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hey Hey HEY! Lila and Hannah here, reporting live from Cerro Punta!! Yesterday we took the long trek (6 hours on the bus!) all the way from Pedasí to the cloud forrest (Lila thinks forest is spelled like that. I … Continue reading →

Hola from Panama! Today was our second and final day working at the school garden in Paritilla. The first day was Tuesday where we helped to weed the garden and prepare the soil for planting seeds. It was hot, it … Continue reading →

Hola, this is Max, Josh, and Lucas. Yesterday, we went to Iguana Island, or, La Isla Iguana, with Jayson’s host father, Capitán Negro, who is a fisherman in Pedasí. He took us to his boat docked at la playa Arenal, … Continue reading →

Hola, friends and family, this is Casey. We started off today by making tembleques–traditional beaded hair accessories with the help of a local artist.  We were taught how to use beads and wires to form a butterfly for us to … Continue reading →

Having spent the past two weeks at ITEC and the Cloud Forest in Cerro Punta, where most of our time was spent with each other as a group and removed from the outside world, living with our brand new host … Continue reading →

Greetings from the cabin 6 squad! We are all currently in Cerro Punta, about 7,000 feet above sea level. To get here we took a bus from Almirante, Bocas del Toro. En route, we popped a tire, and spent some … Continue reading →