JUICE

I AM GOING TO JUST WRITE THIS AND NOT BE SCARED OR HOLD BACK!! WHOEVER READS IT READS IT WHO EVER DOESN'T OKAY GOOD FOR YOU!!

Yes! I can admit it outloud I hang out with the person that broke my heart. The person that has impaired my thoughts and has since led me to be cold and standoff ish. This person he has made me just like every other Keshia Cole singing, Beyonce bumping broken hearted bitter bitch out there. He is like my crack I compared him to Wendys last night. Its easy, fast cheap and yummy in the tummy but Its terriable for the body, breaks you down and makes you fat. Its bad for the heart and jams up your insides!
I can't help it and I don't want to help it. i really enjoy him company if nothing else. I am comfortable around him its easy!! Hes here I'm struggling to discover my purpose here and until I find it I have him to ease the move. I know its a bad idea I'm depending on him too much but I can't help it. I am so SICK AND TIRED of people and their negative attitude about it!!! Be my friends support me till the end! Don't judge me don't try to make me think I'm wrong for friending him.
I know NO ONE wants him to hurt me but he's not even trying to. its a plutonic friendship with nothing more. When i need something he is here thats all I can say. I want him there I don't want to not have him in mylife. I like what we have shared I love his friends his family. and yes I love him i didn't fake it when I said it I meant it! I'm finished with being IN LOVE.... but I have love. I know Im walking a fine line on the fence but just guys stop waiting for me to fail! Smile that I am adjusting to my new city with an old friend who is here to help. I am greatful for him and he appreciates me as well so its fine for us and we owe no one an explaination I just am over the negative vibes with it!

dog eat dog

Today I found myself being very selfish with my future and suggesting to my cousin Marla that she do the same. We both work for adidas and both have a love affair with the company strange to others I know. I think it comes with the passion of really living the way that the brand was created to live by. However in these economic times the money situation can play a huge part on your love affair with anything.
There are tough struggles out there for people I am much better off then most and am greatful everyday for my blessings. I feel at times I deserve more because I feel I want and have earned more. I am ashamed to say that I saw the hardship of someone else's world colapsing I saw for myself opportunity. I by no means was throwing anyone under the bus but was sitting like a voulcher ready to scoop up the left overs. What can I say though its corporate America its rough out here in these streets. If I don't play this game properly someone else might beat me to the top! I am getting there by good hard honest work. However, I had to stop myself from seeking a moment of excitment off someone else's hardship. I then encouraged Marla to follow the best financial path that would stimulate her future. I didn't tell her about my greedy excitment its the wrong message to send.

the universe has a plan

A relaxing Sunday off. In Miami Sunday funday was Family day. In New York no different. Today after a 1 hour and change ride to the Bronx to retrive my car I drove to Queens to pick Angie up from work and we had a fabulous afternoon together! But it was great to enjoy the day off after a full on night of random partying....

Jess Mabel after all these years randomly sends a text message to my phone, "I'm in the city where are you would you like to meet up?" ( Jess and I were pretty tight Bff style through high school till summer of our senior year there was a blow out things never were the same.. TILL LAST NIGHT) I was home debating on where the night was going to take me and I was pleasantly surprised when it led to an all nighter with Jess and her Penn State friends.
I quickly changed into something suitable for NYC saturday night and jumped on the next train. It was a little strange for the first 5 minutes. I mean we havn't spoken in almost 2 years but after the brief run down of the past few years in our lives it was as though we had been friends the entire time!
It was exactly what I needed to get my NYC life jump started. I've been slightly struggling with finding my own comfort zone that doesn't consit of only the Bronx and Bk crews I previously knew. We danced the night away bar hopped and I was introduced to a few new places in Mid Town. Im looking forward to some more hangs with Jess and her fun fabulous Penn State Alumni.

blackout march 27th

This Saturday they are requesting the whole world go without power for 1 hour to give back to the earth!! I think its a great idea to show how many people are being conciencious about what is going on. I am a little scared though the Black out didn't have such great results back in the day .

Although this is preplanned Im curious to see just how much of NYC will actually be powered off...
Are they going to turn off Time Square? The subway?? I can assure you most merchants aren't going to close their doors early...... are they???

