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10 years later

 What can I say? it's been 10 years since my last blog, a lot has happened since then. There's so much that I want to say but it won't all fit in this post so I'll just talk about the most important things that have happened to me since 2012.  2013: This was my very last year in Miami, I had just finished up my second semester in FIU and I was needing to find a place of my own since my mom was losing her house. It was definitely an important year because it was the end of a long chapter in my life, where I had spent most of my childhood and part of my young adult life, no more Publix and no more chusmeria. 2014: On July 4th, early in the morning, my friend Frank, his buddy Mustafa and I, set out at 5am. We were bound for West Virginia, about 24 hours by car from Miami. I gave a big hug to my mom and told her I loved her, and from that moment on, I knew I had to take care of myself. I lived in West Virginia with my best friend, his wife and his mom, they really gave me a...
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2012 Woes

2012 ended with a bang! and by that I mean it ended with an endless popping of fireworks everywhere. Can't say much has changed since then. I feel that all my hopes and dreams have been put to a halt because life just wants to be interesting like that. Before the closing of 2012, a customer of mine who is a Flight Attendant for AA informed me that they were finally hiring, and that they were hiring at least 500 people for In-Flight services. I for once felt that this was the best news I've heard in a long time and I was overcome with hope for the future, my future. A Flight Attending position that pays $20 per hr? Yes please! I'll be doing what I love which is traveling and earning good money, and most likely be transferred to another city as home base. It's perfect! soo... after kindly refusing to share any contact information with me, she then promised she would bring me copies of the Job Position details, and two days later, I has an envelope waiting for me in Custom...
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My life so far in 2012

It's been a looong time since I've written anything and let me tell you, soo much has changed in my life. Many people have come and went and some have left to follow their paths, other new people have arrived and have affected my life in positive ways. I've been to many places outside of my home city Miami and outside my home state. I've fallen in love with places like Morgantown, West Virginia, Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of course the wonderful BIG APPLE New York City, New York. I have to say that life in Miami and my perspective of it has changed drastically since visiting all these grand places. I no longer feel like I belong in the Magic City, since it has turned into a mediocre third world country with people who don't give a shit about it nor do their best to improve life for anyone. This is a place where if you ain't ghetto, rich, or Latino, then you will have a very difficult time adapting. The party aspect for sure has never...
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Customers and Evesdropping

So I finally recieved (again) my ide of Orula which I haven't worn since it last broke 2 years ago. I knew that as soon as people at work were ganna see it, that questions were ganna rise about why I'm wearing it. One of the cashiers asked me if I was into Santeria, and I responded that yes I do follow the religion. This cashier is very loud and veery expressive :P so everyone can hear what we're talking about, and so she asked me a couple of questions about why I'm wearing the ide, and I try to be as discreet about it as possible because I didn't want to offend any customer passing by, buuut, her expressiveness was too much. A cuban guy passed by wearing an ide aswell, but apparently he didn't hear very well what I was saying, and ontop of that I stopped talking when he came close. Today before I left, the spanish lady tells me that a "friend" of hers told her that a boy with a huge eye around his neck (me) was talking nonesense about Santeria with so...
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Video Games? Immature?? How??!

So I was eating something with my friend sitting next to me talking to his boy-toy, and he suddenly asked in a very sarcastic way "oh so you're playing video games?", and my ear twitched to the sound of these words since it meant that he had a problem with video games. I asked him if he didn't like video games and then the bitch tells me that video games are for immature straight boys! how absured is that?? and then he went on calling me immature because I play them and that I should be ashamed of myself for confessing that in public. I felt right there that our friendship took a slight turn. No one has ever, ever been able to criticize me or stop me from playing video games, and I wasn't ganna let this guy change my mind. I asked him how in the world were video games immature, and then he gave me the old "because.." without giving me any solid reason why its immature. The only thing he was able to pull out was that he didn't like them and that they ...
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Inle

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Today I recieved the eleke of Inle, it took a while do to an unexpected delay, but finally I have Inle with me today. Ache Inle! :)
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Update On My Life

Its been a while since i have written anything here, I've been through a lot lately and I think that perhaps I should come back to vent. Maybe I'll come back to write a little more on here. Lets see! For now let me just list some of the things that have happened. For starters, I finally found my spiritual house ( Ile ) where I am now initiated in. I am now Omo Obatala , and pretty soon I 'm getting my warriors ( guerreros ). This year started like a drop of an Atom Bomb b . My stepfather worsened from his cancer and thus leaving him once again bed-bound until he was sent to the hospital and became hospitalized for 2 and a half weeks. On the 18 of March he was sent home because there was nothing else the doctors could do and at 9:30pm that same night, God took him from this world. The funeral was one of the most difficult things I 've ever experienced since I have never in my life been through such a thing, I had to stop my mom from throwing herself towards the coff...
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