Thursday, October 15, 2009

Sims 2 University .exe

Last days in Panama ...


We are in Chile ... and it was time to change of scenery! A few days and stayed in Panama for all!
These last 2 weeks in Panama, we have passed through the mountains, the City and La Casita Rosa.
spent a weekend fun with 2 half-Panamanian: Carla, French, and Alexei, Russian. Both friends of Antoine's cousin, Roberto. With them were in a place called El Valle is located in the crater of a volcano explosion 5,000 years ago more or less. And indeed, it's like a leafy valley on top of a mountain and surrounded by even higher mountains.
The Valley is full of waterfalls, hiking, bathing ... but in the end we opted for a genuine and incredible horse riding, and good food and a little music between DRAMs. The horse ride hard like 3 hours and it was hilarious! We started trying to pass each meet the horses ... mine was a vague impressive of these, if not at the front on a horseshoe does not move! I spent the entire trip trying to jog the modus propis but ... nothing! The Roberto, however was the most obedient and independent of all was cool galore! Well calm down and began the trip ... the weather was being good and us as well ... but as usual in these tropical countries is a small daily dose of tropical rain and it was not long in coming and in a full-blown storm . Not even an hour had passed and we were totally poplars. But ... the shoes totally made us plop-plop top the horse ... and the rain will begin to encourage and back was almost at a gallop! Best of all were the last minutes before arrival, we were all dead gallop of laughter, poplars and screaming non-stop! Yuhuuuu! Now, none of us quickly forget this trip ... and that ass has hurt for several days!
At night glasses of wine, drinks, music, pool and lots of laughs with Carla and Alexei, who despite just met, it was as if we had known long ago.
After this fun weekend we went back home to those who have been like our family here in Panama in the almost 2 months Ana, Daniel, Benjamin, Olivia and Cesar. We've been all week at home, which is like being at home and a Kit Kat on the journey ... that has helped us to cook a little, see some movie, Robert and Benjamin play every night to the Wii and to prepare farewell week at La Casita Rosa and also was my birthday.
La Casita Rosa is a beautiful house on an island an hour and a half from Panama. The house has everything: swimming, sunbathing area with sun loungers, barbecue, a mini little beach, hammocks and then good time! The weekend was great and very funny. We had all playing UNO, bake in the sun, drinking GinTonics, eating like seals, reading, playing with Olivia sharks y durmiendo.
Ahhhh, y cumpliendo 1 año más… el plan de estar todos allá ya era un plan perfecto para ese día así que no me esperaba nada y menos aun soplar un 2 y un 7 chulísimos (que tengo como recuerdo en la mochila) comer un super pastel de merengue de colores estilo Panamá, por cierto buenísimo, y menos aun la camiseta que me regalaron, que me la he puesto desde entonces casi todos los días!!!! GRACIAAAAS!!! La verdad es que desde el primer día lo pasamos genial con ellos y esperamos volverlos a ver muy pronto… o por aquí o en Barcelona.
Un fin de semana del que hemos vuelto todos con unos kilitos de más y las energías recargadas. But like all good times fly by, we had not noticed and we were back to the City, but this time to pack up and go to Chile where we are already preparing for new adventures.
From Panama we got real good memories of both the people and the wonderful places we have been, is a beautiful country and more than recommended. Where you can see a thousand different things from Caribbean beaches to peaceful beaches, tropical jungles from authentic bare mountains and volcanoes, from flora to fauna dream that you lose sleep, from indigenous local New Yorkers from skyscrapers to dairy type ( or thatched huts), since you removed the Malls encourage stalls that sell only socks, etc. It is a country with one foot in the U.S. and the other in the past. A country that has had a spectacular recent growth but not always driven by themselves or taking care of his own.
And no, I let the photos for you to see our recent experiences in Panama as a family.
TOO A kiss, Uschi & Roberto

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Baby Does Not Want To Cough Phlegm

