August 2011
5 posts
what is kristina doing in panama??
Let me explain. Glenn Adelson, director of the Environmental Studies Program at Lake Forest College, has sent me here on a mission. My task was to meet up with Chris Del Vecchio, a beautiful graduate from Brandeis University (with her Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Studies), and help her out with a project she is working on. What she is doing out here is really great, its more or less an...
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El Valle de Antón
My first weekend in Panama and I’m already off to a vacation resort! Simon and Chris and I drove out about and hour and a half to have lunch with some of their friends, Tony Coats- a professor of geology at GW University (and natural genius)- and his charming wife Laur. After lunch we drove back to the resort where Tony and Laur were staying and checked out a couple rooms for ourselves...
Casco Viejo
Arrived in Panama City, Panama today, after a 7 hour flight from Chicago. Still in the same time zone but the feeling is much different. After finally meeting with the lovely Chris (short for Christine), I made my way back to Casco Viejo- Spanish for Old Town- and was led by my tour guide around the small but quaint city. It is interesting here because there is quite a mixture of wealthy...
