I Moved!

I moved to a bigger house. My immediate neighbors moved, so my landlord let me move into their house. It’s like a mansion. It’s so huge. I have so much space for my friends to crash, now.

I’m planning on inaugurating my house with a family dinner with my East Side peeps.

I will miss some things about the old house, though. It was termite-eaten and pretty much falling down, but there were some good memories in that house.

Things I will miss about my house:

1. The hole in the floor. Cartucho could come and go as she pleased, even when I wasn’t there. I never had to worry about whether I was shutting her in/out. I’m going to rig up a way that she can get in and out of my new house when I’m not there.

2.Outdoor shower. My feet always came out dirty when I left the shower, but it WAS nice to literally bathe IN THE RAIN when it poured down in rainy season. There’s nothing like taking a shower in the rain. It repairs your mental health on bad days. 

3.Visitors occupying my space. (This is a plus and a minus.) Yes, it is a little stressful when visitors come over and there is only so much space to be had in my house, but I think there was something bond-building about the fact that almost all Peace Corps Volunteers on the East Side of Panama have, at some point, crashed in my tiny house with me. It just won’t be the same when we’re not all sleeping in essentially the same space, making stupid jokes in the dark until we finally fall asleep.

I wasn’t expecting to be missing my house when I moved out. (Let’s keep it in perspective: I literally moved ten feet away.) I do, however, feel that this moment kind of foreshadowed what it will be like moving away from this place (a.k.a. Darien). Seeing my old house--now empty, save the garbage--I thought about how tough it’s going to be when I move back to the States in a year. (SPOILER: Yea, I’m going back to the States. I made a life-changing decision. See: next blog post.) I’m definitely NOT ready to leave the D yet, so I’m happy I have another year, I just hope that I’m ready to leave Darien when I’m scheduled to. J