Panama, night shift, future?

So I am working night shift here in Panama! It's interesting, I've never done a night shift before, but for some reason they gave me tonight off, so I'm just hanging out by myself, wide awake at 0100... I like working nights though, it's pretty chill, we just hang out and do little projects that need doing that can't get done during the day because it's so busy. and then we wake up the patients every four hours to take their vitals and check up on them.
I got to push some drugs last night, that was pretty fun :) I just hooked up the syringe to their IV and squeezed it in over three minutes time. It was Toradol, which is an anti-inflammatory, and it burns the veins when it goes in, that's why I had to push it slowly.

I'm thinking of moving here to Panama after my mission, we have an LDS guy named Sione here on the ship for the week as a translator, he lives here but he grew up in Utah and Australia, he served his mission here and moved here after. He's been telling me all about living here in Panama as an American, he says if you speak english (specially if you're american) you can get a job anywhere you want, as a manager or anything, and they'll pay American salary. And the price of living is reaally low, like $3 for a pair of jeans. Because it's So. America, but mostly because they get everything really cheap from the ships going through the canal! And they have a few american colleges here with really low tuition, so hey I could get some schooling done too!
Oh and they use the US dollar here , so that makes things easy :) And that's all just a rough overview of everything! I don't put down all the deets ya know?
So I'm thinkin this would be a nice place to be after my missioin... :)

Exerpts fom the Journal

So hey everybody, every time I sit down to do some bloggin I have too much in my head and none of it comes out! So I'm going to type up a day or two out of my journal!

May 20 - 2313
Colombia! Cartagena to be specific. I love it already! Such a beautiful place!
I'm staying in the Hotal Caribe which is right across the street from the beach! It's not the prettiest beach, not like other caribbean places I've been to, but the water is super nice and the sand feels soo good!

May 21 - 2354
Woohoo fun place :) Mi gusto mucho!
(here there is a drawing of me in some sweet sunglasses I got) I got a bunch of stuff, ate some good food, hung out with some good friends, saw some neat places. Great!
So this morning we were planning on going the castle tour at 0830 but when we got to the BLZ, which is the naval base, only three of the eight of us had our IDs, so we got some taxis and went to the old city! Which was way awesome might I say. We had a tour guy show us all the old historic places around the city, he really knew his stuff! We saw things like the biggest church in the city, which used to be a monastery but is now the University. And the Santo Domingo cathedral.. looks like a big Catholic cathedral! wow cool huh.
And we hung out on the beach some... Me, Ash, Mindy and Brad.
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Then I have "I fell asleep" written across the rest of the page

May 23 - 1056
hmm... too much to say...
Juanes is coming to the ship! in case you don't know who Juanes is he's pretty much the most popular singer in latin-America! way awesome.
I got this sweet arm-band from a street vendor it looks like this: (a drawing of a strip of leather with little squiggly lines and a big peace sign) it's leather and the two ends lace together with an elastic string.
My mind is kinda all over irght now.. and apparently I'm a bit dyslexic right now too.
We were walking around the old city one night- Me, Jenna, Min 'n Ash, Ali, Diane, Brad, Kirsten (Jenna's mom), Rachel... I think Rob... Bro. Rix... and we all went to dinner together but then it was a Pizz/Pasta restaurant so a bunch of people left to find some ethnic foods. So the leftovers (me, min 'n Ash, sloane, Rachel, Bro Rix) walked to a place where you could get up on the wall (this was after dinner) and walked down as far as we could along the walkway place up there. Then we came to where changed to just a wall, about two feet wide. Maybe less. And Bro. Rix just just climbed right up and kept waling down the wall! SO we all folled *I'm sure I meant to say followed here* behind :) Well Mindy and Kirsten didn't... Mindy's afraid of heights and Kiesten's a bit older. It's was like... 100 meters? That was fun. Then where it became normal again there's a bar/restaurant called Cafe' del Mar which is really spendy. So we just hung out at the base of the wall and talked with some vendors there. One younger guy was selling stuff that looked really original, he said he makes it all himself! Mindy made good friends with him (like she does with everybody, lol :) ) and got some cool bracelet things.
While they were chattin I noticed a nice looking yellow coconut hangn out in a nearby tree so I decided --Hang on this is a good song--
Sorry, that was Be Here Now by, Ray LaMontagne. Good song.
So anyway! I decided to climb the tree and pick said coconut! The tree was only like... 4 meters high? And the coconut came off after only a couple twists :) it's a big'n.
I think we're gonna eat it today :) it heavy too, I carried it around town the rest of the night :)
My left hand is strong again! From carrying food trays like a waiter :)
So I was able to palm the coconut for a bit at a time.


There you go!

Antigua?

Hey everyfolks, I didn't realize how long it'd been since I posted last!
Angie is awesome to the maximum
Just thought I'd throw that in there ya know.

So we're anchored off the west coast of Antigua now, it's pretty much beautiful. Looks like an island, with the mountains all covered in greeness, then a bar of sand with cliffs breaking it up here and there, and some houses in the trees. Which I wouldn't mind owning... heh

I got to go ashore yesterday! Which was great because up until yesterday we didn't have any patients on the ship. booooring.
So we have this big cataramaran (that's alot of A's eh? reminds me of a canada joke...) that pulls up along side the ship and everybody loads on. It's way nicer than the little boats that we've been using in Haiti and the D.R., those only held maybe 20 people, but this big'n holds probably 60 or somemore. And it's really slow so you get a nice long ride around to the north side of the island, which looks more like a place we'd be working (has poverty) but it's still the cleanest place I've been ashore to so far. And then we went in busses (little ones) to The Multi Cultural Exhibition Center, very nice building, to sort patients and do checkups, dental work, optometry, the like. But yesterday at that place they were over-staffed because on thursday they were under-staffed, so I spent alot of time escorting patients around or just asking people what I could do to help.

And I got a real MRE for lunch (not the training ones we've been using). I added up all the protien from all the different items, 35 grams of protien!! wheew, I'm not deficient anymore, for suure. Or at least for yesterday I wasn't

So yeah! That's my ranting for the day, how does it compare to your day yesterday? ;)

Temple Pictures!

So hey guess what!
I got my pictures of the temple, uploaded them, got them all arranged with captions and the whole whatnot, posted them, THEN realized I had done this all on my family's blog, not my own... SO if you want to see them they are here:) http://howdybadooshkee.blogspot.com/2009/05/temple-pictures.html

Santo Domingo

I made it to back to the Dominican Republic!
Our flight came in at 7:30 though, and they don't have boats to the ship after dark, so we're staying at the Marriot here in Santo Domingo.
When we got to the hotel the LDS guy that picked us up from the airport asked us if we wanted to go see the temple! So we did! It's only a few blocks from here, and it is Beautiful.
I took a few pictures.

I was standing waiting for the elavator here and the guy who took our luggage was waiting too and he asked me "Habla espanol?" and I said "No... Yo hablo Italiano" and he said "Oh. Io Parlo Italiano, y pocito ingles"
so that was neat :)

And while I was home I got an SD reader so now I'll be able to move my pictures off my camera! And do things with them! like posting! yay!^_^
So hopefully I'll have pictures of the temple on here tomorrow.

A Domani!