So, the point of study abroad came around when I needed to leave the country in order to renew my tourist visa that I am on here in Costa Rica. So, my friends Kyle, Taylor, and I decided that we would try to go work on the Panama Canal on private boats on a whim. We hoped that we would be able to get one of those crazy study abroad experiences that you always here about. Let me start of by saying that we got to the same end, but with very different means. Let me give you a photo to sum up the mood of the trip:
We spent our time riding what we began to affectionately call the "struggle bus". Urban Dictionary defines it as : Used to metaphorically describe a difficult situation. To us, it was our transport experiences. Our 15 hour bus ride ended up leaving 2 hours late (aka: it left at 1 AM). Once we got to the border we realized that we hadn't purchased return tickets, and that the wouldn't let us enter Panama without them. So, we had to talk to some random guy to buy a ticket to come back when we were at the border. So you can kind of see how this trend began.
Once we finally arrived in Panama City, we took a taxi to the hotel we had booked for the night. However, they apparently didn't have a room with three beds like we had booked, so they drove us over to their other hotel that did have 3 beds. All that followed that night was fantastic. We walked out to the waterfront and walked as we were in awe of the skyline. And it was upon that skyline that I found a familiar sight that found us excited all of a sudden. Hard Rock Cafe. We walked all the way there so that we could enjoy a good American burger. Needless to say I was in heaven. I grabbed my mom a pin (as is customary in my family) that features one of the most exciting parts of Panama: they just have crazily decorated busses. Look at all of this bus nonsense, and it is just getting started.
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