Dancing at Fiestas Patrias

The Panamanian Studies teacher, a sweet lady named Griselda Franco, enlisted me to dance at the Patriot's Festival assembly.  After a month of practice, this is the outcome.  The Panamanians onstage, including my partner Lalio, put all of us foreigners to shame with their inborn rhythm.

But my favorite compliment came from my principal:  "Well, there were some awkward gringoes on stage.  But you were the least gringo-ish of the gringoes."