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March 30

Randomness

I feel like writing but I don't feel like writing...
You will never know...
I don't know if you know at all
I did buy a shisha
I managed to come back to the Western World
I still have troubles in forgetting you
I am scared that maybe I won't be able to do it
I don't know
I wish we could share the des(s)ert
I think we'll never know
I can't handle being with you
I can't handle being without you either
Maybe writing is just therapeutic
That's why I feel like writing after all
They say it is just a matter of time
Let's hope
In shalla
March 25

Life in 2007

It has been a long time since I wanted to initiate my experience in the blog's world. I tried it last year with an msn space but eventually I gave it up. One of my New Year's resolutions is to start and maintain my blog.

Now I will go through this year experience, it has been already three months and it is a lot happening in my life and around it.

I feel so lucky, happy and complete these days, so many things had changed and I had the chance to discover a lot more about myself.

January:
I spent New Year's in Mexico with my parents, it was so good to see them again and refresh the sense of having someone unconditionally in my life, I told them that I was feeling like continuing my AIESEC experience in Puerto Rico and that I was going to run for MCP next year, fortunately I got their support.

February:
We passed through all the election process, the national plenary voted and I was elected MCP of this beautiful country! Along with this, two people in my team were elected, my MCVP Finances, Julimar and Rene MCVP ER. It is a great feeling to have a year ahead and I can't wait to start doing things. We are still searching for the fourth person that will complete our team...

It was the 14th of February, here in Puerto Rico (as in Mexico and some other countries) that means Valentine's day, chocolates, balloons and a whole display of love. I was starting my journey to Cairo, I passed that day in SJU airport, while thinking a lot about my role as an MCP of a foreign country, I realized that I was Puerto Rican already, that I decided to stand for MCP because I believe in this country, its people and its potential. While I was in the plane to NYC I was thinking I was so proud to be representing my AIESEC country.

I was in NYC airport for a while trying to check in my bags with Puerto Rican rum. Then I headed to Amsterdam, I love Schipol airport!!! I've always liked airports and train stations a lot but I believe this one is the most friendly airport I've been to. It has a place where you can just lay down and sleep, easy internet access, I like the ads very much and it has a whole shopping mall outside and you can connect to the city with the train easily.

Besides that I was so lucky to meet Rita in Amsterdam, she took me to drink this fabulous chocolate with wiped cream and took me to see the city a bit. I remember that I was in Amsterdam like four years ago but it was very different, I liked the city very much, I might consider living there in a future, if it just wasn't for my incapacity of riding a bike...

Well, I haven't even started the conference yet and I had a lot to tell already. After "I don't know how many hours" from AMS to CAI I arrived to beautiful Egypt at 4 a.m., my luggage was lost and I met some AIESECers from Ireland, Japan and Brazil at the airport. My luggage was recovered after four days, and in the meantime I was suffering big time and wearing borrowed clothes.

The conference in Egypt was just AWESOME, everything, where can I start? the atmosphere of the country was kind of turbulent in a good way, like the big red sun and the air, the mosques praying in the speakers, the fruits in the corners. It was so easy to find someone smoking shisha outside their house, people was so friendly and happy, they drive like hell (worse than in Mexico city) it seems that there are not traffic rules at all.

The CC team was so caring, they just worried about you and were always ready to help. Specially I remember them taking me shopping for clothes (since my luggage was still lost) and telling me about their AIESEC projects, they had been in AIESEC for three weeks or so and they were so excited about their experience, these kind of things for me are valuable, sometimes we forget when we were new members and they were in that precise moment to remind me about that excitement, that it is not just about processes, strategies, implementation but about people.

This journey in Egypt was one of discoveries and of asking the right questions... During the formal dinner in IPM I was asked this question that shocked me. Someone asked me: What do you miss from home? Actually I realized that what I had been missing in Puerto Rico I didn't miss it anymore, that I had everything I needed with me and ahead. That question made me think a lot and I just realized that from that moment on I had with me everything I needed. I let go some things that I was trying to keep even if it was not right. In that moment I felt complete.

March:
I came back to Puerto Rico on the 1st of March. I didn't see the pyramids in Egypt but I don't regret it, why? because somehow I know that at some point in my life I will be living near Africa and the Middle East and I will have the chance to go and visit the Egyptian pyramids, ride a camel and sleep under the stars in the desert.

After my 2-days flight CAI-AMS-JFK-SJU I arrived back home and I felt weird, it was weird to adapt again to the normal life after such an intense experience, it felt weird to go back to work 9 to 5 and just work... I had all the energy to change the world in that very moment, I was willing to apply everything and do something about it.

Now I feel better here, I adjusted myself to work again and to the AIESEC life, I still have all the excitement and everything, and I feel I have all the energy to do things here, I feel like so many things are coming and we have to be ready for them.

