International Learning

The crooked shower tile and crooked lines on the highway give  Panama a rough around the edges feeling. Every moment of the first few weeks we were here it was almost all I could see.  But eventually it become clear that although things are not as well engineered and planned as in Canada, it all works pretty darn well. That includes Kelsey's school.

My high school was a massive building crawling with over 2000 students and just a bus ride away from the largest shopping mall in the world.  My daughter goes to school with about 40 other high school students in a two story house (and a small addition) that has been converted to a school.         

Panama Coast International School offers their own curriculum or helps the students continue working with their home country curriculum. Using online learning from Alberta Distance Learning she doesn't miss a beat when she goes back for grade 12.  



This rough around the edges little school manages to squeeze in more life experience into each day than what she used to get back in Canada. On top of the boring school stuff, her first full week of classes included more than one afternoon on the beach and a bunch of hours pitching in to help paint a building. She loves it. So for those of you that think she is attending Underwater Basket Weaving or Talk Like a Pirate 101"...you can be assured her education is top notch and she is getting a big bonus of life experience.    

The Music Room

Stairs the the second level

Lunch Room

Kids hard at work

The Pool!