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11/4/09




¡Hola, Christopher!

¿Cómo estas? Yo muy bien. ¿Que te gusta? Me gustan mis lagartos. ¿Te gustan el helado? ¿Te gustan más, gatos o perros?¿Porque? Me gustan perros y gatos. Gatos y perros son comico y intelegente.

Mis pelicúlas favoritas son PUSH y The Golden Compass. ¿Qual es tú pelliculas favoritos? Mi música favorita es el Goo Goo Dolls. Mi deporté favorito es fútbol (soccer). Mis animales favoritos son lobos (wolves). Mi juego favorito es Dungeons and Dragons. Mis libros favoritos son Inkheart , Harry Potter y The Golden Compass. ¿Qua les tú libro favorito? ¿Qual es tú Comida favorita? Mi comida favorita es comida china. No me gustan verduras. ¿Te gustan verduras?

Mi nombre en mi classé de éspañol es Aleta, pero mi nombre réal es Kat. Soy de panama en mi classé de éspañol, pero soy de réal es Michigan. ¿Como es tú mama y papa? Mi hermano, Liam, es comico. Mi papa es muy perezoso. Mi mama es muy intelegente. Yo soy rúbia.

¿Cual es tú cumpleaños? Mi cumpleaños es once de febrero. ¿Cuantos años tienes tú ? Yo tengo once años. ¿Cual es el cúmpleaños de tú méjor amigo? ¿Cuantos años tienes tú amigo?





Adios,

Aleta

Panama

At low elevations in Panama the temperature in the day time is usually eighty to ninety degrees Fahrenheit. At night it is usually about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. At higher elevations, such as on the mountains the temperature is lower, it will usually be from fifty to seventy degrees Fahrenheit on the mountains. The temperature in Panama does not change much between seasons. Panama has high humidity averaging 80%. The average rainfall in Panama City is seventy inches per year and one hundred and twenty inches in Colon. The season with the most rain is October through November.
Panama has diverse physical geography with mountains and plains. It is located on the Isthmus of Panama. It is between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and has a waterway called the Panama Canal, used by ships to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa without going around Cape Horn.

Sports in Panama

Many sports are played by people in Panama. Some of their favorites are Beach Volleyball, Golf and Soccer. They try to put a lot of effort into Soccer, or ass they call it, football. Some of their Soccer teams are Alionza Panama, Chepo FC, FC San fransisco Chorrere, Atletico Colon, Corrillo FC, Panama Sporting Club, CD Arabe Unido, Cosmos, Tauro FC, and CD Plaza Amodor.Other sports played in Panama are Basket Ball, Base Ball, Tennis, Boxing, cycling, Horse racing, snorkeling, Surfing, Scuba diving, Fishing, White Water Rafting, and rugby. Basket Ball, Base Ball, and Soccer teams have won many titles and have played nationally and internationally.

When I decided to do a current event article on my country, Panama, I had to find a number of articles and read them before deciding on one. This helped me to learn about the government and every day life of people in Panama. I decided to write about a deadly sickness in Panama called Dengue fever. The more severe type of this sickness is called Hemorrhagic Dengue. Some say that this will become an epidemic, like infectious disease specialist and researcher Dr. Xavier Saez-Llorens. There have already been 1196 cases of Dengue this year, including several cases of Hemorrhagic Dengue.

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Querido amigo,

¡Hola! ¿Como estas? Yo estoy muy bien. ¿Como te llamas? Yo me llamo Aleta. ¿De dónde eres tu? Yo soy de Panama. Mi número favorito es siete. ¿Cual es tu número favorito? Mi color favorito es verde. ¿Cual es tu color favorito? ¿Cual es tu comida favorita? Mi comida favorita es queso. ¿Cual es tu profesor favorito? Mi profesores favoritos son señor F, señor Owens, señorita Schneider, y señorita Pickrell. Mi papa se llamo Bradley. El es un teleadicto. Mi mama se llama Maria. Mi abuela se llama Pat, y mi abuelo se llama Jeffrey.

About Me

My name is Aleta Estrella Ferraz Zalvidar. I am from Panama. I am eleven years old. I have a little brother named Liam. I live with my mom and grandparents. I go to St. Gregory College Prepatory School. My best friend's name is Skye. She lives in Michigan. My favorite color is green. I really like dragons, and I love to read. I read a lot of books about dragons and wolves.

Panama

Hi, my name is Aleta Estrella Ferraz Zalvidar and I come from Panama. People in Panama eat similar foods to the rest of Latin America, but our food is usually not very spicy. We eat a lot of seafood and corn dishes, and fresh fruit. We usually cook our food in oil. A very popular dish in Panama is ceviche, which is raw seafood marinated in lemon or lime juice. Lots of different spices and seasonings can be used, such as cilantro, garlic, peppers, or onions. Also, it often has tomatoes in it. Ceviche can be served with corn chips or crackers, or in pastry shells.




Panama's government is a representative democracy, which means the citizens vote to elect the government. The executive branch is the president and vice president. The legislative branch is the National Assembly, which has 74 members. The judicial branch is the Supreme Court. The political parties in Panama are the Panamenista, Democratic Change, National Liberal Republican Movement, Democratic Revolutionary, and Patriotic Union parties.

There are 9 provinces and 5 territories in Panama. Anyone 18 or older can vote. The president, vice president, and Assembly members are elected for 5 year terms, and the Supreme Court judges are appointed for 10 year terms. Panama's independence day was November 3, 1903. Panama has a constitution, which was originally enacted in 1972, and reformed in 2004.




The Republic of Panama is the southernmost country in Central America. The official language is Spanish, and the money we use is called Balboas and Dollars. At the narrowest part of Panama, it is only 80 km (about 50 mi) across from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. This makes it the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise in the Pacific and set in the Atlantic. The beautiful country of Panama has over 10000 different species of plants, and more birds than the US and Canada combined. In 1914 the United States finished building the Panama Canal, which is 52 miles long. This is a picture of the Panama Canal.