Work update

The training went super well. It was all interactive and new information, so everyone was really attentive and participating and happy for it. Our boss kept saying he was shocked that no one was falling asleep as is often the case with our training when they invite trainers (other volunteers) to help out and they are unprepared and just rehash all the same info in a ¨discussion¨. So we did good. :) I´ll be doing a teacher training with teachers from all of Coclé, maybe others in February (tHE ANAM director forCoclé heard about the training I did and wants me to bef up their training.)

And in early Dec (10 and 11) I´ll be in Panama on a training of the trainers for PML (project management and leadersçhip). Then in January and maybe later too i´ll be training pairs of volunteers with their community counterparts. It keeps me busy as the principal at my school hates me and makes me feel unwelcome there. If he only knew what he was missing. lol

Over the river and through the woods

Craziness... I crossed out of Kaylas community on Thursday night in the last chiva out. Well in the morning on Friday, a MOP (Ministry of Public Works) truck went across carrying gravel to fix the road... and the whole bridge came down! THe bridge just split in half like a V into the creek below and the truck rolled down with it. No one was hurt, but Kayla will be walking for at least a couple of months... and her stores in town probably won´t be restocked until then too. Crazy, huh? It´s been on the news every night since (the first day she was interviewed too) in the section of news that they go through all the problems in Panama that the government has yet to act upon. I think her community feels really forgotten about since they´ve been asking for a new bridge forever and will still have to wait a long time even now that they don´t have any bridge. Oh Panama!