September 13, 2024 • 43 mins
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I’m so excited to share with you all my trip to Cuba! I’m sharing what I experienced, saw and learned and what it all meant to me! I also answer the questions you guys sent me so enjoy!
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Speaker 2 (03:03):
Welcome back to the Overcome for podcast. You guys, thank
you guys so much for choosing to watch and listen
to this episode today. I'm so excited because I am
going to be talking about my life changing experience in Cuba,
how my trip went, and you guys, I'm just so
overwhelmed with so much gratitude, and I'm just happy. I'm
(03:29):
happy that I was able to go to experience that. Obviously,
I've traveled different places, but clearly nothing has impacted me
more than Cuba. And honestly, it is just it is
very humbling. It is a life changing experience. So I
want to be able to talk about that with you guys,
(03:50):
see maybe if you are interested and shed some light
on what exactly is happening over there, because it generally
changed my life. I was out there for almost two weeks.
I was staying at a hotel for the first couple days,
and then I went to go stay in Alkisa, which
(04:12):
is a little pueblito right there in Artemisa, like thirty
forty minutes away out of Habana. And let me tell
you well, when I first stayed in Habana, it is gorgeous, beautiful,
the architecture. You feel like you are time traveling like
it's you're stuck in the I don't even know what
(04:34):
time era or age this would be, but you still
see people riding on horse carriages like that is their
form of travel. There's like these called BC taxis where
their taxis are, people on bicycles, what else. You just
see people. I'm going to kind of go everywhere in
(04:56):
the sense because as I go and I remember everything,
I I do remember like a lot of people walking
without shoes, barefoot. Some people liked to be barefoot, like
there would be kids playing in the little streets playing soccer, baseball.
I saw a lot of pregnant women with babies, babies
(05:20):
without diapers on, no underwear, nothing like they just and
it's so sad because you see people living over here
and they obviously it's a luxury. Honestly, living in the
United States is a luxury, and it is a blessing.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You do not know.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And this is probably gonna be controversial and people are
gonna probably hate me for this, but it is a
legit blessing to live in the United States and to
be born here and raised here and have the opportunities
that we have because in a country like that, they yes,
it is a communist country. They are given water, they're
given power, they're given certain things, but also limited. You
(06:03):
go into a grocery store, there's grocery stores don't even
exist because they don't have things on the shelves. There's
two water bottles that they can sell and that's it.
There's no lady like hygienic hygiene products. There's no wipes,
there's no diapers, there's no baby food. When you go
into a restaurant, they always they always let you know like, oh,
(06:26):
this is what we this is what we're able to
feed you today. So if I wanted croquettas one day
and I would be like, oh I croqutta. No, there's
no croquettas. There's only petugaaio rice beans and that's it,
which is fine for me. And I've gotten that question.
(06:47):
I asked you guys on Instagram questions about uh, if
you guys had any questions for me about Cuba, And
one of them was what did I eat when I
was out there? And let me tell you, I'd never
consider myself a picky person until I actually got to Cuba,
and I felt very pushed out of my comfort zone
because I don't. Their main like food is rice beans,
(07:11):
which I can eat, but they have a lot of pork.
They eat a lot of yeah, mainly pork. They eat
chicken thighs. They they I'm very picky. I cannot I ooh,
sorry for my personal preference. I prefer to have chicken breast,
which is again a luxury over there. Like it's very
(07:33):
you know, it's kind of hard to access and cow
if you, I guess, like if you kill a cow
over there, it's kind of like a law thing, like
you can't. So they have very little to none like
riss there, And it was a cool fact. Ropavia, which
is one of the dishes there in Cuba, is made
(07:53):
out of horse, which kind of made me sad because
I've never had horse. But I didn't eat it. But
again it kind of just shows you the neces say
that and like what they're limited to. Stayed there for
a couple of days, stayed at the hotel, which at
some point for me it was a blessing obviously I
had WiFi, but then I felt guilty. It's just the
(08:17):
type of person that I am. There's people out in
the streets, their houses are built out of like nothing.
