Some of the slaves that arrived in Costa Rica were due to shipwrecks. But let’s rewind a bit to slavery in general within the country: While the Spanish Colonists tried to profit off of Limon with cacao plantations, they didn’t have as much success as other countries. For starters, markets were too far away and …
March. The last time I blogged on here was March. That’s just embarrassing. Looking back it all makes sense but at the time it was a lot of ‘I’ll do it once I’m done with this one thing.” and then I’d have a new one thing and the cycle would start all over again. The …
“What if we’re in the painting before we’re born, what if we’re in it after we die, and these colors that we keep adding – what if they just keep getting added on top of each other until eventually, we’re not even different colors anymore. Just one thing, one painting…there’s no you, or me, or …
Happy 2018 everyone!! I know I’m like thirty days late but I’ve been doing stuff like: Resting Healing Drinking Eating Planning Truth be told, 2017 was a bit bittersweet and chaotic. There were the deaths of people I admired very much. There was feeling like a stranger in the country that I called home. There …
I found this video incredibly beautiful. I hope we all learn to love every ounce of ourselves the way this little girl does. Definitely listen to how fierce she is even if your Spanish is rusty. English translation below. Also, shout out to my mom for transcribing this less than a minute after I asked her …
Hold up… That’s definitely sugar coating it a bit. Let’s keep going… February 1990: State President F.W. de Klerk announces the beginning of the negotiated transition to end apartheid, the unbanning of the African National Congress, Pan Africanist Congress and Communist Party, the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, and the end of the state of emergency which has been in place for 10 years. April …
20 days. I’ve actually gone 20 days since my last post. Sorry all. The site stopped working and well I naturally didn’t have a back up and kind of panicked. Fortunately, after hours of tech support and Matrix like hacking…I found the error and fixed it in 30 seconds. Super annoying. But let’s do this…I …
I struggled to find something to write about this time around. Well, not really. There’s loads to write about. But I have standards. Mainly it’s that it’s gotta be different and ideally entertaining. But here I am, 3 weeks later and definitely feeling the pressure to share something. There’s so much history here and it’s …
I think it’s time I confess something: I hate writing. Not really sure what Mr. Gould (High School English teacher) was thinking but I think it’s clear that numbers are much more my jam. I like to read though so it’s not like I dislike words. It’s more like math is perfect. 2 + 2 …
That guy over there on the right, with the Obama on vacation look, is my dad. If you’ve met him you probably don’t have to read the rest of this. But if you haven’t, well let me introduce you to this jolly man. He doesn’t “like” anything. He “loves” it. He will also ask if …