The country in someways seems more united then ever since we are all feeling the same pinches. The news just dissapoints time and time again as I watch and listen to these bastards that want Obama to walk on water. They gave George Bush 8 years to mess everything up. They have given Obama 66 days and all they are is skeptikal. Im not! This country has had many lows before lower then this and will come out of this just the way we have in the past! Im staying optomistic and positive!! For once I am trying to follow these debates and issues and for once I can almost understand! Give it time

focus mannnn

FOCUS

FOCUS FOCUS

I NEED TO STAY FOCUSED!!!! ON ME!!!!!!

DETERMINATION AND FOCUSED ARE WHERE I AM!!!!

my horoscope says I should talk to people and strike up conversation...my horoscope must not know i moved to NYC!!!

Rebirth cont.......

In a society where we are free to make our own decisions and choose our own paths we have evolved in to unsatisfied creatures. It seems as though its either too hot or too cold. He either pays too much attention or not enough. The job is great the pay sucks the pay is great the job sucks. We very rarely stick things out because we should. We sometimes do it out of necessity and other times scared to make a lousy decision.

We are however, extremely quick to offer the correct answer or a bit of advice to someone else. we will encourage one another to take steps in a direction which is in their "best interest". We will persuade them to buy something, to go on a date, to dump a loser or stop taking someones crap.

We can't however make choices that are best for us so easily. I am constantly weighing out the options thinking it through in advance over work, purchases, relationships. I have recently learned that I give pretty damn good advice and my friends listen and react. I got very scared though since they say those that are good at something for others normally stink at that thing for these selves. ie wedding planners don't get married, phycologists are messed up at home, the list goes on......

Fear not young Helenas... as my rebirth continues through 2009 I have reached a step I forgot I was climbing towards and thats the LISTEN TO MY OWN DAMN ADVICE!!! I'm showing improvement and not letting someone walk over me. I', finally starting to treat myself the way I want to be treated by others!!! YEAH this rebirth is going pretty well.

Today I think, its going to be such an inconvenience to make the trip. I'm already cranky tired and my end of the sentence is here! But when I think back about it you would have done it selflessly for me. You would have not even thought twice about the long drive the cost of gas or the risk of no parking when you returned home. You would just have gotten your happy ass over to see me on my day. You would have been delighted and ecstatic to do it. Never even a second guess in mind.

Is it that I am lazy? Maybe I'm selfish with my time? Perhaps Im still angry with you and havn't made peace with it?? Whatever the reason is why I don't want to there is only 1 reason why I should. You infact are celebrating your birthday and you are in fact my mother. Whether it pains me emotionaly or physically to do this small guesture of Love it needs to get done. I would ordinarily love to do this as I adore Bdays and feel like everyone should feel special. Still there is something there that little bit of anger that makes me second guess if I should go through the trouble for you. I know you would for me. I want to for you. I wish you just stopped making me so damn dissapointed. Then other days im soo proud! ( wow now I know how you feel)

my loss

Yesterday when I went to pay for lunch i had not 1 of my bank cards!!! Today when I've awaken to retrieve my card thinking it is my pants pocket... NOPE!!!! where did 2 different banks cards just disappear too??? Was I this irresponsible???? I lost both

Now its sunday Nothing is open of course

grrrrrrrrrrrr

panama art

This pic is the family when we were getting ready to go to Las Tablas para Carnival!! this is even missing a few! We were rolling pretty heavy

I have this new love for light images of different kinds and these particular images came from Panama Ahhh i can''t wait for my next trip!!

confused as usual

I use to feel at times that I was so confused and so unsure and that everyone around me knew what they wanted. Im glad that NO-ONE seems to be completely certain of their moment or there future. I've struggled lately as I do not have the job I always thought I would have by this point in myself. Come to realize that I'm not even sure what that job is!!

I already did the 9-5 job desk all day computer, same people say after day... sitting around getting fat cause in an office theres nothing to do but work and eat at your desk. The jet company was great but NOT what i ultimatly want right now. I'm blessed with this new opportunity at SLVR that I have been crying and bitching about for over a month now and I got it. The job is soo much work and I don't get paid what I should be getting paid. But Im starting to feel like thats life. I really want this job to work because I feel like it might be my spot! The small staff is great all 3 others ahaha. The free clothes are great always! The hours are simple 10:30-7:30! I'm a manager always a plus.

I just don't know if managing a retail store is what I really want for myself. But this is paying the millions of dollars in bills I owe for that education i recieved! The one Im using well sort of using

Im a star!!