Some of them don't even have roofs. They have like
aluminum the some houses were flooding. There was one day
we were gonna go eat at a restaurant like aut
A Beach, and we couldn't because the current was coming
(08:38):
over the walls and it was flooding into the city
and into their houses. And people are just sitting there
like like so normal, and they were just sitting outside
looking and watching and there's nothing else to do. There's
literally nothing else to do but to sit there, drink beer,
play dominoes, and that's it. They don't have to technically
(09:00):
at a job because they're basically given everything. And it's
really sad to me because when I was giving out stuff,
I had the opportunity and I'm lucky and I'm blessed
enough to be able to take four big, big luggages
full of medicines because they don't have medicine, all the
(09:20):
stuff that they need, necessities, clothes, from over comfort, just
to give. And whenever I ran out, I would give money,
and they're like, we don't need money, like we can't
do anything with this money. Their currency they're pricing is
so insane, like for one pack of eggs is ten
(09:40):
American dollars, which for them depending on let me say,
let me do the math, let me do that really
quick ten times. Like let's say that the bessels at
three fifty three fifty times, that's like thirty three five
hundred vessels, which is and that's not easy. Like doctors
(10:04):
make twenty dollars a month and that's basically what they
live off of over there. So it kind of puts
everything into into perspective. They're very limited. They can't you know,
it's not accessible. And I'm so grateful for this journey
and for being able to go and visit and really
put things into perspective because it was just it was
(10:29):
just sad, Like it was sad for me to see,
you know, like little kids like they're they were playing
with rocks, they were playing with old, old, little deflated
balls and that's their normal life. Like and I remember
being able to give things out and I took a
bunch of candies, Vibe Relax, I took a bunch of candies.
(10:54):
I took candies, I took toys, and their faces like
they look like wow, like it was Christmas for them
and for me, I'm just I love kids. I genuinely
love kids, and I fell in love with this one
little boy who just looked at me with his beautiful
blue crystal eyes. He was with Ritho, and he just
looked like, oh my God, like thank you, like his
(11:15):
eyes lit up. And every day ever since that i've
been back, I've been praying to God. I'm like, God,
just please bring some justice to Cuba, bring some type
of I don't know, something like they need. They're in need.
I had conversations with people. I spoke with a mom
who took her son to the doctor because he had
constant headaches, and they sent him home because they didn't
(11:38):
have anything for him. They didn't have ibuprofen, they didn't
have tylan all. They didn't like, we're sorry, we don't
have anything to give you guys. And for me, that
was so heartbreaking because I can easily get in my
car and drive two minutes or even get it ubered,
door dashed or whatever, get medicine. It's so easy for us,
and they struggle and I don't know, well, I just
(12:01):
I really didn't notice how much I take life for
granted until I went to Cuba. And I really recommend
everybody going there to really just go with the open
heart and mind. People were asking me, like do you
think I should go do Someone asked me, do you
think your siblings can do it? And I said no,
(12:23):
I feel like my siblings' hearts are so big that
it would just be too heartbreaking, Like they would probably
never want to leave. And I generally, at some point,
even with the power outages, like the government could turn
off the power whenever they want, there'd be times where
I would go to sleep without taking a shower because
the water would be turned off, you know, And obviously
(12:44):
it's humid. It's like the air you feel sticky, you
feel gross, you're sweating. All day was nasty, and I
was like, wow, like thank you God. Like I came home,
I was like, thank you God for this home, thank
you for my ac thank you for this, thank you
for that. And it's really just opened my eyes and
you know, really learn to appreciate life. And I think
(13:05):
about them all every day. And I've gotten to the
point where I'm really praying and I'm really considering, like
i want to open a foundation, i want to end
a certain I want to close something and start something new.
To be able to be a blessing to help foster
children or you know, people in need like Cuba. I
(13:27):
don't know. That's just the dream of my heart. I
want to open a nonprofit over organization and really put
my dedication into this, because again it is just you
don't know what life is like until you go visit Cuba.
We're going to go on a quick break and we'll
be right back to talk more about Cuba.
