Bucket List de los 21

No voy a ir a Vegas hasta que me pueda dar el lujazo pagándomelo yo misma.
Me queda un año en Mayagüez y de ahí en adelante tengo que al revés de lo que cantan Alexis y Fido, bajar mis niveles de mal comportamiento y coger vergüenza para estudiar lo que me he propuesto.
Así que a continuación un lista preliminar de las cosas que quiero cumplir antes de llegar a los 22.

Advierto que esta en construcción, se aceptan invitaciones, compañía, cervezas, pon, ideas y sugerencias :)

1. [x] Correr Caballo
2. [x] Combate
3. [x] Aparecer en el portál de UPRM (aunque fue un chispito de mi ser)
4. [x] Sacar toda la ropa que ya no uso o no me sirve (aka. más de la mitad de mis 2 closets)
5. [Kind of] Kill the LSAT
6. [x] Faro de Arecibo
7. [x] Culebra
8. [x] Vieques
9. [x] New York
10. [x] Times Square
11. [2x] Broadway Musical
12. [x] Ground 0
13. [x] Red cube in NYC
14. [x] Central Park
15. Parque Pasivo de Camuy - echarle pan a los patos y a las tortugas
16. Tripcito por VSJ
17. [x] Otro concierto: Calle 13
18. [x] Hacer algo realmente espontáneo
19. [x] Cánada
20. [x] Aprender a comer algo canadiense
21. [x] Tomar cerveza de Canada
22. [x] Heineken Jazz Fest
23. [x] SanSe 2013
24. [x] Festival de las Flores 2013
25. [x] Festival de las Máscaras 2012
26. [x] Velorio de Reyes de Camuy
27. [x] Concierto de Lady Gaga
28. Tomarme una foto con la estatua de Tite Curet en el Banco Popular del eViejo San Juan
29. [x] Ir a la Bacardí
30. Isla Icacos
31. Volver a comer orgánico por 1 semana mínimo
32. [x] Votar por primera vez
33. Jugar Gotcha
34. Cerro de Nandy
35. Hornear algo
36. [x] Conocer a dos artistas famosos: Fueron Danny Rivera y Robi Draco y hay fotos
37. Tomar el tren urbano por 1era vez
38. [x] Janguear en el Refugio
39. Hacer un party con reggaeton de los early 2000's
40. [x] Guajataka
41. Vodka Gummie Bears
42. [in process] Llevar una alcancía
43. [x] Cueva del Indio
44. Monte del Estado
45. [x] Balseada de Camuy
46. [Kind of] Ir a pescar
47. Autocine de Arecibo
48. Kayakear
49. [x] No fui a Toro Verde, pero hice Zipline en Hacienda Mi Remanso
50. Gozalandia
51. [x] Tirarme una foto con la estatua de Hostos
52. [x] Puente Viejo de Añasco
53. [x] Bowling
54. [x] Palacete Los Moreau
55. [x] Ir un día de shopping y que me paseen en un carrito de Walmart (K-mart)
56. [x] Ver el Superbowl Completo
57. [x] Tener sucesor
58. [x] Caminar en Relevo por la Vida (al menos por 2 horas)
59. Ponerme una camisa que diga VIDA y repartirle a la gente limones
60. Hacer al menos 5 de las 10 cosas que hacer en Walmart
61. Tirarme a las piscinas del RUM
62. [x] Justas 2013
63. Ser una YESwoman por un día (this might be risky)
64. Hacer un día de Free Hugs
65. [x] 5 imanes nuevos
66. Volver a Villa Cofresí
67. Ir a un Surf Fest
68. Que AIESEC Mayagüez crezca en #s
69. [x] Unirme a AEC, SHRM y SHPE
70. [x] Comprarle un regalo de cumpleaños a Mami que no se lo espere
71. Hacer Paddle Boarding
72. Robar un rótulo de la carretera y un dron anaranjado
73. [xx] Ver más de un ballet
74. [x] Planificar un date all by myself
75. Tinajas
76. Ir a al menos 5 municipios que nunca haya visitado ([x] Cidra, [x] Cayey, [x] Arroyo, [x] Yabucoa, Juncos, etc.)
77. [In process] Hacer un poster de Sugar Cubes
78. Baños de Coamo
79. Pasar un día entero sin hablar (no se como me va a ir aquí)
80. Correr por primera vez el four-track
81. Crashear el party de una boda
82. [x] Museo del Niño de Carolina
83. [x] Ir al Colegio en pantalones de payama
84. [x] Participar en un programa de radio
85. [x] Ir a la Mina en el Yunque (yet again)
86. [x] Ruinas de Aguadilla
87. [x] Mojarme en una fuente pública
88. Ir un día random al kids playground de las piscinas del Mariott de Aguadilla
89. Hacerme un tatuaje de Henna (yet again)
90. [x] Pagarle el peaje al carro de atrás algún día random
91. [x] Tomarme una foto con reptil asustoso
92. Sembrar un árbol en un municipio que no sea Hatillo
93. Ir al zoológico
94. [x] Ir a volar chiringa al Morro
95. [x] Volver a Cueva Ventana
96. [Me falta Veronica decide morir] Leer "El amor en los tiempos del cólera", "Verónica decide morir" y "La Ciudad de las Bestias"
97. Aprenderme de memoria Cat in The Hat
98. Empujar a alguien con ropa a una piscina
99. Pagar un dólar en un FastFood con chavos prietos
100. [x] Aprender a comer helado
101. Patinar sobre hielo
102. Picnic somewhere
103. Cortar la grama en casa
104. [x] Volver a caminar al extreme end de Playa Sucia
105. [x] Ir un día a ver el atardecer a Mar Azul - Sandy Beach (yet again) e idealmente con un muchacho guapo
106. [Juan done] Ser esclava por un día de mis hermanos, mis papás y mi abuelo
107. [x[ Graduarme de bachillerato
108. Jugar "Hi, Have you met Ted" con alguién que este down en la Bosque
109. [x] Ser seleccionada a una Escuela de Leyes
110. Hacer algo peligroso
111. Tomarme una foto con todos los jugadores del Roster de los Capitanes para el 2013

Llevo 43  de 111... Hay que speed this up!