I am the luckiest girl in the world and I try to make it a point to remind myself that and to let my friends and family know how imparative they are to my everyday well being. I think so much in this mind of mine all the time The wheels are turning random thoughts. Im a Sag baby what can i say DECEMBER 7th wooohooo. But I have been so blessed to have all of the positive energy I have surrounding me all the time I can't express it enough. Today was the first say at the job I shinned I felt the magic I knew it! I took what i had learned through the years and it paid off. Now on my second day Im going to meet the CEO of adidas!!!!!! Its huge and Im a manager so I actually have to talk and be intune with the shit show that needs to occur. Tommorow is my first big chance to make a lasting impression. Im excited Im nervous I want this!! i deserve this!!! IM loosing my mind!! work is a huge part of mylife its always been a positive escape from my reality of life. Sometimes its consumed me in a negative ways but most the times its positive and tommorow is the first time Im going to feel important in this huge company I work for..... eeek

work work work

I arrived the 13th of Feb on the 14th of March I had not one but 2 jobs both part time Im the Key Manager at SLVR and a shop associate at Equinox! Im really excited about both jobs they both offer somethhing totally different then the other which is great! But i hope I didn't take on more then I want to handle as I often have in the past. Im always fixed on the idea of $$$$ and benefits oof a job Im always working and these 2 jobs don't offer and cash money which is going to be hard to get use to. I really wanna bartend again for the summer time and make that cheddar!!! But in anyevent Im pleased to have some jobs as most people are struggling to get any!

the tangled webs we weave

If life were like the cartoons guys would represent toxic waste... think about it they are no good! You want to get close and see what it does but you know its a bad idea to get near it. When you do get all mixed up in to it the results are scary sometimes! In the perfect world Walt Disney would have been right on the money but instead we get a mix! Sometimes they are perfect then they flip into the poison you just can't leave alone. I have to say at times the boundries are hard to see because you long for what was the feel the touch of that moment. You know though that its not a good idea and you have to stay away! I know anyway and I have been wearing my protective gear over my heart. Its difficult at times but over all Im happy to be in the game even if i need a little extra protection. Who doesn't??? They asked in sex and the city if you loved someone once like really loved then do you ever get over it???? the answer to the question remains unknown to me as I tread dangerous waters with my past in the present time. Im still searching to the answer not only to that question but to soo many more as well!

taking over the world

My status today was Im ready to take over the world! My thought of world domination was fueled by the energy of my 2nd interview with SLVR! Today at 4 it went down in Soho... The process lasted a grueling 45 minutes and was mostly positive. I was scared the whole time remembering the things Eirelan had coached me on. I was seated with 2 gentleman one Dean a few years my senior and Mike the German power house of the adidas brand! They asked me all of the usual questions strengths... communication...weaknesses...taking on more then I can handle..... Asking me about my visual merchandising and training experiences. AHHHH the interview lasted a lifetime and all I kept thinking about was I hope this is the job to fuel my career.
They eneded the inerview by telling me they had only a part time sales position with a low pay rate I was honest said I wanted the job but the Pay was terriable.I went home very upset wondering why I had put all my eggs in 1 basket. What was I thinking this isn't the job for me... this isn't what i spent 5 years in college to work as. I might as well have stayed in Miami for that job...... My honesty later paid off ( the questions still on remain and will work out for me I know they will)

I GOT OFFERED THE JOB... Not the exact full time position I was looking for ( those dont exist in todays economy) But I got offered more money and a better position. I shined I executed I CONQURED!!! I start Monday as a part time Key and Im really pleased just to have a job in these tough times seems like an honor. Now Im gonna go in on them and work my little ass off till Im at the TOP!!!

retraction!!!

My posting yesterday morning was a gloomy reflection of the wrong side of the bed. The day actually went on to posses a great amount of energy and beautiful weather. It took me a little bit to become motivated but once I did I enjoyed a beautiful stroll through the city later meeting up with some Miami friends which is always pleasant. The night ended with a journey to Brooklyn to see my niece the cutest little thing in the world. She was so bubbly and excited she is a little blessing. They say and Tish reminds me all of the time to sit patiently and my time will come. I know its coming I feel it coming and Im so damn excited about it I can't contain myself sometimes. I hope more then anything that when it gets here that it is in deed what I have been longing for. But as I wait patiently I will not await with lazyness I will pursue my destiny! Today I feel like I can take over the WORLD!!!