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
I asked you guys on Instagram if you guys I
had any questions about my trip to Cuba, and I'm
going to go ahead and answer them now. Okay, my
family and I are going in November and want to
help out. Where do you recommend? Okay, I recommend taking
(18:18):
a lot of medications. Medications, first aid, kits, bug spray,
do you order it? Toothpaste? I remember talking to someone
and they said that they spent a whole week trying
to find toothpaste and I had it in my luggage
and I was like, you should have told me I
had it and I had given it away to somebody else,
(18:41):
and I was like whatever. Anyways, things like that personal
hygiene razors and I would I feel like anywhere, I
feel like there's not one specific place where they don't
need it. Like they're all on the same class level.
Where just I necessary that and it's just if you
(19:04):
have the if you have the time and the funds
and to give something, please do, please, please do. Can
anyone visit Cuba? What is the process? I was able
to visit Cuba through UH Tourism. I got my visa
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for over there. It wasn't it wasn't hard for me. Obviously,
if your family is from Cuba, you're able to say
you have your family visit. But the only thing is
is that and I didn't have this problem, but people
do have problems bringing stuff. If you're gonna bring stuff
for the refugees, you have to kind of act normal.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In Mexico, when you guys go through the airport, you
have to press like a red button or a green button,
and if you get the green button, you're good to go.
If you get the red button, they have to check
all of your luggages. Luckily, it's kind of like that,
but without the buttons. In Cuba, they just kind of
just look at you and they'll let you go. If not,
(20:05):
you have to get all of your luggage checked. And
if they check your luggages and they see all the
stuff in there. They can either confiscate it and take
it for themselves because they need it as well, or
they will charge you a certain fee. So at that
point it's all by risk and fingers crossed and by
(20:26):
prayers of God that you get passed and they don't
check your bags. Okay, how did you get money there?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
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Did you take cash to exchange it? Debit card? Okay?
So you're not allowed to open your bak accounts over there.
You open them, you can open them. It's just you
can't transfer the internet. It just won't let you. The
apps are very limited over there, like TikTok does not
exist over there, which was I was so grateful for.
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So before leaving, I took cash out in Miami because
I had a label in Miami. I would go and
exchange and change the currency at four Americans. It is
depending on certain restaurants, it may be better to pay
in their dollar than our dollar. Either way, it's a lot.
It's a lot lot cheaper. And for example, like a
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plate of lobster, if you're out here in boiling crab
boiling crabs, lobsters are like what fifty bucks over there?
I got lobster almost every day for seven to ten
bucks with a plate of rice, beans and whatever. And
obviously I'm not gonna I would never want to take
advantage of that, but it is what was available. But yeah,
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so I would definitely recommend going to change it before
you get there and changing it before you come back,
because they do not accept any Cuban dollars in the airport,
so don't go buying. Don't go buy souvenirs at the
airport with Cuban dollars because they won't take it. They
only take American dollars. That was a fun fact. I
(22:06):
figured out when I got there. What was there something
you couldn't find in Cuba that you can find here anywhere?
And honestly, anything as simple as water, Like it's so
easy to find water here and it's so hard to
find it there. There was one time where I wanted
(22:26):
to make them seviche, and obviously they don't have a
lot of tomatoes. Their tomatoes are like this small, onions
are this small, bell peppers are this small. They don't
have any chilis. So I would honestly say, everything is
so hard to find over there. One of my friends
had gotten her period and she had to use paper,
(22:49):
towel wipes, toilet paper, which also again is like we
can't use so much toilet paper because this is the
only toilet paper that we have left. So you guys
can kind of see where it's at, and you know,
prepare yourselves, bring your own things. Also bring stuff to
give if you are able to. Why did you decide
to go to Cuba? Cuba has always been on the
(23:12):
list to go. I love traveling in general. I was
going for birthday, and then it was somebody's birthday, and
then I just wanted to go in general. I extended
my stage just to hang around and you know, take
(23:33):
in the culture and experience it for myself, and I
definitely do not regret it. It was the connection I feel.