Climate change is a constant in this journey. Sta Catalina

Today is a special day for bloggers like us. Today is Blog Action Day around the world through http://www.blogactionday.org/ page. This is all The bloggers write on the subject and publish the same day. We have gathered some 8000 posts in 140 different countries, of issues about politics, travel, journalism, medicine, science, culture, sports, sex, and endless more thematic. Well, today we all come together to talk about climate change.
If we do a quick review of the destinations we have chosen in our journey, you will see that all have a common factor: the negative effects of climate change. India has suffered from drought this year throughout the month of June, the strongest of the last 83 years, but that's not the worst, because all the rain that was missing was concentrated in a month in the next few days, completely inundating areas and stifle the few hopes of the peasants of the country. In Nepal, climbed Annapurna base camp and from there we saw the remains of a glacier that was huge 20 years ago and today is almost completely melted. Later we saw corn fields of the parents of the students home from school where they were dried at times and understood the meaning and importance of monsoon water in quantity and in its timeliness when arrived. In Burma, we saw about the inhumane conditions endured by victims of Cyclone Nargis, horrible scary stories that we share now. And that the cyclone was more than a year. In Panama, we have seen the terrible deforestation of the jungle man (all of us) are doing. Despite its importance to thousands of species to the man himself, the country is completely destroyed. Even in the remotest corners of the jungle we arrived, we saw the Indian cutting and spraying trees with chemicals to transport wood floating in the same rivers for drinking and living. Now we are in Chile and we have not lived in the first person anything concrete, but I've read some promising articles that speak of melting glaciers, rising sea levels and the impact is irreversible taking in the fishing industry and pollution emitted by the mining industry. From all this I am telling you we could talk for hours and give shocking facts and figures but we have reached a point where the figures no longer scare us, we know the numbers do not measure and so many horrors we see in the media than any thing is just "one more thing." How long?
We can not speak for everyone, but we can generalize about our society. We live in a world (or rather in a little bubble) that do not have time. We always go to trial. We have no time for ourselves, every day we have less room for us and it's hard to stay silent for 2 minutes reflect on what we see, read, live, etc. Moreover, we are taught to live in a highly individualistic world, the "world of self" where the most important thing in my success as an individual, my work, my mind, My House, My ipod, My favorite MI MI MI MI ... "Think of me someday planet? or as is ours and not only mine and others think?
If anything we are learning on this trip is that 6,000 million people live on the same planet we share, for better and for worse (I have given a figure and that he did not want to do!). And this is the same planet as the next generation will inherit. For the climate, there are no borders, no country or race or social status or anything. Climate change and its consequences affect us all. One of the Buddhist principles we learned in Nepal is the interdependence of things. Each of our actions, each of our words and even all our thoughts have consequences in others. As each case has many effects almost everything that happens is interconnected and dependent on other things. Our actions, thoughts, words, create an effect on others and the reactions of others have an effect on us in an endless chain where all links are interdependent. What I mean by this? For each of us must be aware of what important that we as individuals because we have tremendous power over everything that surrounds us.
From our point of view, the first and most important step for all this begins to change is that we are aware of what is happening. The next step is to act. The first step depends only on oneself. We forget at times of our day to day and find time to think and reflect about what is happening around us. It is clear that although we are bombarded with catastrophic news and endless documentaries on this subject, and for many bloggers to get together to address this issue, if not spent time thinking about all this, the situation never change. If we can be a little more aware and out of the bubble in which we live, the next step comes alone. ACT! We can act a billion different ways. For us the most important is our behavior in day to day when consuming energy resources, when to buy what they "need" to live and when recycled, and all those little things and events multiplied by all because we have brutal effects. There are thousands of organizations that inform us daily of what is happening we can make donations or volunteer work or support initiatives. Everyone should try to do what is in our hands to try to slow down a little this. Luckily there are a wide range to suit all tastes. AND YES, little to do ALL COUNTS! Well
family, friends, readers, bloggers .... I hope not to bore you with these issues. For this to be a bit of success I would appreciate you to do a comment on this post. I do not intend to open a discussion or a forum, but if you appreciate a little comment or criticism or what you may believe appropriate. Remember that is the option of making anonymous comments.
Meanwhile, I copied a quote from Robert F. Kennedy's very interesting that we think can help us to reflect: "Few will have the greatness to alter history, but each of us We can work to change a fraction of events, and the sum of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is through many anonymous acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and care, these waves build a current that can sweep the strongest walls of oppression and resistance. "
You can also go to this post we published some time ago that you could help us reflection.
Thank you all for reading and encourage you with these comments! Besos
very strong Chilean land! Uschi and Robert

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Wording For Lohri Invitation Card

: sun, waves and many beers

After a few days "at home" recovering from our adventures Darien, we decided to spend some days in Sta Catalina, with the intention of surfing, diving and spend a few days without leaving too little calm, still assimilating all the adventures that we are living. Santa Catalina is a place known for its waves, where many surfers, both local and many other countries come to surf this wave, considered the best of Panama. On arrival we settle into a waterfront cabins, a very quiet, nice, green, and once again have that feeling of having found a perfect little place to spend a few days.
The first day we met Sigor, a boy from Bilbao was Uschi professional surfing. The very first thing we did was catch a few tables for uschi professional and ducks to water! That divertiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidoooooo. Here are several places to surf, but we only have got in estuary beach waves, which are tiny and facilitate other sites because they fear the size and rocks there. Uschi ten minutes of class and stood in all the waves! Had a smile that will not fit in the face! I started to laugh because every time I stood on the table and I looked at the teacher wanted on the water to see if he was watching while I was screaming yuuuuhuuuuuu. Meanwhile I was going to wave a little further back, and started with my classic romps and smacks with the waves. I spend absolutely every day on the water and a little less but uschi too. Water always came with a very big smile! Just the two coming to our cabin completely shattered and exhausted. This short week promises! Of course, the marks and wounds have surfers are tremendous!
in Sta Catalina, there is no shops, no coverage or cash, or facilities of any kind and very few tourists because we are in low season. Despite having little motion, as we do not know but we always cross paths with lovely people and so we met Jimy, Morena and her daughter Jade and Kristen and Jenna. We have done small group of little beach and we had almost every day taking beers or dinner out there or doing some fun plan, such as organizing a trip to Coiba Island, which was so spectacular that Uschi tell you what the next post, because here see that there is not much to tell ... Oh yeah! We went out at night for the first time on the trip! Yes ... we went to a party and we lasted until 12:30 of the night!
Jajajja Well, do not get bored with it more, I leave HERE some pictures of the place and us trying to surf. Read the next post (The Coiba) which is much more interesting than this!
Thanks for reading us and continue to travel with us! Uschi and Robert