Click for Photos of UTN and more: UTN (Unversidad Tecnica Nacional)
This is our last day in Atenas. I’m going to the airport shortly to pick up Carra Cheslin. We’re excited to have Carra join us as a teaching intern and group leader. She’s made arrangements with her professors at Connecticut College, so that she can part of the course.
Juan and Amber are making many arrangements for our final day, including the “despidida.” or farewell and thank you party. Our visit to UTN went very well. The person who gave us a lecture on waste management and recycling was a homestay father of one of our students in 2009. He spoke slowly and clearly, and he good visuals. He was a good speaker and engager. After the lecture we toured UTN’s animal husbandry projects. We saw goats, sheep, cows, crocodiles, iguanas, composting, and biogas generation. It was great. Students will regroup for final classes, graduation, and then the despidida. It’s looking like our Internet capabilities will be very limited in Panama. Wireless Internet has not matured as promoted by companies in Panama. While there is an outside chance we might have some limited Internet. we likely will have to go into town (an hour away) to use the internet or upload photos. We are looking at various strategies for posting, but it will much more limited. Nonetheless, students will be able to call home. We will have cell phones that students can use with a prepaid phone card. I will post more about communication, including phone numbers on separate page that you can access on the website header.