The Search Continues

The city looks sad today as its covered in a blanket of thick white fog. The rain washed away the snow last week bringing excitment and hope into peoples worlds. Today the rain brings myself a sluggish day and crappy attitude. The search continues for me to find a job in this concrete jungle where there are litterally thousands of others fighting in the same position. Ive managed to stay positive and happpy until today. I woke up this morning with a chip on my shoulder. My selfishness is saying WTF!!! I moved here for this " great " opportunity that im not recieving leaving my perfect job perfect friends and not so perfect living situation to persue more perfection. So fay NYC is comming up a little short. I am in a great living situation and have good people around me but not working is taking a toll on me. It just has me bored and over thinking. At least if it were summer time and I was bored there are things to do as Im not scared of the cold! The search continues and thats the end of the complaining. Things are really great considering Im unemployed!

the phenominal women

The Phenominal women

You got all excited to tell me about your writing about your learnings. The same excitment a young student has you shared at your age. The excitment in your eyes lit my insides up like a christmas tree. i can't remember the last time you smiled that way. Your smile was big and bright your eyes were filled with hope and energy. You have a new path a new set of goals and hopes. These hopes are the dreams that fill your mind both day and night. These same dreams I have drempt for you are now closer to reality. My rebirth came at 24 when I awoke and yours a tad bit later at anyevent you are reborn again. Within your mind you body and soul your thoughts have changed have matured and have become so great you can taste them. Your fizzle at the mouth when You see the positive results in your work.Steps are slowly turning into leaps and bounds. Your learning there are no limits and although coloring outside the lines is dangerous in life taking risks is not. Dreaming at any age becomes a reality. You have read the Phenominal women and now you awaken to learn that she is you and you are her. That there are no boundries on dreams and goals. The only boundries are the ones you create for yourself! I have a twinkle in my eye to see you grow i have never been so proud

1 drink too many

My moms drinking problem is something that eats me alive both day and night. I've struggled with these feelings my entire life and it doesn't hurt any less as I get older. I almost feel like the pain is cutting in deeper as I get older because I feel helpless. Everyone is always offering great advice and lending a listening ear but it still hurts. Its a pain I can't describe It just eats and eats on me. Its like her shitty choices snack on my soul. At an attempt to let her know how I felt I wrote an enraged 3 page letter. The letter had my heart splattered all over it as thought I just took it out of my chest and dropped it on the page. I hope when she opens the letter she can see it and feel it the way I do. I left the letter on the counter and instructed Darryl to give it to my mother. He of course read it. Called me claimed he wasn't being nosey but couldn't help himself. Im glad he read it I left it there for him to read. I want the whole world around me to know maybe then she will get it. But this opened the door for Darryl and I to have a conversation about this. The man never does this his feelings are shut tighter then the banks doors on christmas. I loved it we chatted we spoke I was honest he was honest. I feel like he knows me better now. My brother and I are his only kids he never wants to have any of his own ( after me they couldn't ever top this so why try LOL) Im lucky hes my step father and hes lucky Im his kid and my mom is lucky to have all of us behind her supporting her. I hope the letter opens her mind body and soul to change. I can't handle her to have even another drink !!

tired

I must say I am adjusting well to the city.... except I feel like I havn't even lived in New YOrk yet. I am always on the go I havn't seen anyone really and Im constantly in my car running somewhere or taking someone somewhere. Now Im back in PA visiting the family in the sticks for the weekend. I just long to be settled to have a job to feel like I have a space to call my own and a life of my own. I had it all. I left it!!! I had everything I ever wanted. Amazing job i loved maybe not my career path but I loved it and I left tmy fabulous friends and my huge house with walkin in closets and a pool. Im not living in NYC on the Lower East Side and Im still not satisfied. WHAT THE HELL IS MY PROBLEM?

I just want to be settled ( m happy with my choice to move)

China

In watching a Chinese Documentary I was able to see the creation of an entire town of Ninjas. I was part jelous as I always loved martial arts and was saddened when my evil step mother forced me to quit!
We are so blessed to be able to make the choices we choose everyday. These small Chinese Children I am watching are being foreced into a career at birth. They live in a society that is more competative then anywhere. Every minute 34 children are born in China. That is a large pool fighting for jobs. These Chinese Martial arts students are learning at an early age so that they can grow into cops and soilders and have jobs. We don't start thinking these thoughts till we are 15 and college becomes a choice. We are so blessed to have choices.