I felt so connected with people. My phone didn't work
a lot of the time, and when I did, I
would even just not be on my phone, like if
I had signal. I'm just like, I do not care
(23:55):
about this stuff right now, Like I'm enjoying my time
being off of my phone, talking to these people, hearing
their stories, knowing you know who they are and what
they do. And honestly, it was just it was so
full of purpose and again I'm so so so grateful.
Did you try a Cuban cigar? I did not. I'm
not a huge cigar. I feel like that's more of
(24:18):
like a boy thing. I would be down. I just
it wasn't for me. I don't really care. But I
did visit the I think I believe it's Vigniales where
they created the first cigars. Over there, and it was beautiful.
They have like a whole jungle. I definitely recommend it.
That's like two hours from Havana. You can go in
the jungles, you can go in the caves, and there's
(24:40):
like waterfalls and all that beautiful stuff as well. Did
you feel safe, Yes, I felt safe. I'm just a
very pre cautious person. Anyways. I always have my purse
on me, always make sure that it's the doors are locked,
all that stuff. But over there, there was no crime.
They have no guns, they have no weapons, they don't
have anything that they can.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Harm you with.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's pretty much it. I like, if they were to
hurt me, it's like a huge fine. Obviously I wouldn't,
you know, snitch or whatever, but it is very like
a huge precaution, Like if they're surrounded by Americans. They
know they have to be very, very very careful, So yes,
(25:24):
I did feel safe. How many days slash weeks do
you recommend going? So my original stay was for a week.
I stayed a couple of days more. I loved it.
I generally just felt like I wanted to be there.
But you cannot go to Cuba unless you have a
flight back, so they need all that information as well,
So make sure you get a round trip because they
(25:44):
need to know when you're coming back. You can't stay there.
But I do definitely recommend going for like a week,
A week and a half really depends. If you're like me,
you might just fall in love with it and want
to stay longer. But yeah, I feel like that that's
enough time to go ahead and visit. I definitely do
want to go back, just because I feel like I
want to go visit and tour the rest of the
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island and get to know it. And you know what's crazy.
There's this place called in Malecon right, and it's the
there's a wall, and then there's the ocean you're staring
across and you could see Miami like you could see
the lights of Miami. It is ninety miles away from Havana, Cuba.
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So they're just Cubans there standing there looking and literally
dreaming of just going ninety miles to Miami. And it's
literally physically not I don't want to say impossible, because
there's been people that made the lanchas and they go
and they go on the boat and they've made it.
Some people don't make it and to go seek refuge
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in the United States, and it was just, I don't know.
Coming back home, I would see it as like, Wow,
this is a this is a blessing to be able
to say that I'm born and raised here in the
United States. Obviously I love being Latina, but again, like
I feel like a lot of people take the United
States for granted and it's not like it's nothing like
(27:11):
any other country. And I just I'm grateful.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
I'm very grateful.
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right back to talk more about Cuiva compared.
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All right, you guys, welcome back. The people were very nice.
They know how to party. They party, they party, they
drink a lot. They if you're Latina like me, Mexican specifically,
they have very limited tequila over there. I was on
host Ecuador and it was just you know, if you know,
(31:57):
you know, it's just not the best, but it is
very I had to try other things. I had to
try ram I had to try I think it's called
Havana Club. Their their main alcohol over there beers. I
stopped drinking beer started drinking beer over there again because
there was nothing else to drink. So I would show them, like,
(32:19):
this is how you drink like a Micha Lada. I
would put the limon, I would put the salt, not
a micella, but I would just like like very very nice,
and they loved it. There was at a point also
where I cut the mangos and I had a little
tahen bottle and they don't have nothing the piicanta over there,
so I was also stressed. I was like, fuck, like
I need spicy food like bad, and I know I
should have brought my tapapia bottle, but whatever I had
(32:40):
my tahen I had found it in the middle of
the trip and I gave mango co on limoni tahen
and everybody loved it and they were all spiced out.
