1. Living Third World Style
FOR THE MOST component , I AM AN EASY man TO PLEASE. Give me nice warm weather along
with a box of original Ritz crackers and i am generally happy. Whenever you bring monkeys into the
picture, I'm in heaven. Panama pleasantly surprised me when I first got down here however long ago.
Panama City is fairly modern in that it's got lots of tall buildings and a pretty durable banking center,
but it is the men on horses and roadside meat shacks simply outside the city, which read hilariously
out-of-date. In a sense, this comparison , this juxtaposition of old and new , of tradition as well as
contemporariness is what retains me on my personal toes.
Because the us military occupied panama for so long, we now have way more chain restaurants than
most countries in Central America. We now have Quizno's, Burger King, as well as my personal
favorite, Wendy's where I can continue my personal ongoing french-fry research as to whether or not
there really is a difference between the actual medium and biggie portions. Most of these fast-food
joints will deliver to your house, via little noisy motorbikes. You'd think this kind of service would
nourish the country's lazy, couch potato demographic but Panamanians, for the most part , are not
fat.
Mistake: Arriving in panama in September without a rain jacket. The elements here is hard to
complain about though: about 80 year-round. RAin lasts a good five months, during which you can
expect a torrential rain storm every few days. It is during this season which I've come to experience
new levels of rainfall , new intensities of rain that prior to I never knew existed. Just yesterday, for
example , it was raining so difficult that this gushing rivulet of rainwater raised some kid's perform
truck--the kind by having an orange body as well as yellow roof--and drifted it all the way down to Via
Argentina.
During rain storms, i come up with lyrics. If you weren't aware, i'm a bit of a underground hip hop
artist, and sometimes , I like to use my personal articles as marketing vehicles for this talent. Here are
a few lines i threw together about Panama:
"yeah I like to go out to beaches
Las Palmas, you realize.
Cheaters envy basically want to get grimey wit' it down in Coronado
Coral hotel in San Blas
And when I get there , I just sit back as well as chill."
The security standard here is fairly high, though it is the occasional murder or even robbery that
simply reminds me of that all-too-cliché style of 'living within the third world'. I've been robbed and
really , it's not all that poor : In fact, I say if you can't beat em, sign up for em. To a lot of people ,
living in a big city with petty crime is a bad thing, but to me there could be no better place to practice
some stealing of my own. I mostly do pick pocketing and I dabble in dog-napping. In the structure of
criminals, pickpockets like me are like at the bottom , one above mail box burglars and the guys who
steal pies from windowsills.
In all seriousness though , the cops are pretty friendly as well as good to expats like myself. It's a city

2. though, and with city life you receive crime. Nothing is too extreme, and to give you an idea, we feel
much more comfortable here than all of us do in wa D.C. Costa rica has gotten a embarrassing rap
for prostitution and some of that pertains to Panama too. A lot of men explore that world and though
they'll by no means tell their companion , a fair amount cheat on their spouses. This really is kinda
like asking a mime who his favorite performer is: you know he has one, but he will never tell you their
own name.
There's an old saying that goes something like this: give a guy a fish, he eats fish for each day. Give
a man a fishing pole and he will catch tuna seafood that same day. The actual fishing down here is
really pretty magnificent , rivaling that of mexico. We have what is considered to be "the best fishing
hotel in the world" down within the Darien jungle. All of us also have what I say is the best shortcut
within the world--the Panama Canal--which is a little bit more than the usual tourist trap.
I'm sure there's a way they calculate quality lifestyle and I'm assuming it is on a 100 stage scale. If
that's the case, i'd give Panama the 94. I love the truth that I can have a stunning $100 dinner on top
of a high-rise (the actual restaurant scene is off the hook) or a $2 mountain of food at a café. I really
like how I can be in meetings in the city in shiny buildings with snappy night stands , then 2 hours
later on , be sitting in the actual San Blas carribbean archipelago with a 500 year-old tribe of Kunas. I
love the actual infrastructure, which makes it simple to get to secluded beaches and mountainous
areas in a breezy morning. In my opinion, Panamanians take great pleasure in pretending to be
difficult. I love the people though because I think they are unique: hard on the outside but caring as
well as sincere in the middle--similar to Junior mints.
If you're reading this , then you've probably used the time to read the entire article which I applaud
you on. I would recommend, nevertheless , that you do something more productive with your time :
go to night college or something. Oh, and when its your birthday celebration today, happy birthday
celebration.
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