Ok, too much reflexion for now... happy facts about these days:

  • We cleaned the AIESEC office, and it looks brand new!
  • I bought a shisha in Egypt
  • I re-discovered the beauty of Old San Juan
  • The movie Prime made me cry
  • My favorite album Limón y Sal from Julieta Venegas specially La Última Vez

April 19

Trainee, NST y tamales los domingos

For the Spanish-speakers readers... mis aventuras en PR de trainee, NST y tamales los domingos...
 
April 05

Enchanted Island

Now posting from beautiful Puerto Rico island!!! I know it has been a while but I didn't have the inspiration to write before. Puerto Rico is great and rainy, I haven't started my traineeship yet... but I'm working in AIESEC as Support Team. Not bad!.
 
The highlights of my life are that 2 of my pictures were published at TEC de Monterrey, on the LRI day. You can see those here:
 
 
 
You can also leave your comments here in my website, I will appreciate those.
 
What else? Puertoricans are treating me nicely (even if they don't like my accent hahaha) ... and I'm quite fine here... I will send you some details as soon as I have something to talk about.
 
Favourite song these days: Atrévete - Residente Calle trece
Favourite food: mofongo de pollo y quesitos de un dólar del merendero
Favourite channel: Univision (es lo único q llega a la casa)
Favourite book: Estilo de Vida Oriental... great pictures!
 
March 25

Sabines

Espero curarme de ti

Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Siguiendo las prescripciones de la moral en turno. Me receto tiempo, abstinencia, soledad.

¿Te parece bien que te quiera nada más una semana? No es mucho, ni es poco, es bastante. En una semana se puede reunir todas las palabras de amor que se han pronunciado sobre la tierra y se les puede prender fuego. Te voy a calentar con esa hoguera del amor quemado. Y también el silencio. Porque las mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.

Hay que quemar también ese otro lenguaje lateral y subversivo del que ama. (Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: «qué calor hace», «dame agua», «¿sabes manejar?», «se hizo de noche»... Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho «ya es tarde», y tú sabías que decía «te quiero»).

Una semana más para reunir todo el amor del tiempo. Para dártelo. Para que hagas con él lo que tu quieras: guardarlo, acariciarlo, tirarlo a la basura. No sirve, es cierto. Sólo quiero una semana para entender las cosas. Porque esto es muy parecido a estar saliendo de un manicomio para entrar a un panteón.

 

Jaime Sabines 

February 09

Detalles...

Hola de nuevo!

He estado un tanto desconectada, no diré q es por exceso de cosas q hacer, yo creo q más bien por falta de inspiración. Los highlights de estos días:

 

Extraño a mi panita Maria q se regresó a Guate... y ahora no tengo con quien hablar de Borinquén.

 

Ya estoy haciendo algo. Ahora hago belly dance, de nuevo... después de haberlo dejado por años. Sirve para moverme un poco y dejar de ser un panda.

 

Sigo con mis clases de alemán ahora sabatinos xq el tráfico durante la semana es una locura.

 

Recomiendo un libro que leí estos días: Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley. Muestra la realidad de una sociedad controlada, q vive en una aparente felicidad... léanlo!.

 

Próximamente haré un viaje a Guadalajara para visitar al boricuamexicano... y claro a todos los demás presentes en La Perla Tapatía. Chequen las tarifas de Interjet y Volaris, valen la pena.

 

Y claro como ya la mayoría sabe iré a Puerto Rico a hacer una práctica por AIESEC a la Compañía de Comercio y Exportación. Me encuentro en espera de mi VISA.

 

Pues na' creo q eso es to'... ya luego puedo profundizar... si quieren.

 

Notas mentales:

Chivas ganó a 1 a 0 al Cienciano de Perú.

México perdió ante Puerto Rico en la Serie del Caribe...

 

C'est tout...

January 17

New year, new job...

Hello!
 
Well... finally I made some decisions regarding my future... I can't help it, I am still an AIESECer... so I decided to apply for an @ traineeship... SN-In-MX-CM-2006-1278.
 
Ok, first my graduation, Christmas holidays, and New Year's were ok!. About graduation I had a great time with great people! We danced a lot and I finally accomplished my goal of having a pineapple in my head (piña en la cabeza) just for me. It was a nice day, and I enjoyed so much with my friends and family.
 
Next day, we were all hang over and everything. My parents and me decided to go north. First we went to Guadalajara, I had a short visit from Edgar and we talked a lot. Then we went to Nuevo Vallarta, I met Natha there and we spent X-mas. After X-mas I went to Mazatlan and enjoy the beach and the great food in Panama restaurant, thanks to the advises of my culichi friends. After a couple of days in Mazatlan we decided to cross the Sierra Madre (mountain dividing the west of Mexico). We went from Mazatlan to Durango... 200 kms but 6h because of the mountains!!! We stayed in Durango, Zacatecas, Leon, and enjoyed the great barbacoa of Palmillas, Queretaro.
 
That was my road trip to the north... then we arrived to Mexico City again and spent New Year with the family!.
 
It's already 17 days since New Year's Eve and I'm only waiting for my traineeship and studying German, soon I will go to the gym I promise... in the meantime, I'll just enjoy.
 
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