Today was rainy and a little cold (not cold as in freezing but cold as in you're not sweating when you walk outside) in San Juan. To recharge batteries after the long weekend this is just what I needed to start the week. I rested after going to the gym this morning so I'm still … Continue reading Recharging batteries
Category: I am that girl
Well, what a weekend, it's only 9 and I'm ready to just turn the lights, mi computer, put my phone on silent and just go to sleep. I'm so tired and we were only at the beach for three hours; we rented a boat and went to the beach and the mangroves in La Parguera, … Continue reading What a weekend
After going to a pretty empty beach on the Saturday of labor day weekend (thank you clouds) I got home to begin working on my homework for Tuesday. This was not easy due to the fact that I have to use Google Maps and I have only used Google Maps to find locations, not to … Continue reading Labor Day Weekend
I have been driven to and from work twice a week every week for almost six months, since I got my job, because of my fear of crossing the avenue between my office and my house by myself. I had been lucky to always have somebody to drive me or cross the avenue with me, … Continue reading One small step for me, one giant step for TBI rehab
There is always a six pack, an eight pack or more Diet Coke in my house; I drink between one and three every day. Usually I have enough to last the whole week or more. I always have something to drink when I really need the caffeine boost, but today there wasn't .I usually have … Continue reading Confessions of a caffeine addict
Today, at the second class the profesor was talking about the 5 questions that all journalists should ask when writing a story, or as I learned in college, the 5w's of journalism: what, who, where, when, how/why. It's a journalism class so I knew that was coming sooner or later, but as she was explaining … Continue reading Have I used the 5 W’s?
For the last like three weeks I have been going to the X-Bike class I talked about the first time I went and it's going pretty well. I'm getting used to it and the people in the class as well as the teacher, are all really nice. I don't feel intimidated anymore, but today there … Continue reading Pay more attention
I came home this afternoon having just purchased a lounge chair for my room. I set it up, showed off my new chair to my family, told them how I built it when it really came already built. After I had my new decoration in my room I remembered I have been saying for months … Continue reading New closet
First of all, the storm never came. Second, today I read a very interesting article written by another brain injury survivor. In the article she talks about how she was caught off guard when a friend told her to "Quit using your brain injury as an excuse". Her friend told her this after she asked … Continue reading Que? What? The brain injury is not an excuse
This morning I read on Twitter some news about a tropical storm headed for Puerto Rico, which was scary; but looking on the bright side, it's not a hurricane. It's still scary, we don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, I don't know if I'm going to have to go to work, my parents don't know … Continue reading The storm is coming
Today, August 23 2016, our Olympic athletes were being welcomed home with a big caravan, people were everywhere on the streets following them, waiting for them to pass in the street and for them to get to the coliseum. It was a lot of fun to watch them pass from my apartment, it wasn't so … Continue reading Postgraduate first day
I started working at 8:30 this morning at another press conference which was fun because I got to work at the entrance asking people to sign in, this made me feel powerful. I don’t know if I took my job way too seriously but I felt like a bouncer when I had to tell people … Continue reading Long day, worth it
Last week was an exciting week for Puerto Rico, our own Monica Puig was the first Puerto Rican to win a gold medal in the Olympics. We are still celebrating this amazing moment, but we have to remember that Rio 2016 is not over yet, we still have athletes in Brazil giving it their all … Continue reading Running to semifinals
The first time I went to the neurologist here in Puerto Rico I was given some rules, thing I can't do when living with epilepsy. Some of these I can do now that I have been able to control my epilepsy for so long, others I still need to reach the two years, and there … Continue reading What’s for lunch?
I say I can’t do stuff because of my head injury and that’s partly true, but I can move past that like my former psychologist told me.I think I can but it's very, very scary and I don't want to be brave sometimes because I don't want to get hurt again, I want to protect … Continue reading I am that scaredy-cat
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