Day 10 – Final Reflection
Student Trip Blog
Hello everyone! It’s Yashiro-Rose and Stasia writing in from Panama!
Today, we visited two amazing places in La Arena: Lucrecio’s clay studio and Orlando’s family owned bakery. We were able to step into the culture and explore different career paths! Both of the options we explored uses hands-on learning & crafting.
First, we woke up bright and early at 6:30am, Anastasia and I got up about an hour before. Once everyone was awake we had a simple breakfast consisting of pancakes, toast, eggs, sausage, mango, and passion fruit juice. (ps. It was quite tasty).
After we finished, we jumped to our first destination! In around 45-50 minutes, we landed at Lucrecio’s clay studio. He told us about the history of his artisan work and how it related to his family as well as the culture in La Arena. We had the opportunity to paint our own pottery and even throw on the wheel!
We then took a short ride over to Orlando’s Bakery where we ate a Panamanian lunch: Chicken Chow-Mein, with ketchup (a traditional way of eating this dish), and Sancocho. Orlando told us about his ideals of entrepreneurship and how he intertwined his family and his passions. We unfortunately missed the window to make bread with Orlando’s wife, Yami, as they can begin preparation as early as 2 AM. (Yikes!) But, we had great dessert, got grind sugar cane, and meet their 6-month old puppy, Ellie.
We all watched the world cup on the bus ride home and ended off the day taking our first walking tour of the area around our hotel in Las Tablas (We had a short delay while we waited for Porter, Owen, and Sharon to wake up from their secret nap… yeah.. it was not secret!) We’re relaxing together as a group and getting ready to settle in for the night, I hope whoever is reading this has a good rest and we’ll see you tomorrow with an update from our two new Liders Del Dia.
Anastasia and Kelly pushing the machine to make sugar water.
Sincerely,
Leaders of the day, Anastasia and Yashiro-Rose 🙂 <3
Comments (14)
Kristin Pape
I can think of few pursuits for the day more fun than bread and pottery. How cool. Perhaps a great gift for your parents would be to demonstrate those bread-baking skills when you get home. Just a suggestion. 🙂
Love to all,
Kristin (one of Yashiro-Rose’s moms)
Maddie
AWWW MY ANAAA BIG LEADER OF THE DAYYY
i miss you and marsy so much, and i hope you all are enjoying your trip <3
i love you guysss
xoxo maddie
Stephanie French
This is awesome! Beautiful work. Hope you are all soaking up every minute of your adventure.
Sarah Covalli
Wow these first couple of days have sounded awesome for you all with a little site seeing and local culture Emerson. Looks like you have been keeping busy and enjoying yourselves so far! Yashiro-Rose and Anastasia, great first student leader blog!!!! Looking forward to reading each day and see what new adventures you have gotten to explore!!!!
Lots of love,
Sarah
Fany y Jorge Rodriguez
Wow! What a busy day. I’m glad you are all learning and having fun. Chicken Chow-Mein, suena delicioso😋. Lucrecio’s clay studio what a blessing. Takes time, patience and other skills to work with clay specially using the wheel. Oh boy the smell of fresh bread, I close my eyes and transport myself there😄. Thank you leaders! Cant wait to read how day 4 went.
Juan Martinez-Muñoz
Bread baking AND pottery!? Sounds like GG may need to open up a little artisanal bakery or something when y’all get back to show off all the great skills you’ve been learning! Sounds like things are off to a great start, and seeing this post has made my day! Great stuff!
Liz Tousignant
It sounds like a lot of fun with some education thrown in! Keep making memories! I have already looked up a couple of sancocho recipes – tell Kelly that’s on the menu for dinner when she gets home!
Brooke Donatone
Looks like you all are having a great time and the activities look like so much fun.
Yashiro, we miss you so much.
Much love,
Brooke (Yashiro’s other mom)
Maggie & Barry
Sounds like you had another great day full of interesting experiences! You’re really packing in the activities and meeting awesome people. We are sending good wishes for continued fun adventures! We miss and love you, Owen!
Maggie & Barry
Aaron Price
Kristi, We love seeing the pictures and hearing about your experiences so far!
Have fun. Great job with your pottery!
Love,
Dad & Tricia
Stacey Fonseca
Looks like so much fun! Hope you’re all having a blast! Hi Kelly Tous!! Miss you.
Lakis Pape
Great work with this blog, it lets all of us share some of your excitement for the places you visit and the valuable experiences you gain. Enjoy every minute, so happy for you
Eric Santiago
Omg!!! Anastasia everyone here is missing you and boy your mom won’t stop talking about it lol and Wow group leader i know you’ll do a great job I’m extremely proud now back to adventure.
Jessica Ramos
😍 Anastasia you amaze me 🥹 Love you so much❣️ keep up the good work !! 💐