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never felt so WARM with so much SNOW...

this is real life. check the fotos from my front porch!

real life footprints in the real life snow

this is my breath...its there all warm in the cold a** air

YES a real life SNOWMAN sayin "hey Alida"

but even tho my face look like this i am LOVIN home!

On December 19th, 1989

KARL MICHAEL IGLESIAS

aka OYE aka BEAR aka MIKEY aka BOBO aka a plethora of crazy apodos...was born. On this Saturday we celebrate his presence on this here tierra. "I promise that what i do in this decade will dwarf what I've done in the first two."

- K. Iglesias

Before the Panama Canal was constructed Nicaragua and Mexico were two other options.

This is an 1895 cartoon depicting the U.S. action to build the Nicaraguan Canal.

Shout out Minneapolis!

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This is the Tehuantepec Isthmus that was also considered a site for building the canal.

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Pretty much everyone through with finals, except ME, of course...not funny. We got Kelsey and Danez finishin up tomorrow actually and I would be finishin up Wednesday BUT we finna get the opportunity to go work with one of the indigenous groups the Embera. Philly said we gon perform or do a lil something something. We'll see what goes down. I talked to my profe and told him about it and Imma be taking my exam this Friday. The foto above is just one I snatched of the world wide web of three Embera childrens. This indigenous group is the largest in population of the 5 groups here en Panama.


And if you ever watched MTV Exiled - the show where they take the kids from Sweet Sixteen and try and send em, change em, brake em, watever, in another culture....This Cher from episode 9. She was placed right here en Panama with the Embera. We watched it. It was weird. But all the Exiled shows are weird because they only stay a week and we don't think that's enough time to "change" somebody.

Got you after the trip.

we goin home...

Mil

Bean
Minneap

Chi

MAdtown

...see you soon

CHECK it THIS WHERE we gon be at SECOND SEMESTER for school.

aiight so this a but late but u know how sometimes u gotta do wat u do and hope wat u dont not do just due...riiiiight. exactly.

WELL, it was a special lil someone's (whos not really lil but very special) bday on a certain DECEMBER 8th this week and we gotta shout him out cuz we MISSIN HIM AND THE WHOLE 3RD COHORT OF FW REEEAAAALLL MUCHO right now.

NAT IOSBAKER

happy mufriggin birthday

we hope u was as cold as we NOT

haHA

much love n see u soon famalamalamlamlalamlamalmalamlma

FW in the STUDIO

yo. wats good two weeks until we on a plane. so aside from the fact that there are too many things going on right now for our lives to be healthy i wanted to get yall a lil update. aight so right now me n ceci, dom n blaire are up in the computer lab of the Universidad de Tecnologica de Panama. its ac but not freezin; much appreciated comp lab, much appreciated. so outside it is muEFFIN, or rather muffin, HOT-- i mean scorchin like dom said she just cant be fresh over here cuz the minute she walk outside she sweatin bullets (yea thought u wouldnt hear that frase again huh). But, im sayin...this pose to be the dry season coming on. And it is. It be raining less. Like before it would be every day but now its bout everyother or sumthing like 5 minutes instead of 2 hours. We lovin it. AND it be more breezy nowadays.

aight soo, this week and last we got finals going on. this mean papers, presentations, exams, making sure we got all our work in, projects, the whole dang caboodle-noodle. right so we got that good school academic component BUT then check it...we also got this ole artistic thing we do which means... Yea. you guessed it. or maybe not. but ill tell u anyway, we writing and producin another show. we running low on time tho so its stressin a lil. BUT (yes another) its ill cuz the show lookin pretty man ill hot dope n watnot. im hype. you should be hype. but u should also be jealous because you aint here to see it PLUS its prolly cold wherever u at. haHA.

aiight another lil tid pineapple bite; we got two reggaton mas hip hop tracks RECORDED.

WAT?!

who, watchu talkin bout FW cohort numero uno up in FW!?

TRACKS!?

reggaeton mas hip hop?! u oc

tis true my fellow fellowers. we FW cohort numero uno panama version 45678.28765 aka 1 just got through recording these 2 lil fly tracks. We got two tracks meaning TWO GROUPS:

UNO

Adam

Blaire

Danez

Dominique

Jair

Kelsey

and

DOS

Alida

Cecilia

Kim Anh

Sofia

u already know im finna get um to u asap. matter fact why not do it right now. good idea.

Check it out one time, twice, thrice for the spice.

"PELEA" - Grupo Uno

"LOOK AT IT GO (BRING IT BACK)" - Grupo Dos

enjoy.

21 years ago on this day of December the 3rd something so beautiful was born that it had to be kept secret. The brightest intellectuals of the time decided to take the "beauty" and let it live within a human being. This has been a great honor for humans everywhere. For this reason, on this day, it is important that we take time to acknowledge the human form that this exuberant light has taken...

LANA SIMPSON

we love you

we miss you

we apreciate you on this day and all days

hope your day was absulutely brilliant

***FW fam fo life***

p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY N ISH haHA!

We make FAMILY wherever we go.

No doubtin that.

Thank you Dios for this blessing to share a piece of our culture.