HELLO: 10 Things Every Women Should Pack in their Carry-on

Going on a business trip or finally checking off that city that you've never been to off your bucket list? It may be a short visit but here's a checklist for every women to pack in their carry-on.

1. A travel size sewing kit. Especially if you're traveling for business, this may come in handy. I went on a trip with a college campus organization and had a colleague

HELLO: 10 Things to Pack for Studying Abroad

You're adventure is about to take off sooner than you think! Now that you're done with your application, paperwork, fees, and other ten thousand things that you had to do, you need to make sure that you have everything that you need in that luggage of yours! Either it's for a week or for a month, here's a few things you should double check before you go.

1. Copies of your travel documents and other important documents. Make sure you have copies of your passport, health insurance card, copy of travel

HELLO: Packing List

So, I travel a lot. At least a couple times a year out of state with my family or something involved with college.

I'm the type of person that likes to make sure that I have everything planned out when I'm packing, from outfits per day (and night) to shoes to accessories to everything!

I hate it when I forget something and I have to survive without it until I get back home or I have to go out and buy it, but I'm sure anyone does. One time, I went on a three day trip without - wait for it -

HELLO: Belize Study Abroad - Day 6

Today we had two bead session at San Pedro High. We had one workshop at 11 AM and another at 6 PM.

We went to the high school around 10:30 AM to set-up. This time, we were located in a bigger, better room, with longer tables, and lots of chairs. The class was structures in a "U" shape.

We had a full class of high school girls. There was about 15 girls that was there.

HELLO: Belize Study Abroad - Day 5

Busy day today! Today's itinerary:

1. Go to the Radio Show at 7 AM

2. Breakfast

3. Get supplies ready and teach a workshop class at San Pedro High at 10 AM

4. Pack more supplies and teach the next workshop at Holy Cross at 12 PM

5. Regular class at 7 PM

We woke up really early to get there in time at the Radio Show. We were there at 7 AM sharp. The radio show was a small area with one small office and a small space for the show with some TV's, computers, and cameras,

There was two men who were the radio hosts and one man

HELLO: Belize Study Abroad - Day 4

Today was perhaps the most relaxing and laziest day out of the entire trip, well, for us business students anyways. I did enjoyed it but if you know me, I like staying busy! Productive days are my favorite days.

First thing first. get breakfast, We had breakfast at a place called Lily's. It's alongside the beach. It feels so nice to wake up and walk down the beach. It was such a gorgeous day, hot, very hot like every other day, but beautiful! It's a

HELLO: Belize Study Abroad - Day 3

So today was another long day!

And this was the beautiful morning that I woke up to. Wow. I can wake up to this everyday.

My roomies and I had a delicious breakfast next door where we were

HELLO: Cherokee, NC - Family Weekend Trip

Hey, hey everyone! 

It's been awhile since I've updated my blog and I have promised myself several times about updating every other day or at least every week, but that's been very unsuccessful. See, I just started a new job and have been studying non-stop for my accounting summer class. So, I've been staying very busy, like always.

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago I went on a short vaca' with my fambam to Cherokee, NC. It's a usual weekend vacation for us and we would go there every couple months or so.

We would always stay at the Harrah's Cherokee Casino Hotel because my parents have a membership and members get great deals! Anyways, if you have never been to Cherokee Casino, there are a few things you can do, other than gamble, of course. They have an indoor and an outside pool, a beautiful (and expensive) spa, and there's a river that runs right there at the casino. Very beautiful and you can walk down to the river or even fish, I've seen people done before.

There's also an arcade! If there's two things that my siblings love staying at the hotel, it's because of the pool and the arcade. Oh, and if take a close look at the Deal or No Deal screen behind me, we won 400 tickets! The case we selected had the highest amount! Woot woot!

There are several places you can dine. There's Chefs Stage Buffet, a Paula Dean's restaurant, and my family's favorite, Brio Tuscan Grille. Delicious food! I always order their Italian cuisines.

There's also tons and tons of fun excitement that you can do in Cherokee. On our second day, we went to the river that my family loves coming to every time we're down in Cherokee. You can fish there, there's picnic tables for folks to have lunch, you can go tubing or just play in the river. Oh, you can also feed the ducks there, which we always go buy bread before hitting up the river because the kids love playing with the ducks.

Although the river is cold! I could only dip my feet in for 10 seconds! If only it was a very hot sunny day then it would be perfect to play in the river.

Afterwards, there's a place called Cherokee Fun Park that has an arcade, two different courses of go-karts, miniature golf, and other small activities for children. Since last time we visited we rode the go-karts, this time we wanted to try out the miniature golf course. I haven't played in the longest time but I still got some skills that I'm proud to claim!

Anyways, this park is beautiful!

They got fishes in the lake where you can feed them.

Such a beautiful scenery indeed! It was so nice to play miniature golf out there.

After our miniature golf fun, we went to the downtown plaza where there's a neat water fountain for the kids to play. Surrounding the water fountain are small tourist shops, an ice cream shop, and other neat stores. The neat thing that the kids love playing at the fountain is that it shoots out water and mist every now and then, the water is not too cold, and there's props like rocks for the children to play.