confusion

I always do things i know i have no buisness doing and i make decisions about certain people when I already know the outcome will be negative. i wonder why I always do this to myself. As much as I have grown in the past year I still fall short to this particular situation. Everyone advises me to stay away but my curiosity the same one that killed the cat always gets the best of me. I really dislike this about my self and I have worked on it in the past and been great. But then this situation appears and I fall trap to it. Each time I fall into the hole a little bit less so maybe eventually I won't fall and at all. Or maybe I can just sit here typing all night then there will be no hole to fall into.

day in the life

I woke up today at a cool 11 am... I had to fight myself to stay in bed since I have nothing to do outside the house and don't have my car here anyway. Its only 12:43 and i feel pretty accomplished.
The day started out at 40 Degrees which is great compared to last nights low of 13. I was inside hiding with my feet on the heater. Today Im more comfortable roaming the empty house just me and the dog. The phone was rining all morning so I finally answered. Of course it was for me and it was my student loans Im currently defaulting on. I am making a small payment to defer them for 6 months. ( 1 check off my list of things to do) Next phone call was my car company I didn't pay before my trip to Panama they wanted it NOW! i paid ( check #2) I checked my bank account balance to be very displeased with the amount I have and I freaked out a little bit since Im still not working But im going to be okay! ( positive thoughts positive future)
Phone call #3 was KEA!!!! I love my chats with her. Its like writing a movie or a book. The conversations are filled with positive and negative but seem so delightful everytime. Talking to her envokes my inner creative spirit. I almost feel like I can paint or draw when Im talking to her since my imagination runs wild. The thing is we talk about real and important subjects exchange dramas and sagas. i really miss her and her hugs. Shes a great person and i wish I was around her right now to help her escape her reality. Our worlds are so different when they collide its always an adventure! She's comming to New York in MAY!!!!! woohooo

the saga continues

I love to work I feel lost when I have no job because for me that is scary the parents don't pay the rent and the car the girl pays for all her own. (independence is a drag at times)

The night we left for Panama I checked my voicemail and there it was the message requesting a 2nd interview . One i missed I jumped quickly onto my G1 phone got her email from Vikki and emailed her about the confusion. In Panama I went online once ( 50cents it cost lol) to check to see she hadn't responded. The unfocused unmotivated bad communicative Helen would have not called her back upon my return. Today i stand driven and motivated knocking down doors in my way.

I CALLED!!!!!! I explained I WON!!!!! I recieved a second interview wooohoooo ( for the second time) I know most companies wouldn't have cared! and the second chance at that this is because Im a product of E Manning but Im okay with that. ILL TAKE IT!!! its going down at the end of the week Im nervous Im excited I hope I say the right things!!!!

10 day journey to Panama and back

well Panama was an amazing expierence that I absolutly loved!!! I don't think I'll be able to express how open I was to all of the expiernces and just how open everyone was to me making it the time of my life. Angie's family is soo damn big I was meeting people till the very very end and they welcomed me with open arms and guided me through the country with excited faces. The parties consisted of over 100 people each time and partying till the sun rose each time. The hugs the excitment to see each other really was intense. Some people had seen each other in many years so it just made me smile even more to know thats how happy I will be meeting my own family this summer in Puerto rico.

Although Panama was a mind cleansing expiernce I would say it was body damaging. We did eat home cooked food every now and again but for the most part we ate out a lot since we were always on the go. I mean litterally always going somewhere! I have to say that they freaking FRY EVERYTHING!!! i wanted to die the first time I realized but I sucked it up and became one with the situation. I kept my promise to myself and didn't eat any friend chicken or french fries but I did slip and has a bite of a friend emapnada from Pio Pio which is their fast food chain. I did not eat that nasty gross MacDonalds though. Serving Pollo Mc crispy. That made me laugh.

The price points were so odd. For the most part everything was very inexpensive compared to here. They use American Dollars so it made it very easy but things costed so much less. It really had me sitting back and thinking like these people are so happy and enjoying their lives so much with the small wages they are given and they make it work and here certiain things are more then double in Price. Yes we make much more money so we can afford for things to be hell of more expensive but damn!
examples:

• American Shampoo by Loreal a regualr bottle was alomst 5 bucks!! we pay 2.49 at target for

• Internet cafes only charge .50 a half hour and a dollar an hour ( nyc its like 5 bucks almost)
• Cigarettes are 1.50 a pack for Malboror and one the back they have big huge scarey pictures of what can happen if you smoke) but in NYC they are 8 bucks a pack
  

• At carnival where here in the USA food at special events is normally like $7-$8 a plate plus 2$ bottle of water. There for $2 you got a chicken sandwhich with chesse and a soda. They even had full plates of arroz con pollo for $2.50!!!