Kind of a toast...

Today I woke up remembering what my mom used to tell me about doing a morning prayer (I woke up at 12:12, but anyhow, it still counts if I do it right after I wake up). I usually had a prayer memorized but I jumped off bed and started to arrange it while thinking in various stuff I was thankful for and various stuff I wanted to ask God for (cut the crap I know we secretly all ask for different things). My mind went crazy as always and I pictured a really funny scenario of a dinning table and plenty of important people sitting down. I won't go to the detail of which people where there, I just think that they might be the ones that read this.

I would have stood up and proposed a toast. I would have also alerted the people to not raise their glasses yet because it was going to take a while. Then I would put on my serious face, raise my Heineken and started on:

"A week ago I was talking to a great dude about how fun would it be to tattoo into our bodies our goals. That way they'll always be there as a reminder of where we are going. This certaintly got me into thinking a lot.

I have been an LCP of AIESEC Mayagüez for a year already and it has been a road of many ups and downs and a lot of new lessons learned. My team, my family and my coach have taught me so much. Our first intern already left and is safe and sound back in her country. I've learned so much from her and from her experience here that I feel like sharing a bit of that.

With that in mind, i'd like to propose a toast to our youth. Our youth that allows us to have the energy to dream big, challenge and go against the status quo, think outside the box, have bold ideas, fight for what we think is important, and to commit in the goal of keeping that energy up so that we can grow old and still be engaged in what we believe is right and make a difference.  

To our youth because it allows us to do good to others, just because we can. Doing good to others might seen at times as time not well spend, but I wouldn't bet on that. Even if the others can't really remember the good you did to them, or even if they don't really understand or appreciate that what you did, you still know and you get that uncomparable sense of satisfaction of knowing that you did what you did just for the sake of doing it. I, myself, wake up every morning at least with the purpose of making someone smile, even if it is by means of a dirty joke. I just feel that if I am happy, I should share that happiness somehow. Plenty of times people do take advantage of me for being foolish at times and being extra-helpful, but I guess that is their loss. I kind of red-flag them by that, and if I'm able to, I'll keep on doing good to them, just not trusting them as I used (gotta admit I learned that the hard way, being the one taking advantage of someone else and being deprived of his trust).

I am so very thankful for the experiences I've got to enjoy, for the things I have, and mostly for the people that I've met in the way. May we learn to reciprocate what others do for us and may we always remember the good they brought once into our lives. May we live our own lives and let them live theirs because no advise will ever be as good as a lesson taught by life itself.

May our hearts never get bitter because something didn't happen how we imagined it should. That's just a sign that better or worse things are awaiting us and that we have the tools and the strength to overcome that situation and many others with higher difficulty. May we be able to turn our good experiences and things to be thankful for into the falling stars that we save in our pockets for the plenty of rainy days to come. Being happy should not be a matter or whether things do or don't go our way. Most of the time they won't and if our happiness will be dictated by that, then we ought to be miserable people. I choose otherwise. I may get down at times, but my spirit will take me back up. Things can really really suck at times! Sometimes just because, sometimes because you made them go a different way by behaving somehow or by not doing something you should have. May we use all those stepdowns as bridges to work harder the next time or as fertilizers to accept that things aren't going where we tought they were, but we'll make them better.

May our hearts never ever get stubborn as to thinking that we know it all, because we certainly don't. May we be humble in acknowledging that we are human beings that make mistakes, and that we have an enormous gap of things we need to improve in order to get to excellence. May that gap always keep enlarging itself, so that we never ever fall in the mediocresy of not being brave and corageous enough to get better in life. May we love ourselves the way we are, along with the imperfections, but may we also fall in love with the struggle of moving foward and stepping our of the shoes of rest into the working ones.


May our hearts never get lazy or tired on the road. Yes maybe to pick up the remote, or to study for a really hard math class, but other than that, may we keep our light litten up. May we be diligent in accomplishing what we are set off to do and may we never settle for less that what we know for sure that we can bring to the table, because we are in fact talented people with a drive that must not be lost by frivolous crap. Rest is for dead people. Let us always keep our sight in the long run, in the big picture."


I'd ask my readers now to symbolically raise your glasses. I'd tell that I am grateful for the great things they have brought into my life, and how much I cherish even the tiniest thing they've ever done to help me. I'd tell them that our stay in this planet might seem like really really long, but it is actually quite brief. Therefore we ought to do the very best we can in being the very best people we can be. Then again, I'd tell them that in my book, they are certainly on the right path. And I'd finish off by saying: "In Puerto Rico, we don't say Cheers after a toast. We say "Salud", which is a very sincere way of wishing health to each other; health to support the energy that we now have and must keep on having in order to make a change, an impact, a difference. So my dear friends,






A su salud.