Here's a picture of us at the pool back at the Harrah's Casino, after our long adventure. We still can't get enough of the water. This is a beautiful but small outdoor pool that they just build this past Winter. It's only 3 ft deep. Yes, really tiny, primarily for children, but it's great that it's not too deep. The indoor pool is about 6 ft deep. But one feature that I love that they added to the outdoor pool is a bar and the food there is oh-so-yummy!

If you ever get the chance to go and you're chillin' down the pool, order their quesadillas! It's to die for! Oh, and their margaritas, fantastic as well!

Well, that wraps up my Cherokee, NC adventures. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

HELLO: Belize Study Abroad - Day 2

Day 2 in Belize was one of the most epic day ever!

We drove an hour to our destination from where we were staying. But, we also had a tour of places we saw and passed by.

For instance, we passed by a river that goes directly to the ocean.

Here is a tree known as snake tree because the vines are wrapped around the tree and they look like snakes.

Here we are at Altun Ha. Where the Mayan Temples are standing today. This is the first part of our adventure. 

The whole crew. Majority of the students were education majors and then there was my Enactus team and I, which consists of 4 members, who were business majors.

Here is what used to be a part of a temple. The only thing that's left are the staircases.

Our tour guide talking about the building structures and the clay that the Mayan people used.

Here is a tree that the Mayan people believed that the leaves from this tree can cure bruises, cuts, and other pains like arthritis.

Standing right in the plaza, well, what used to be anyways. It was huge, amazing, astonishing! Something you have to see with your own two eyes. The temples were beautiful.

 Here we are still on the ground. They might not look huge in the picture, but I assure you, they are big!

Here I am on the first temple that we climbed. You can see another temple behind me.

From our view on the first temple we were on, you can get a clear view of the Sun God Temple.

Behind the first temple that we started our adventure was this structure. Can you see it? It's the face of the Rain God.

This used to be the lake where the Mayan people used to bathe and washed their clothes. But today, the river no longer exist and it's been dried up for a long time.

Here I am on top of the second temple that we climbed up. There were so many stairs. They sure had quite the exercise back then.

Here I am standing in front of the Sun God Temple. This was the biggest temple of them all, of course. It was definitely scary looking from the top!

Here is the structure that the Mayan people made to represent the Sun God.

Here we are on top of the Sun God Temple. It doesn't look high from my angle but it was definitely scary being on the very edge.

Here I am sitting on top of the place where back in the days they did their human sacrifices to the gods.

Now this is the stairs that we went down from. Just imagine the stairs with no rails, just the stairs themselves. Now that's scary. Other students in my group used their butts to go down the stairs. They were afraid to walk down.

Anyways, after our great adventure into the Maya history, we had the traditional Belizean lunch (my favorite meal in Belize): stewed chicken, rice and beans, and coleslaw. We also did tourist shopping in their little shopping plaza that was at the site. Anyways, if you want to learn more about the Mayan people and their culture in Belize, click here.

He headed out back on the tour bus after seeing the temples. We went for another hour drive somewhere deeper into the jungle. Our next destination and adventure was cave tubing! I've been tubing before but never cave tubing! I couldn' wait!

Here we are. At our destination. When we reached the tubing location we went to gather our tubes and headlights. After another 25 minute hike down to the cave location, we were ready to go tubing! The caves were amazing!

It was an hour and a half long and about 6 to 7 people were assigned to one instructor.

Sorry if the pictures look a little blurry or have blur spots on them. It started to rain on us. Thankfully half of our time was spent in the caves.

Here we go! Going into the caves!

As you can see in this picture, it's pitch black without my camera flash. Also, you can see that our tubing instructor is pulling our entire group with a string tied onto his feet! That's something I've never seen. Also, there were seven of us in the group with our tubes all tied together and all the instructors has to pull and push us throughout our cave tubing. Our instructor said that it's great exercise though.

Here is the inside of the caves. It's covered with limestone formations. As we venture the cave, there were all kinds of shapes and structures that the limestone created.

There's the other group and the other instructor next to us. I believe we have about 5 or 6 huge groups that went tubing.

In the caves, we saw bats and their little houses. It was so cool! I've never seen one in person before.

Yes, they had a small waterfall in the cave! Too bad we couldn't touch it even though we were so close to it.

We're reaching the end of the cave. Finally, the light!

Here's the cave that we just exited. Right when we went outside it started raining on us. Which, even though it's surprising in Belize, we were kind of cold. Cold and tubing in the rain, not so fun.

Here we are outside of the river. This river was used by the Mayan people. They used this river to travel the lands and their trades. When it got dark, they would camp inside of the caves sometimes.

Tubing in the rain, but first, let me take a selfie, and jeez, these life jackets stinks like majority of them always do.

More limestone formations.

Here's another location where some bats are located. See those tiny holes within the rock? Well, that's where they live.

Here we are at the end of our cave tubing experience. It was such a wonderful experience and if you have never done it before, I recommend that you should try it! It's definitely different from your regular tubing experience. Well, I want to thank our awesome tour guides that drove us to see the different sights, showed us the Mayan temples, and to our tubing instructor who was very knowledgeable as well. What a exciting adventure Day 2 was. I really got to learn more about the Belizean cutlure and they have such a fascinating culture as well as their traditions.