I'm like, you guys think it's spicy, but yeah, I
definitely as far as food, as far as the ambiance,
people being nice, like it's always a good time. They're
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the sweetest people if you just sit down and have
a conversation with them and not being like scared or
being I feel like you have to humble yourself and
meet them there and kind of just listen to them.
You'll get along with them. How dangerous it is over there?
And anytime do you feel unsafe? I honestly, I don't
remember feeling unsafe. I felt pretty okay where I was
staying at even when I was in the Pueblo, Like
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people don't come like they mind their own business. People
are doing the thing. Yes, people stare at you, but
you're also American, like you know when you're American, like
people know you're not a part of them. But it
never felt dangerous or unsafe, even when the power went out,
even when there was no water, Like I just felt
like I was just a normal, normal day, normal lives.
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So no, I don't feel like it's dangerous. The only
thing is that when I was giving stuff away, like
they would try to reach in and grab something else.
And that's the only only time obviously, Like I personally
would keep my phone away when I was giving stuff away,
just in case, but other than that, like, no one's
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gonna go and steal your phone, no one's gonna go
and grab your purse. Like it's just it is what
it is. So it just again, I didn't fail unsafe.
What do you feel about the political climate. I don't
want to talk too much about it because I also
want to be able to go back to Cuba, but
I do want to say that it is very unfair.
It's very unfair. Like the people that work with the
(34:34):
government have these big, gorgeous houses with security guards in front,
they're gated, and then you drive five minutes away and
then you see these people's houses, little little small houses,
cement houses with no roofs, sometimes just sitting outside with nothing.
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And these people that work for the government have these gorgeous,
gorgeous houses, cut plan trees. Everything looks so presentable and beautiful.
And the embassies were just gorgeous as well. It is
a little sad, It's very sad. And again, like I
would love to, I don't know somehow do more. I
(35:18):
feel like what I took wasn't enough. It's never enough,
Like I feel like, damn, like I even manipulated or
gasled myself. I'm like, you could have done more, Like
what the fuck are you doing? Like why didn't you
bring more? But then I realized it's like you know what,
like I can't. I can't provide for the whole country,
at least not right now. I mean, I don't know.
Maybe one day I can. I'm able to, but it's
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just it is unfair, and I want to go visit
other countries that are maybe in the same situation, like
you know, Venezuela, Russia are also communist countries. Puerto Rico
is always out of power as well. So I just
have a heart and I want to be able to
be a blessing to people as well, and I think
more than any thing. Another question was what did it
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teach you? I think it just taught me how to
value life, Like I stopped caring about TikTok and all
the drama that happens on TikTok or whatever. I come back,
I turn on my phone and I'm just like, wow,
this is really what everybody cares about, like the drama
about you know, social status, and it's just like no,
(36:23):
like you go when you're there, it's just such simple life,
Like you eat food, you play games, you drink beer,
and you hang out and you're just grateful to God
that you got to make it another day with what
you had. And again, obviously like I had more things,
I was provided with more things, and I was able
to take my own things. But seeing and if you
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were to be in their position as well, waiting for
the possibility of their chance to get a family member
to make it to the States, to get parole and
to be able to claim you as a resident, like
you have to think about that. I would ask people,
you know, how have you ever decided that you wanted
to go on the boat or have you ever decided
to go you know, in another way of shape or form.
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And yeah, there's people that have jumped on the boat,
jumped in the water three four times, and obviously they
couldn't make it. Then there's people whose daughters have had
to leave them, like they go and they make it
through and they don't see their families for a long
time until that family member gets their residency in the
United States and then they're able to claim them as
(37:29):
a refugee or whatever. So I think, more than anything,
I've learned to appreciate my life like I could be
so angry or I could be so stressed out about this,
this or that, and then I think about Cuba and
what I experience and it's just like I really have
no reason to complain. I really don't. And I took
(37:52):
a moment to realize, like, wow, you know, when you know,
when people would tell you like you're not going to
finish eating that, there's people in Africa, there's kids in
Africans that are starving. And I really live those moments
because I would get fool I would get so full
and I would feel so guilty leaving the food and
I'd be like no, like let me just let me
eat it, because then they would see it as disrespectful
(38:14):
if I were to give my food to somebody, and
like you know, it would be offensible to them. And
I didn't want that to happen either. But it's like damn, like, yeah,
there's people out here starving, really starving. There's people that
go to sleep hungry and they're not able to eat
because they weren't able to make money to go, I
don't know, go get a chicken or find rice or whatever.
