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Bel Air

This is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down.

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A Story for you

this is a list

Mom: yuyu haka Sister: um Mom: wow

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Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts is my faaaaavorite!!! I spent late nights getting through the first installment in the early 2000s. A couple decades late, I am waiting for Kingdom Hearts 4 to be released. I think the story in Kingdom Hearts 3 was not as engaging as Kingdom Hearts 2. I am worried that because of this, Kingdom Hearts 4 will not have a good jump off point. Here are some things I would consider if I was working as a part of the development team for Kingdom Hearts 4.

Keeping Sora as the main character

How much Final Fantasy will be incorporated

Battle UX

This is an example post to try out tumblr's editor interface. I wonder what library they used to build it. It's a lot like the one I'm building right now.

Leon mentioned Medium and Tumblr both to me when speaking about the project. I think I am on the right track in wanting to model our interface from Tumblr.

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i was just talking about this with someone LOL

Happy 2 Years of Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer was revealed

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Convos with Kaido

Kaido: Bow wow Migs: Que Kaido: *runs in circle

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I built this

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"I know now, without a doubt, that Kingdom Hearts is LIGHT!" - Sora

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First Entry

Published on 3/29/17 @ 1:44am on Blogger

Tonight, I'm up late doing research on how my trip to Cuba would look. I haven't done any extensive research yet, but it's looking like my best bets in terms of reasons to back up my visit to the country are going to be either journalism, educational, or general support for Cuban people. I'm thinking that I could maybe get some help with this from CYC. Through the blog posts we did during our trip to New Zealand, I think I might have created a platform from which I could travel to a bunch of different countries. I like the sound of becoming a traveling rollerblading journalist/student covering stories about child welfare and rollerblading.

Naturally, there are a lot of questions running through my mind. I'm scared of being held up at the airport upon arrival and not being let into the country for whatever reason. I'm trying to push this thought out of my head so I can concentrate on what's right in front of me right now.

Today, I finally bought my ticket to Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic. I'll be leaving San Juan on July 7th, and flying into Las Americas Airport early that afternoon. What a blessing; Edwin's dad is letting me crash with their family. I'm really excited to have the opportunity to explore our neighboring island with locals who currently live there. I'm currently trying to figure out exactly how much time I'm going to spend there. I told Edwin that I would need a place from the 7th-11th of July, thinking that I was going to make at least one more stop somewhere before coming back to the states (I was given approval for time off from ILP until the 15th of July, but that is assuming the contract gets renewed and I'm not made to reapply for the position.

With all of these questions in the air about where I'm going to be living for the second half of this year, I find refuge in my guitar and rollerblades. I also have a really awesome loving support system that has my back. Without the support of various dope ass individuals in my life right now, I probably wouldn't have the balls to make an honest effort to get into Cuba for a few days.

Trip so far:

Depart Oakland on Wednesday, June 14th at 5:33pm

Arrive in Vegas on Wednesday, June 14th. at 6:58pm

Depart Vegas on Tuesday, June 20th at 11:05pm

Arrive in Philadelphia at 7:04am

Depart Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 21st at 8:20am

Arrive in San Juan at 12:13pm

Depart San Juan on Friday, July 7th at 12:24pm

Arrive in Santo Domingo on Friday, July 7th at 1:27pm

On July 7th, I will have physically been in 3 different countries. I hope this first blog post will start a compelling and informative narrative to the struggle that an American minority student's traveler faces in the time of extreme political climate and overall what-the-fuck-ness.

I'm dumping all of my money and resources into this trip, and I don't even feel bad. I got to finish my homework. It's 1:34am. I got political science in the morning and I can't miss it.

Soundtrack: Camila

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luxury, or privilege?

I read a couple chapters and completed some school work today. Just emailed my assignment to the teacher about 5 minutes ago, and it’s due at 11pm...talk about procrastinating.

“I wish I had that luxury”.

My close friends’ critique of my upcoming trip through Latin America as being a “luxury” came back up in some friendly conversation the other morning in her kitchen. My friend opened up the conversation after I had thought me and her fiance had finished it the night prior. They seem to think I took offense to the comment, which I denied wholeheartedly on the grounds that I was asked to contribute my argument when I was clearly done with the matter. Quite some time had passed since the comment was even said, and the invitation for dialogue struck me as something random.

In the car, earlier that same evening, my friend referred to my trip to Cuba in the summer as a “luxury” that she wishes she had. I responded by stating that it was not a luxury, prompting her fiance to agreeing that my trip was indeed not a need. 

What my dear friends overlooked was that by labeling my ambition for travel as something “luxurious” they are were in turn trying to instill what they perceive to be a “luxury” into my world view. The transference of this view takes away the validity of the hard work I put in to my well being and the mental and emotional barriers that I have to work through on a daily basis to flex this privilege. The word “luxury” implies a level of comfortableness that more mirrors a lack of a push for progression or change in something, which is not something I think is accurate when when it comes to my ambition to traveling out of the country. 

The comfortableness that the word “luxury” implies doesn’t mesh well with the act of going to a country to experience the human experience from the parameters of a different set of rules and laws. I have no guarantee of my safety on this trip, yet I know that this is essential to becoming the insightful, experienced human that our society so desperately needs.

I’m writing this entry with a busted ass right pointer finger (Tinkerbell bit the shit out of my hand while I tried to relieve her jaw of a bone earlier today) working on the newsletter for work, and doing more research on what my adventure through Cuba might look like. With my new camera coming in on Tuesday, I can’t wait to see what the next few months leading up to June will hold for me. 2017 will be my year to expand upon my human experience and love all those around me.