My new home

Hello everybody, I have been suffering some problems with the sink of the kitchen last few months, something caused by my upstairs neighbours who have been rebuilding their flat.
To solve those problems it is necessary to open up my kitchen wall and remove an old pipe to replace it for a new one and there is where the problem comes cause this is gonna last at least three days, and three days in Puerto Rico and talking about fixing a kitchen could mean a week or so.
My landlord offered me to move to my neighbours flat upstairs(they agree to lend me their flat this week, since it is their fault), but it was all up to me.
So last thursday I came to take a look to that flat and I could not believe what I saw, the flat has been rebuilt one year ago and nobody has lived here since that.
It is brand new, 2 floor flat plus an extra big terrace in the third with an amazing views of San Juan's bay.
AC included running all the time(it is even cold), modern bathroom and kitchen(with one of this huge modern fridge which does make ice and filters water), it does even have a little lift to carry stuff from the kitchen to the terrace...
After that I didn't hesitate to make the "effort" and move my stuff here to spend the week in this palace! It is like be living in a hotel.
Of course I am telling my landlord how taugh it is for me to move my old appartment but I am doing the "effort" just for her to repair it :)


And now I am sitting in the terrace with the computer hearing music and feeling more bohemian!
And now I am thinking about to drop in my old place this week and try to screw the rebuilding work so I can stay here!!

The longer I stay the better it's gonna be so lets see how long does the building work downstairs last...

Cat life

If I were a cat I'd love to live in Old San Juan.
There are cats living in most of the streets all over the world. Ok, if there is a chinese restaurant close, there is a rumour around saying cats disappear....dunno why. I think I never tried cat food and chinese sweet and sour pork tastes like pork and not anything else for me and so far there isn't a chinese restaurant here so they don't have to be scared.
They are used to live in the streets pretty well, it doesn't matter if the weather is hot or cold they manage to spend their lives so great, if it's cold they always find a warm car engine to sleep close to and if it's hot there's always a windy dark spot to lie down on. Besides food stuff is easy for them cause they are used to eat almost everything. Since I have had cats I can tell you they can be so fancy and decide not to eat one cat food brand but, in the other hand they enjoy hunting and eating flies... here I've seen them hunting lizards, frogs (coquís) and since I've never seen a rat around I guess they have something to do with that.
But I have noticed that here in OSJ they do live much better, they are the kings. There is a NGO which takes care of them when they are sick, feed them, vaccinate them and watch out for them to be safe.
This organization sterilizes some of the cats to keep the population under control as well. I don't know if they are being succeed cause there are hundreds of them.
All these cats look so happy here, you can find them sleeping on or under a car, in the sidewalk, over the grass and they don't bother to run if you walk close to them.....
I'll upload some pictures to try to show how the neighbourhood is but u'd be here to feel it cause they are much more than what the picture shows, now and since 3 weeks ago or so there is a cat which spends its time in my building (it handle to come in jumping the front door). At the beginning it was so shy and try to hide every time I went out my place, it could be linked with the fact that Marta was here with me and she scared cats, hehe, now it does not move when I go out, it keeps there, staring at me, asking for food and sometimes it tries to sneak into my place too!
Sizes: there are all kind of cat sizes, from the puertorican size (so so fat, probably a cat which eats at McDonalds or Wendy's very often) to the skinny cats which seem Victoria Beckam fans...

Oh my god!

Good morning to everyone!
As I used to do in my old blog I'm gonna try to write the posts for so on in english.
I said I'm gonna try cause, as you'll be able to realize, I am pretty bad using Shakespeare's language so I hope I can improve it using it more often.
Today I was thinking to write a post about religion in Puerto Rico. I discovered during last few weeks that religious believes here, are very different than what you can find in Spain, at least it is very different than what I think you can find there.
In the island and because of those 400 years they shared under the spanish corona, Roman Catholic Church is the most popular belief and, as we can see in most of countries, here you can find churches of the following religions as well: United Brethren, Presbyterian, Methodist

, Disciples of Christ, Congregational, Christian, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostal, Church of Jesus, Lutheran, and Christian, Missionary Alliance......
Because of the arrival of african slaves and their mix with the Taino indians which were the original inhabitants of Borinquen(Puerto Rico). There is a presence of traditional african religion in here. Puerto Rico is located very close to la española and religions which use Vudu (specially in haiti) are somehow present here as well.
Besides those I've seen a lot of small churches everywhere, all of them with different names and owners.... You read it correctly, owners. This churches and its believes belong to someone, usually a company owned by a person who is the "pastor".
It was weird to see that usually these "pastores" make a lot of money with its religion business.
During the weekends the churchs and its parking lots are crowded of people who are afraid of something they did or did not and want to clean their mind of bad feelings praying and paying.
There is a story about a guy who founded a church, got rich and now lives like a king in Florida, his children are now taking care of the business(church) he built.
It is a place to pray and to have fun. In the building there is plenty of staff to spend an afternoon; museum, play room, restaurant, cinema,....

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. "
Aldous Huxley