(38:37):
But overall, it was a beautiful experience. And again, I
really think that if you have the opportunity, please go.
And I really just hope that one day I'm able
to go back and to be a blessing and to
open my foundation and really, if anything, I come back
(38:57):
and I want to share with you guys that life
is so short, and life is so little. It's very limited,
and I just would hope that it's not taken for granted.
I feel like God has a plan and one day,
one day Cuba will be free and everyone can live
(39:18):
a happy life. That is my dream. That's my dream
for the Cubans and people that live in these certain circumstances,
certain circumstances. But I think more than anything, I've learned
to appreciate life and just thank God for you know
(39:39):
what I have now and really share my experience with
you guys. And yeah, that's pretty much it. I wanted
to thank you guys so much for watching and listening
to this. I hope it was some type of inspiration
for you guys. If you guys have any more questions,
please feel free to message me on Instagram and I
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will be more than happy to share anything with you guys.
I also have a highlight there if you guys want
to see my trip to Cuba, everywhere that I visited
and yeah, so I will see you guys next Tuesday
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Welcome back to the Overcome for podcast. You guys, thank
you guys so much for choosing to watch and listen
to this episode today. I'm so excited because I am
going to be talking about my life changing experience in Cuba,
how my trip went, and you guys, I'm just so
overwhelmed with so much gratitude, and I'm just happy. I'm
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happy that I was able to go to experience that. Obviously,
I've traveled different places, but clearly nothing has impacted me
more than Cuba. And honestly, it is just it is
very humbling. It is a life changing experience. So I
want to be able to talk about that with you guys,
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see maybe if you are interested and shed some light
on what exactly is happening over there, because it generally
changed my life. I was out there for almost two weeks.
I was staying at a hotel for the first couple days,
and then I went to go stay in Alkisa, which
(04:12):
is a little pueblito right there in Artemisa, like thirty
forty minutes away out of Habana. And let me tell
you well, when I first stayed in Habana, it is gorgeous, beautiful,
the architecture. You feel like you are time traveling like
it's you're stuck in the I don't even know what
(04:34):
time era or age this would be, but you still
see people riding on horse carriages like that is their
form of travel. There's like these called BC taxis where
their taxis are, people on bicycles, what else. You just
see people. I'm going to kind of go everywhere in
(04:56):
the sense because as I go and I remember everything,
I I do remember like a lot of people walking
without shoes, barefoot. Some people liked to be barefoot, like
there would be kids playing in the little streets playing soccer, baseball.
I saw a lot of pregnant women with babies, babies
(05:20):
without diapers on, no underwear, nothing like they just and
it's so sad because you see people living over here
and they obviously it's a luxury. Honestly, living in the
United States is a luxury, and it is a blessing.
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And this is probably gonna be controversial and people are
gonna probably hate me for this, but it is a
legit blessing to live in the United States and to
be born here and raised here and have the opportunities
that we have because in a country like that, they yes,
it is a communist country. They are given water, they're
given power, they're given certain things, but also limited. You
(06:03):
go into a grocery store, there's grocery stores don't even
exist because they don't have things on the shelves. There's
two water bottles that they can sell and that's it.
There's no lady like hygienic hygiene products. There's no wipes,
there's no diapers, there's no baby food. When you go
into a restaurant, they always they always let you know like, oh,
(06:26):
this is what we this is what we're able to
feed you today. So if I wanted croquettas one day
and I would be like, oh I croqutta. No, there's
no croquettas. There's only petugaaio rice beans and that's it,
which is fine for me. And I've gotten that question.
