Luz just told us that Michelle, her daughter whom we’re helping, had the best grade point average in her class over the last semester–which is her last in primary school. It’s customary in Panamá that the student with the best grade point average at this point becomes a teacher–maestra–for a day! So, Michelle did her [...]
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Here are links to two interesting newspaper articles I found yesterday, one on the interactions between Panamá and Venezuela recently,from Eric Jackson’s The Panama News, and the other, about Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean President, from The New York Times; I ran into the latter accidentally while looking for news about the first game of the World Series. [...]
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As I posted in a comment to Trish Christofferson, we had our 3rd meeting of the Reading Program yesterday. It started to pour–a real aguacero–about a half hour before, and I really wondered if anyone would show up. But when Nedelka and I got to the library (we picked up Enilda on the way), kids [...]
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