April and Kevin in Kuna Yala, the northeast coast of Panamá
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April and Kevin in Kuna Yala, the northeast coast of Panamá
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April and Kevin will be serving in Peace Corps Panama from May 2007 - July 2009.
We intend to post updates on our PC experiences to this blog page at least monthly. Close family and friends will also be able to add updates as they hear news.
Directions on how to send mail to April & Kevin are at the bottom of the blog.
We intend to post updates on our PC experiences to this blog page at least monthly. Close family and friends will also be able to add updates as they hear news.
Directions on how to send mail to April & Kevin are at the bottom of the blog.
Who is reading?
Related Links:
- Peace Corps - official site
- Peace Corps Panama page
- Peace Corps Family & Friends page
- Friends of Peace Corps Panama
- Peace Corps Tshirts, mugs, etc at CafePress
- Third Goal - a Peace Corps Community Blog
- Other Peace Corps Blogs/Journals
- National Peace Corps Association site (for RPCV)
- Peace Corps Online - Links to articles mentioning the Peace Corps
- Live Panama Canal views
- El Siglo (The Century) - Panama newspaper
- Panama America - Panama newspaper
- Prensa - Panama newspaper
- CIA Fact book - Panama facts
- Latin World
- USA State Dept
- Country Website- look up any country govt page
Books We've Read (with Ratings)
- Digital Fortress, Dan Brown (A5 K6)
- Profiles in Courage for our Time, ed. Caroline Kennedy (Anr K6)
- The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum (Anr K6)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (A8 K7)
- Looking Backward, Edward Bellemy (Anr K7)
- Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel (A6 K6) watch the movie or read the book, don't bother with both, they're that similar
- State of Fear, Michael Crichton (A5 K4)
- Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama (Anr K8)
- Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right, Ann Coulter (Anr K6)
- John Adams, David McCullough (Anr K8)
- Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (A8 K7)
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Apr K5)
- Philosophy of Sustainable Design, Jason F MccLennan (Anr K6)
- The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kid (A7 Knr)
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham (A5 Knr) maybe the movie was better
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frasier (A9 Knr)
- Picture Perfect, Jodi Picoult (A7 Knr)
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (A9 Knr)
- Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult (A7 Knr)
- 19 Minutes, Jodi Picoult (A6 Knr)
- Faithless, Karin Slaughter (A7 Knr)
- The Snow Fox, Susan Fromberg Schaffer (A9 Knr)
- Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner (A6 Knr)
- Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber (A6 Knr)
- The Pilots Wife, Anna Shrive (A5 Knr)
- Body Surfing, Anna Shrive (A7 Knr)
- A Glimpse of Nothingness, Janwillem van de Wetering (A9 Knr)
- The Tender Bar, JR Moehringer (A7 Knr)
- Lovely Bones, Alice Siebold (A8 Knr)
- The House on Dream Street, Dana Sachs (A8 Knr)
- The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak (A8 Knr)
- Going all the Way, Dan Wakefield (A3 Knr)
- Body in the Library, Agatha Christy (A7 Knr)
- Dead Run, PJ Tracy (A7 Knr)
- Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger (A6 Knr)
- Half Mammals of Dixie, George Singleton (A8 Knr)
- Live Bait, PJ Tracy (A7 Knr)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (A5 Knr)
- Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Ladin (A7 K7)
- Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (A7 K7)
- Enders Game, Orson Scott Card (A9 K9) Still awesome
- Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux, RPCV (A6 Knr)
- Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquirel (A8 Knr)
- Small Island, Andrea Levy (A8 Knr)
- Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto ¨Che¨ Guevera (A6 Knr) movie is as good or better
- 1776, David McCullough (A6 K7) should have read the dust cover: only about the army, not the political process / Dec. of Ind.
- Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco (A7 Knr)
- Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (A4/7 K7) second half way better than architecture history lecture of first half
- I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb (A8 Knr)
- Black Order, James Rollins (A4 Knr)
- Selkirk´s Island, Diana Southam (A5 Knr)
- Don't Know Much About Geography, Kenneth C Davis (Anr K2) A book on geography with no real maps???