(06:47):
I asked you guys on Instagram questions about uh, if
you guys had any questions for me about Cuba, And
one of them was what did I eat when I
was out there? And let me tell you, I'd never
consider myself a picky person until I actually got to Cuba,
and I felt very pushed out of my comfort zone
because I don't. Their main like food is rice beans,
(07:11):
which I can eat, but they have a lot of pork.
They eat a lot of yeah, mainly pork. They eat
chicken thighs. They they I'm very picky. I cannot I ooh,
sorry for my personal preference. I prefer to have chicken breast,
which is again a luxury over there. Like it's very
(07:33):
you know, it's kind of hard to access and cow
if you, I guess, like if you kill a cow
over there, it's kind of like a law thing, like
you can't. So they have very little to none like
riss there, And it was a cool fact. Ropavia, which
is one of the dishes there in Cuba, is made
(07:53):
out of horse, which kind of made me sad because
I've never had horse. But I didn't eat it. But
again it kind of just shows you the neces say
that and like what they're limited to. Stayed there for
a couple of days, stayed at the hotel, which at
some point for me it was a blessing obviously I
had WiFi, but then I felt guilty. It's just the
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type of person that I am. There's people out in
the streets, their houses are built out of like nothing.
Some of them don't even have roofs. They have like
aluminum the some houses were flooding. There was one day
we were gonna go eat at a restaurant like aut
A Beach, and we couldn't because the current was coming
(08:38):
over the walls and it was flooding into the city
and into their houses. And people are just sitting there
like like so normal, and they were just sitting outside
looking and watching and there's nothing else to do. There's
literally nothing else to do but to sit there, drink beer,
play dominoes, and that's it. They don't have to technically
(09:00):
at a job because they're basically given everything. And it's
really sad to me because when I was giving out stuff,
I had the opportunity and I'm lucky and I'm blessed
enough to be able to take four big, big luggages
full of medicines because they don't have medicine, all the
(09:20):
stuff that they need, necessities, clothes, from over comfort, just
to give. And whenever I ran out, I would give money,
and they're like, we don't need money, like we can't
do anything with this money. Their currency they're pricing is
so insane, like for one pack of eggs is ten
(09:40):
American dollars, which for them depending on let me say,
let me do the math, let me do that really
quick ten times. Like let's say that the bessels at
three fifty three fifty times, that's like thirty three five
hundred vessels, which is and that's not easy. Like doctors
(10:04):
make twenty dollars a month and that's basically what they
live off of over there. So it kind of puts
everything into into perspective. They're very limited. They can't you know,
it's not accessible. And I'm so grateful for this journey
and for being able to go and visit and really
put things into perspective because it was just it was
(10:29):
just sad, Like it was sad for me to see,
you know, like little kids like they're they were playing
with rocks, they were playing with old, old, little deflated
balls and that's their normal life. Like and I remember
being able to give things out and I took a
bunch of candies, Vibe Relax, I took a bunch of candies.
(10:54):
I took candies, I took toys, and their faces like
they look like wow, like it was Christmas for them
and for me, I'm just I love kids. I genuinely
love kids, and I fell in love with this one
little boy who just looked at me with his beautiful
blue crystal eyes. He was with Ritho, and he just
looked like, oh my God, like thank you, like his
(11:15):
eyes lit up. And every day ever since that i've
been back, I've been praying to God. I'm like, God,
just please bring some justice to Cuba, bring some type
of I don't know, something like they need. They're in need.
I had conversations with people. I spoke with a mom
who took her son to the doctor because he had
constant headaches, and they sent him home because they didn't
(11:38):
have anything for him. They didn't have ibuprofen, they didn't
have tylan all. They didn't like, we're sorry, we don't
have anything to give you guys. And for me, that
was so heartbreaking because I can easily get in my
car and drive two minutes or even get it ubered,
door dashed or whatever, get medicine. It's so easy for us,
and they struggle and I don't know, well, I just
(12:01):
I really didn't notice how much I take life for
granted until I went to Cuba. And I really recommend
everybody going there to really just go with the open
heart and mind. People were asking me, like do you
think I should go do Someone asked me, do you
think your siblings can do it? And I said no,
(12:23):
I feel like my siblings' hearts are so big that
it would just be too heartbreaking, Like they would probably
never want to leave. And I generally, at some point,
even with the power outages, like the government could turn
off the power whenever they want, there'd be times where
I would go to sleep without taking a shower because
the water would be turned off, you know, And obviously
(12:44):
it's humid. It's like the air you feel sticky, you
feel gross, you're sweating. All day was nasty, and I
was like, wow, like thank you God. Like I came home,
I was like, thank you God for this home, thank
you for my ac thank you for this, thank you
for that. And it's really just opened my eyes and
you know, really learn to appreciate life. And I think
(13:05):
about them all every day. And I've gotten to the
point where I'm really praying and I'm really considering, like
i want to open a foundation, i want to end
a certain I want to close something and start something new.
