Ok, the more detailed amazing blog. Here it comes! :D

I've decided to make categories, there's kind of a bunch of things to talk about. School, family, trips, and little things..

School; better than last year. Knowing more spanish helps TREMENDOUSLY! Not only understanding the classes but also being able to communicate with my classmates and make new friends, which is sort of the point of an exchange year, right? ALSO, now that I've lived in Chepo for about six months I've had time to establish my life here in Panama. Having relations and knowing families is so helpful when meeting new people, it's so much easy for them to accept you if you know their family and friends a lot of the time. Even though most of the time I don't think I'm really learning much in school, at least I feel like I'm excercing my brain.

My family situation, it's complicated... OK, so when I changed families about a month ago I was temporarily staying in the house of our AFS volunteer, Sylvia. Sylvia is the host mom of my friend Stephan from Switzerland. When the family that I was meant to go to decided not to have an exchange student, Sylvia thought that since there are only four or so months more, I could just stay with her for the remainder of my year. So now, I live with Sylvia and Stephan. Stephan and I share a small room, which I'll show in the picture below after the blog. It's really nice having a roomate sometimes that actually understands me more than a Panamanian, and he's my best friend, so that helps! :) My family is so good, we always have chores to do, which I don't mind at all, it's normal, and our privacy is completely understood, which is REFRESHING. There are so many people which live in my house now, which is nice, there's always somebody home which I can hangout with, but if I want my privacy I just go in my room and close the door.

I haven't really gone on many trips, but so far I've been to a few places; Boquete, Cerro punta, mostly all in Chiriqui, Gorgona beach, Las Olas beach, Casco Viejo in Panama City, mostly all in Panama city, Chepo (obviously, I live here), Portabello in Colon and that's about all. Hopefully I'll put on a map below and you'll be able to find the places I've been! I'm going to Chiriqui again tonight which is really exciting, it might be my favorite place in Panama. When I used to live in Chiriqui it was normal, but now going back I wonder why I didn't enjoy it more.

WHAT ELSE?? I have no idea, I feel like they're definitely more things but at the moment me olvido/I forget. Oh! Stephan and I cooked a super panamanian dinner tonight. We had rice, chicken with tomatoe sauce, and fried bananas. One other little thing; I've learned how to dance Bachata, Meringue, Soca, Salsa, and Passa Passa. Look 'em up. :)

Ok, bye for now!