Just to name a few...

Some interesting experiences here in Panama:
-Went spear fishing with Embera Indians
-Witnessed an active volcano
-Ziplined through the rainforest
-Swam in the Caribbean
-Watched Kuna children play with a dead chicken inside a hut where hammocks hung and a fire burned
-Danced under a house on stilts
-Snorkeled in the coral reef and touched a wild crab
-Seen a monkey, toucan, and iguana in its natural habitat
-Studied the bible with non-believers
-We drank the water… and paid for it…
-…Were attached to an IV in a hospital without electricity and running water and were administered drugs by a nurse without a bra
-Trekked through the Darien (and survived)…
-…Protected by armed Policemen against Columbian gorilla warefare fighters in the jungle
-Watched a movie under the stars on a hammock
-Celebrated New Years in a different country
-Crossed a river 7 times while leaving a small village in the mountains (on horseback!)
-Visited islands in the Pacific and Atlantic ocean
-Seen the Panama Canal
-Been to an all natural mud and hot springs spa in the mountains
-Swam under a mountain/jungle waterfall
-Fainted in front of a crowd
-Had an Embera child’s monkey on my shoulder
-Had a “riot day” off of school
-Spent an entire day riding bikes through the mountains
-Use an “outhouse” with a million cockroaches crawling all over the floor and walls (if that’s not bravery than I don’t know what is!!!)
-Spent nights listening to live Salsa music and feeling the breeze off the canal
-Spent weekends on the island of flowers
-Rode in a taxi with a man with a machete in the dashboard (ok, it was just a really large knife)
-Had an indigenous Indian woman put a homemade bracelet on my wrist
-Watched an entire movie in Spanish with no subtitles… and actually followed it!
-Took a dance class with a woman wearing spandex under her bathing suit
-Awaken by numerous teenagers staring at you while you slept
-Saw the ruins of old Caribbean Pirate defense weapons
-Stayed in a room with pads plastered on the wall as decor
-Fed gato solos with our bare hands
-Managed over 50 Spanish speaking children in VBS
-Went to the oldest church in the western hemisphere
-Ate at a restaurant with a tree growing through it
-Went on a Toucan hunt
-Slept in a room with no floors
-Ate rice pudding to celebrate a baby's first tooth
-Drank sugar water to cure mosquito bites
-Ate soup with bones and corn on the cob in it, while people watched you eat it.
-Helped build a foundation of a church
-Sang songs under the brilliant countryside stars for three hours straight
-Learned to make fried green bananas