A Personal Experience

“The lawyer is comiong tommorow to talk to you guys, just answer whatever he asks honestly.”

Thats probably the toughest thing anyone has ever asked of me. I moved to Panama about three years ago. Moving to Panama wasn’t as easy as you may think it was. My parents split up when I was just a little boy; I was like seven or eight. After the divorce my siblings and I lived with our mother and we never saw much of my dad—he was always at work, literally. My mother spent every second she could with us, at least while she was in Miami, because every other week she’d travel to Panama for business reasons. And in order to spend more time with us, she decided she wanted to take us to Panama.
But to move to Panama we had to go to court. Dad didn’t want us to go, and obviously my mother did. One thing led to another and next thing I know lawyers were getting involved and everything was turning into a big mess. After a couple months of court dealing we (my siblings and me) had to basically choose between Miami and my dad, who I didn’t see much off, or my mother, who I was accustomed to and felt more comfortable with, and Panama. As you can see, we obviously chose my mother, and we moved to Panama. This was a tough decision for me to make, I was only 15 and I didn’t know what life with my dad would be like if I stayed so I chose what was most familiar to me and left. I still talk to him just about everyday, and we visit every now and then, but not choosing my dad will always be one of the decisions I will always look back upon and wonder.

You all may be wondering what this 17 year old kid named Charbel, from Panama is doing posting random essays on this website. Well the truth is, I have no idea what I'm doing either. Basically this was an assignment giving to me by my well respected english teacher, Dr. Sirias.



On my First post I just want to briefly tell you a little more about me and the things that interest me, to see if youwant to keep up to date with my essays. I guess I'm pretty much just like any other typical 17 year old. I like to party and have fun, but at the same time I like learning about, pretty much everything in the world. I also enjoy topics like religion, the human being, the human brain and what it can do, and most of all our little imaginations. I'm also very much into martial arts, I've been training jiu-jitsu for about five years now, and I could listen to just about any kind of music. Umm, in school I'm an Ok student I guess, but it's not becaus I can't do it, its just because I'm simply not interested or I simply just won't study. And I guess you can also call me Lazy.

When I was just a little toddler my parents split up, and by the time I was 15 my mom wanted to move to Panama for business reasons, and now here I'm three years later living with my mother and siblings writing essays and posting them on this Blog.

I hope you find some sort of use to them,