Rafa's Cramming and its Side Effects

I had a bit of a trite habit of studying two days before the test.
Very haughtily, I would believe that two days of studying would be
enough for me to get a good grade for said test. I would believe
myself to be astute, thinking I could cram in all the information just
in time to take the test, get a good grade and act like a total
braggart for the rest of the week. But, as always, the consequences of my mistake were inevitable. As a result of my obsolete cramming session, I only remembered the easy topics, but couldn't remember the subjects that take time to learn. From this last experience, I learned to be more conscientious about my study habits.

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Rafa, The Medium: Conversation With Don Salvador

Conversation with dead family member Don Salvador.

Me: I never understood. What are you in my family? Are you my uncle or something?

Don: I am your aunts stepather. Or was.

Me: Oh ok. Well I miss you. Even though the holidays were filled with animosity, the best Christmas present I ever got was when you said I was a good kid.

Don: Don’t mention it. And I mean’t it, don’t you forget it.

Me: I’ll try. You know, you’re really well spoken without that stuttering of yours.

Don: One of the few benefits of being dead. Everything that used to hold me down doesn’t anymore.

Me: It must be a relief being released from the burden of your wheelchair. Say, can you run in the afterlife?

Don: You never run. You just stay. You just are.

Me: That’s interesting.

Don: Somewhat. You never do anything but meddle into peoples lives

Me: Doesn’t that mean you’re in limbo?

Don: No, it just means there’s certain issues with my loved ones that keep me from “going into the light”.

Me: Oh. Well good luck with that. By the way, I think ______ has a crush on me and it creeps me out.

Don: Relax. She has a crush on everybody.

Me: Oh great. Not only am I creeped out, but now I feel totally un-special.

Don: You’re welcome.

Camila Featuring Colbie Caillat - Entre tus Alas

When I was informed of this assignment, I really had no clue which song I wanted to talk about. I didn't know what song was "blog post worthy". So what I did was I put my Ipod on shuffle and the first song that came up would be the one I would talk about. And thus, "Entre Tus Alas" by Camila Featuring Colbie Caillat was chosen.

I adore the song “Entre Tus Alas” by Camila featuring Colbie Caillat. The song is carefree and relaxing. It is a love song, but it makes me feel something much more powerful than love. It makes me feel bliss.To me, it represents where I want to be in life. I want to be relaxed and carefree, and I want to live blissfully.

Rafa, The Time Traveler

If you had some sort of time machine, where would you travel to? Using the word "where" instead of the word "when" seems erroneous, since I am referring to travelling to a specific time, no matter how far back or how far beyond in time. If technology were advanced enough for me to roam through time, I wouldnt want to stray to far from the new millennium. I would set my time machine to a familiar era. In this case, I would want to travel to the nineties, since I spent most of my childhood throughout this period of time. When visiting this specific era, I would go to all the places I grew up in. By doing this, I would get a second look at some of the most beautiful moments in my life. I would witness my first years, which include my first words and steps, and I would get to see my parents at a younger age. If I could go back in time to the nineties, I would get to relive some of my fondest childhood memories.

Rafa, The Woman

I once had a frightful dream where I had been transformed into a woman. Even more so, a nightmare, for I was a man incarcerated in a beautiful woman’s body, left in a man’s world where most wanted to keep me as a trophy for themselves. At one point, I got tired of being this prize men sought after, so I decided to go beyond what was expected of a beautiful woman, by getting an education and becoming a successful businesswoman. But, even though I had a triumphant career, I still was seen as just a beautiful woman, only this time, no man ever dared to pursue me. Days after this stupor, I found this dream of mine to be a reality to most women. I realized that if, for some reason, I were turned into a woman, I would not survive a week alive, due to the fact that I am not strong enough to be a woman.

Brainstorming: "Does being sexually active give or take power away?"

Being sexually active doesn't give any gender power. Being male and sexually active doesn't give men any more power than the power they were practically born with. And sexually active girls are the ones that end up losing power in some sort of way, but they gain that power back in time. This happens when females choose to take control over their sexuality (instead of letting society, men, or other women dictate what is acceptable.)

Bread

Right when I was picked up from school, there was this discussion I didn't get to analyze because I was sorta napping, sorta not. All I heard was yelling

I had three pounds of this really good bread in the car. I was eating tiny pieces of bread because I was hungry

The discussion stopped when we got home. I was still in the car while everyone was outside. As I went to take another piece of bread, a cockroach crawled out the bread bag and just kept on walking.

I still ate the piece


but anyway, cockroaches to me represent the tiny problems that are part of something much bigger.

I'm not saying i only see them after a discussion, because that's not true. But I'm just saying that I don't remember a discussion that didn't involve me seeing a cockroach at some point

whenever I see one, I just do what I always do: ignore it.

if I kill it, there will be more anyway

unless we resolve the problem...

we fumigate, i mean.

-rafa