11.15.09

Sunday @ Miami

Posted in Activities, Blogging, What a day! at 7:11 pm by nellya

Today was a long day, left home early morning and just got home a few minutes ago, let myself out of my cocoon, decided to do different activities rather than working, since the weather was so beautiful!

-Morning, Volunteer work, cleaning, packing food, wrapping clothes, planning for Christmas, although I won’t be here, I can still offer some help with preparation. The feeling I get after doing something valuable for others with my time is priceless.

-Mid day, Explored Little Havana, ate real Cuban food, walked through the Memorial park, shopping was great found a cuban tool, called “tostonera” that can make perfectly circled  Mexican ”gorditas”, got some dried “chile de arbol”, a rolling stick for flour “tortillas”  and the traditional “jabon Roma”, was a good visit.

-Afternoon, New books for November & December, spent some time at Borders picking my books for the month, and the winners were, taraaaaan…

  1. “Wicked – Son of a Witch”, I am so excited about this book, I loved Volume 1 and had no idea there were 3 of them, however, I left the 3rd volume for January.
  2. “Skinny Bitch”, oh yeah baby :P , no need to describe this one.
  3. “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” by Steve Harvey, maybe I will be able to understand them better after all.
  4. And finally, “A possible dream” by Walter Dresel, recover the ability to dream and make those dreams possible with the strength that resides within ourselves, I don’t even know why I got this one, but seems worth it to give it a try.

Got myself a pair of roller-blades , inspired by the weather, will be nice to go to the beach in the following days.

Next weekend will plan something out and maybe invite my neighbor to go with me, keeping me busy is good.

I am exhausted, *sight*

11.08.09

Another volunteer day in Miami

Posted in Activities, Blogging, Learning, Thinking at 6:35 pm by nellya

How sad is the world that we live in, where some of us have so many and in the same city a lot of poorness and homeless people fighting each day against hunger and a place to stay.

Every child in this world must be able to have a home with people that cares about him/her, this is not right, is not fair…

At least for today, I felt that I had something to give, my problems seemed nothing compared to theirs,  it was comforting  to know that with a few hours of my time, along with other people, we can help to change kids lives in so many ways, give hope and a little bit of love.

Looking forward for next week.

(International Volunteer Day – December 5th)

06.17.08

Dodger’s game

Posted in Activities at 4:52 pm by nellya

A couple of weeks ago went to my first baseball game, it was okay, a lot of people and everything super expensive!!! anyways Dodgers won. See below some pictures from the day.

Juan Nelly

 

 

 

05.05.08

Art in the afternoon – AWBW

Posted in Activities at 6:02 pm by nellya

A window between worlds – Art in the afternoon event

This weekend was special, I did some community work even though i was exhausted at the end of the day, it was joyful.

Goal was $22k - Event was a complete success raised over $25k.

My Assigment: Children’s area.

9:00 am – 11:00 am A little bit lost about what I was going to do, still not too confident to talk with everyone, girls very friendly and finally one of the coordinators guide me pretty well of what I should do.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm More comfortable, by this time I had already some people to talk with. Preparing everything for the arrival of our guests and afining final details.

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Event took place, a lot of people, testimonials, workshops, art pieces for sale, plenty of food. Talked with the people, with the kids, ate a loooooot and had really good time over there. I was the balloon maker too!

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Cleaning time!

Here are some pictures from that day.