CHITRE 1D DAY 3 JULY 27TH, 2025

Heyyy, its us, your glimpsers. Today’s leaders of the day were Tatiana, Oneillia and Auka. Today’s topic was: Biocultural Diversity, and the big events included a field trip to Finca Pamel, a family owned farm and a cultural presentation on the Guna people. At Finca Pamel, we met two great friends, Martin and Jose, who showed us around their farm. We first saw a tree called Corotu and it was the largest tree on the farm. We could even see it from Juan Diaz Hill.

We had many experiences such as feeding the chickens, goats, and cows. We also picked up the fallen and decomposing mangos to feed the goats.

Here you can see Sheidy picking up a goat while on duty to round up the goats.

We also relocated sapplings called Maron trees, to which we each got two plants and filled them up with dirt.

After we worked on the farm as if we were locals, we went on a short hike to learn about the history that resided on the land and saw some archeological artifacts, inlcuding some broken mugs, tombs, and seashells that were from trade over 2,000 years ago. The destination for the hike was actually Juan Diaz Hill, which you can see below us in this picture.

After we came down the hill, there was a small musuem that had some traditional clothing and embroidery. We learned about some really interesting events and celebrations in Panama.

After we came back from the hotel, we had some special guests – a father and son duo named Johnathen and Don Braulio. They gave a beautiful presention about the history of a Panamanian and Colombian indiginous communitity called the Guna Tribe. During their presentation, they mentioned the violence and discrimination that their people faced in the past and in the present, as well as the traditions they have upheld and changed as time went on. Throughout their presentation, it was clear that the Guna people are a resilient group and have flourished since their revolution in 1925.

Every night we have a nightly meeting. During these meetings, we go over the amazing activities we experienced, quotes, question of the day, and the agenda of the day. At one point, the new leaders will perform a talent to the group to earn the torch (the infamous ‘chacara’ – a traditional, handwoven Panamanian bag), which signifies who the leaders are. We shared “Big Love” acknowledging the great actions of people we interacted with today. For example, David (Glimsper) made sure to check on everyone who to seemed to be in a bad mood and made sure their needs we taken care of, even offering his personal water bottle to us. Finally, we we did a unity clap, in which the group claps loudly in a circle while we get closer and closer. We clap faster and chant a word that is important to the things we experienced today. Tonight, we went with “Finca” which means farm. Thank you for reading and turn up!!!!!

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