Puerto Rico, has declared bankruptcy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElbguULEO0 No, not like that, real bankruptcy and as we all struggle to deal with this, and the lack of jobs my friend Neysha decided to create Boricuas Connect. This is a portal to help Puerto Ricans around the world help each other find work and for businesses to … Continue reading Boricuas Connect
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July 31st, the last day of summer in Puerto Rico. Tomorrow teachers go back to work, which means children have only one more week of vacation. Everyone is dreading having to start getting up early again and going back to work, for me it's back to staying home with my dogs all day. I'm waiting … Continue reading Bye bye summer
Yesterday was a long day for me, and now I'm paying for that. I started the day at the gym at 8 am, that was the gym without air conditioner in the summer, near desert heat we're living with in Puerto Rico right now. (The power was out.) After the gym I came home, changed … Continue reading This morning I woke up feeling like I had a hangover
It seemed everyone was at the beach in San Juan and probably in the rest of Puerto Rico today; this is very normal on Easter or Semana Santa. In my family we usually spend the whole weekend at the beach in the west, but this year we decided to stay in San Juan because our … Continue reading Easter weekend at the beach
We have to talk about food tonight. There are these amazing places in Puerto Rico called lechoneras, which means they make lechón asado or pork. Sounds good right? Well, it is, very good! My favorite lechonera is El Cuñao in the town of Cayey, where we went for lunch today. It was a last minute thing but … Continue reading We have to talk about lechón asado
Tonight, as we were walking our dogs,, there was this van pulling out of the driveway of a hotel. Out of nowhere the man stops the van and asks us, do you want bread?" What? What kind of random question is that? I mean, if you ask my mom and me obviously the answer is … Continue reading Nothing bad comes from bread
For the last two weeks we have been celebrating because our baseball team, #teamrubio, had an amazing journey in the World Baseball Classic. Our team's participation had everyone glued to the tv, even those of us who don't like baseball or normally watch it; it was the same feeling we had last summer when Monica … Continue reading #TeamPuertoRico
I never really liked baseball; I thought it was too slow, well I still think it's too slow. My grandma tried to teach my brother and me when we were little because she likes it but I was never good at it; maybe that's another reason I don't like it. I could never hit the … Continue reading 2017 World Baseball Classic
Today was an exiting day for Indi and Sandy; after the morning walk we decided to take them to the beach for the first time. They had walked through the beach in their morning walks on weekends, but today we didn't walk by the beach, we actually went to the beach. When we got there … Continue reading First trip to the beach
When I was growing up we used to go to this park where we could run around all day, there were swings, a lot of trees, grass to run around in and get covered in dirt and anything else we could find. I remember going there a lot when I was in elementary school for … Continue reading A day at the dog park
As we were leaving old San Juan yesterday a little after lunch hour, we tried to find somewhere to have lunch. Among all the restaurants in San Juan, most of them serving Puerto Rican food, we ended up in Istanbul. As you may figure by the name, Istanbul is a Turkish restaurant. Here, their menu … Continue reading Istanbul Turkish Restaurant in San Juan
If you are in Puerto Rico this weekend, you have to go to San Juan and visit las Fiestas de la calle San Sebastián. It is the perfect way to start the year and will be the party of the year. Music, food, vejigantes, cabezudos, piraguas; what can be better than that? Just a bacalaito, … Continue reading Don’t miss Sanse’ 17
I know we all saw a lot of really big movies this year, like Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory, The Jungle Book, Ghost Busters, Dr. Strange, Star Trek Beyond, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, just to name a few; but there were some movies that fell under the radar of those big … Continue reading Top 5 Latino Movies
I can't ignore what is happening right now. Everywhere I look, there he is, there are his words, there is the world terrified, just like I am. I don't want to give him more glory by writing about it, but I just can't ignore it. How did this happen? I thought we had this, I … Continue reading Don’t worry, be happy
For the first time in my life I have been paying attention to the elections. I'm paying attention to the governor candidates in Puerto Rico and I can't help but pay attention to the presidential candidates in the states; and I'm sick of it. I just want this to be over. I want it to … Continue reading Is it over?
Unstoppable María 