What was I doing in Ford County, Mississippi?

Superbowl.. at night

Didn't really think about it, but I'm so used to it being a day party.. watching it at night this year. and in a panamanian casino with $3 pitchers

So whats going on? With the money we've raised (bingo/movies/raffles), plus some grant money I got, we have enough to build the stoves.. so I'll get on that after carnaval. Doug's coming out in a few days for "the world's 2nd biggest carnaval behind rio". I'll be in the azuero, either Chitre or Las Tablas or both.

panama beats me again