First trip

Later today, my 19-year-old niece will be leaving for her first major trip. Tonight, she will be boarding her very first plane, direction Morocco and then another plane, direction Mali, where she will be staying for 2 months!
No need to say how proud I am.
This is how you grow as a person and this is how you really get to know yourself, your strengths and your weaknesses.
Never mind traveling through Europe or Latin America where it is so easy communicating with people. In the villages where she will be staying, they won't speak French nor English!
Did I mentioned how proud I am? :)

Chica, I wish you the experience of a lifetime. I hope you fall in love with the culture and come back to us transformed in an incredibly positive way, and inspired like you have never been. I envy you insanely and can't wait to hear all your stories. xox

Mi cumpleaño

Last week was my birthday. For the past few months I've been dreading this birthday because it was a big one for me. But, I can now say that it made its way to my Best Birthdays list. In the last year I've let into my life new people and they've turn out to be a really good bunch of now-friends. So between the new friends and the older ones, last week was great! I'm really grateful to them for making me feel like I matter and I'm really grateful to life for placing these people in my own life path.
Yay!