- Adrift - 76 Days Lost at Sea, Stephen Callahan (A7 K7)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire (A6 K5) Cinderella from the guy who wrote Wicked, had success, and now only re-tells fairy tales
- The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama (Anr K7) better written than expected, more human than politician
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (A9 K8)
- Angels & Demons, Dan Brown (A5 K7) prob. better than DaVinci Code
- Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Henry Petroski (Anr K6)
- The Floating Admiral, Agatha Christie and the Dectection Club (A4 Knr)
- Monkeywrench, PJ Tracy (A6 Knr)
- Hungry Ocean, Linda Greenlaw (A6 Knr) that woman pilot in the Perfect Storm
- Cesar's Way, Cesar Milan (A6 Knr) GEB puppy raisers already know most of it
- The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart (A9 K8)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel; Jared Diamond (A8 K8) very interesting, but edit it again, very repetative, could be 100+ pages shorter
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt (A7 Knr) non-fiction that reads like fiction
- Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (A5 K4) where is Igor??? Why is this a classic?
- Message in a Bottle, ? (A4 Knr) (when 15 PCVs read two pages and put it down, there is a reason)
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (A8 K7)
- Dune, Frank Herbert (A7 K7)
- The Red Tent, Annita Dionant (A7 Knr)
- Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain (A6 Knr)
- Duchess, ? (A8 Knr) (Good historical fiction)
- Flu, Gina Kolata (A7 K6)
- The Pilots Wife, ? (A4 Knr)
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (A6 Knr)
- Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen (A6 Knr)
- The Alienist, Caleb Carr (A5 Knr)
- Steel My Soldiers Hearts, ? (A5 Knr)
- Shadow of the Wind, ? (A6 Knr)
- Mistress of Spices, ? (A6 Knr)
- The Lonesome Gods, Louis L'Amour (A4 Knr)
- Skinny Dip, ? (A3 Knr)
- Music and Silence, ? (A5 Knr)
- Mamoth Stone, ? (A3 Knr)
- Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson (A6 K5)
- Memiors of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (A8 K7) (both our sisters sent a copy for April's birthday)
- Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore (A8 K8) (fast read, easy to process information, lots of pictures/graphs, not as doomsday as anticipated)
- Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes (A4 K4) (see the movie instead; the book just makes you hungry for food and a plot)
- Getting Stoned with Savages, J Maarten Troost (A6 K6) (life after two years on a tropical island)
- The Johnston Flood, David McCullough (A7 K7)
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins (A6 K7) (Very Interesting, Scary Read)
- Inside the US Embassy, none (Anr K5) (descriptions of jobs, experiences, etc)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rawling (A9 K9)
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (A8 K8)
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hasseini (A9 K8)
- The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff (A6 K6)
- Don't Kill the Cow too Quick, Malcolm Henderson (A4 K5) (about Panamá, which was good for +1 or 2)
- Midwives, Chris Bohjalian (A7 K8)
- Living on the Edge, Peace Corps authors (A5 K4)
- American Dreams, Dan Rather (A4 K3) BAD
- Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (A8 K8)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (A7 K7) Each word of the title is true at some point, but not in proportion
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, JK Rawling (A8 K8)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rawling (A7 K8)
Panama map
Disclaimer:
The contents of this blog are the personal thoughts and feelings of April & Kevin Cropper. The infomation given here does not necessarily reflect any postion of the governments of the U.S. or Panama, or of the Peace Corps.
For our personal safety, and the safety of other volunteers serving with us; we have been asked not to post precise location information on our service site communities.
All rights for the use of blog text and photographs are reserved by April and Kevin Cropper unless otherwise noted. Use of text and photos without permission is prohibited. Hey, we will likely give you permission...just ask!!!
For our personal safety, and the safety of other volunteers serving with us; we have been asked not to post precise location information on our service site communities.
All rights for the use of blog text and photographs are reserved by April and Kevin Cropper unless otherwise noted. Use of text and photos without permission is prohibited. Hey, we will likely give you permission...just ask!!!
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