The most rewarding experience from the two - month training was eating a spinach salad, freshly picked from my host family´s organic garden, my first experimental project. It is the most fantastically fresh and tender spinach that has ever entered this mouth. A sprig of the plant was generously donated during a visit to the Los Santos province, and carried back in a plastic bottle (pretty much the only way to recycle in Panama is to re-use). Now as I make my way to my site, I carry a sprig in yet another bottle, taken from the now fully-grown vine that resides back in the garden. If it dies in-transit, it may be impossible to interpret as anything other than a bad omen.