• Taxi rides are in old 1989 toyotas with 221,000 miles on them and its a dollar or 2 bucks if your speaking english to get around the town. They can how ever refuse you like Nah i just don't want to go there.

• We ate dinner at a sit down with 50 ppl for only like $200.00

• They don't Tip at most places like its just not something they do so when I did tip them they seemed confused but eager to serve me again

• A bottle of Seco which is the Panamanian drink of choice sells for $4.50 a bottle for $5.5o you get a carton of juice on the side. Beers cost less then soda at .60 each and you get a case for 8$ then take it back for recycling.

Okay Panama is not the most green country in the world however there was something I noticed. When we went to Carnival up in the country side called Lal Tablas there weren't garbage cans all over the place which had me soo confused. Instead you throw the trash on the ground. Now the reason they do this is because people make a lot of money off the garbage. All the cans are collected and recylced!!!! then someone else's job is to pick up the trash. They are in fact happy to see the cans everywhere because it gives them income. They are big on reusing the bottles and cans which I loved. The eating of iguanas however that was something I wasn't sure I could get with. They weren't cooked in time for me to eat but I was sad to see them awaiting their death as dinner.

We did so much while we were there but Carnival in Las Tablas was the highlight. We partied Friday night till 5 am at Momma Gume's 72nd surprise bday party then at 5 am 5 taxis came to pick up 20 of us ( this ride i thought i was going to die i spent the half hour eyes closed praying ) ( cab drivers think they are nascar drivers blowing the few red lights that are in the city a honk of the horn is the only signal they use for get outta my way) the 20 of us trooped it to the bus stop where we payed $7 then .10 cents to get on a bus for a 4 hour ride to the country! I slept the whole way except while we passed the canal i really had wanted to visit but there wasn't time! When we arrived at Las Tablas we stayed in a bright green 1 floor house with no hot water( in fact little to no water at on epoint i was in the shower soaped up and no water was comming out i waited for a few drips to come through to rinse out my soapy hair!!!) and a few lights. No fans no ac sleeping on the floor on air beds and others on blankets. ( i shared my little twin bed since some people brought nothing) When we arrived we changed quickly and hit it to the fiesta. They all had water guns and trucks filled with water ready to spray you down! It was about a bizillion outside the sun was shinning with it was haning out on top of just us and there didn't seem to be enough water. plenty of Seco and beer but no water. After a few hours we went to the house napped for an hour and then got dressed to go back. The night time was a club. Dressed in flats and a tank top with shorts the 20 of us headed back. Drinking 9 bottles of seco that day we again partied till 5 am!!! This time it was just the youngins no parents around. We watched over the younger kids. Ian came hes 15 he partied like he knew what he was doing and even though he got sick the last hour he kept partying. I can't describe how much fun it was and how enjoyable it was that it was the whole "family". I really love them as though they are my own! We danced we jumped we fell it was great. Just under the stars a big stage and everything in spanish ( like a small dream to me) They played that silly over the rainbow song and I thought i was going to fly into the night sky ( i wanted to )
They loved Angies boyfriend Errol the RASTA man with dreads! Peace and Love were spreading everywhere as we were all just ready to drink and get wet for three days straight. At night my spanish was the bomb fearless in my drunken state i learned more then i did in the day time. I chatted away in the language ( now im not the greatest but much better then i was) OOOO que borechatta ( ooo whose drunk) was the theme song i of course lost my voice on the 3rd and final day for 2 days after yelling the line for 3 days staright! The music was a mix of reggea in both english and spanish, reggaton and spanish tipico salasa bachatta. something for everyone! I loved that whole being in the country no cell phone no internet way more then i would have imagined!!! just a little bit of water and the sun and i was fine. After 3 days we took a 6 hour bus ride back since the bus kept stopping and i think breaking down i was happy to get home lay down and sleep!!!! I missed 2 nights of going out cause I passed out but i needed it after Las Tablas I had no voice I was swalloen ankles and a rash on my foot. It was rough But i can't wait to do it again!

Ill update more later about the wedding and the mountians. Im so pumped about my trip Im rambling more so then usual!!!