Love our new Sunday School Class. Our teacher reminds me of Dean, quite the Biblical scholar. We just keep our mouths shut to not show our comparative lack of Biblical knowledge, but love listening to those that do know a lot.
This afternoon we were invited to our very first Panamanian barbeque. Great time with lots of fabulous food from the grill, very friendly people, kids running all over the place and loud conversations. There was only one other “gringo” besides ourselves, although several people could speak English quite well. Again, just listening to their stories about Panama was just way too interesting. From what we have heard and read, Panamanians love to party and find almost any reason to celebrate. One gentleman told us of a huge party in the city where they had to close the streets off and people were going crazy. The reason? Panama had just barely lost to the USA team in a soccer game. Heaven only knows what the celebration would have been like had they won.
Went to a new area of Panama yesterday and wandered around. There was a major six lane street in front of a large group of stores with crazy crazy traffic and we wanted to get across those six lanes to explore what was on the other side. But we decided that the way people drive in this country and that there was no nearby crosswalk with a stoplight, it would be suicide. Anyway, while we were standing there and pondering what to do, we saw a young woman carrying a baby cautiously walk right into the street and the cars, taxis, buses all stopped. Then, there were others that also walked right into the traffic and everybody stopped. So we tried it. It does work. The people stop. No horns honking or anything.
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