I AM IN PANAMA OMG

Here I am!
Heck yes.
So this morning me and the two other girls heading to Panama said goodbye to the other AFS USA kids and got ready to board our plane. We sat around for a long time, constantly worrying we'd missed some important information, and located another AFS kid, Gisli. Gisli is from Iceland and he, too, was on his way to Panama and we talked with him for a long time. He's very tall, very blond, very blue-eyed.
The plane ride was long (well, like two and a half hours) and hot and uncomfortable, as usual.
Then we arrived.
Immigracion is SUPER confusing when you don't speak that much espanol and the lady at the desk is trying to break down the words for you and you're like "umm... estudiante... seis ... months... um... hablo solo un poquito de espanol! Gracias!" but I made it... Apparently we all have to go back there on Monday to get our actual Visas to stay here. After Monday we'll get to go to our host families and start the real deal, I guess.

We're staying in an old house with new facilities, in some other girls' room. There is a large television in our room that we are currently watching "SuperNanny" on... in English. Hellz yeah.

So far, Panama is beautiful. I love it, in all its humidity. I think it smells like PopRocks, but the other two girls just give me funny looks when I say that. I dunno.

We saw some crazy critter when we went for a quick walk up the street:
We think that it might be a paca (conejo pintado), but we don't really know.

So: I am alive, I'm in Panama, it's hot, it's amazing, it smells like Poprocks.

peace, mates. :)

More pictures up on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlesister4/