To be able to be a blessing to help foster
children or you know, people in need like Cuba. I
(13:27):
don't know. That's just the dream of my heart. I
want to open a nonprofit over organization and really put
my dedication into this, because again it is just you
don't know what life is like until you go visit Cuba.
We're going to go on a quick break and we'll
be right back to talk more about Cuba.
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I asked you guys on Instagram if you guys I
had any questions about my trip to Cuba, and I'm
going to go ahead and answer them now. Okay, my
family and I are going in November and want to
help out. Where do you recommend? Okay, I recommend taking
(18:18):
a lot of medications. Medications, first aid, kits, bug spray,
do you order it? Toothpaste? I remember talking to someone
and they said that they spent a whole week trying
to find toothpaste and I had it in my luggage
and I was like, you should have told me I
had it and I had given it away to somebody else,
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and I was like whatever. Anyways, things like that personal
hygiene razors and I would I feel like anywhere, I
feel like there's not one specific place where they don't
need it. Like they're all on the same class level.
Where just I necessary that and it's just if you
(19:04):
have the if you have the time and the funds
and to give something, please do, please, please do. Can
anyone visit Cuba? What is the process? I was able
to visit Cuba through UH Tourism. I got my visa
(19:24):
for over there. It wasn't it wasn't hard for me. Obviously,
if your family is from Cuba, you're able to say
you have your family visit. But the only thing is
is that and I didn't have this problem, but people
do have problems bringing stuff. If you're gonna bring stuff
for the refugees, you have to kind of act normal.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In Mexico, when you guys go through the airport, you
have to press like a red button or a green button,
and if you get the green button, you're good to go.
If you get the red button, they have to check
all of your luggages. Luckily, it's kind of like that,
but without the buttons. In Cuba, they just kind of
just look at you and they'll let you go. If not,
(20:05):
you have to get all of your luggage checked. And
if they check your luggages and they see all the
stuff in there. They can either confiscate it and take
it for themselves because they need it as well, or
they will charge you a certain fee. So at that
point it's all by risk and fingers crossed and by
(20:26):
prayers of God that you get passed and they don't
check your bags. Okay, how did you get money there?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Like?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Did you take cash to exchange it? Debit card? Okay?
So you're not allowed to open your bak accounts over there.
You open them, you can open them. It's just you
can't transfer the internet. It just won't let you. The
apps are very limited over there, like TikTok does not
exist over there, which was I was so grateful for.
(20:57):
So before leaving, I took cash out in Miami because
I had a label in Miami. I would go and
exchange and change the currency at four Americans. It is
depending on certain restaurants, it may be better to pay
in their dollar than our dollar. Either way, it's a lot.
It's a lot lot cheaper. And for example, like a
(21:21):
plate of lobster, if you're out here in boiling crab
boiling crabs, lobsters are like what fifty bucks over there?
I got lobster almost every day for seven to ten
bucks with a plate of rice, beans and whatever. And
obviously I'm not gonna I would never want to take
advantage of that, but it is what was available. But yeah,
(21:43):
so I would definitely recommend going to change it before
you get there and changing it before you come back,
because they do not accept any Cuban dollars in the airport,
so don't go buying. Don't go buy souvenirs at the
airport with Cuban dollars because they won't take it. They
only take American dollars. That was a fun fact. I
(22:06):
figured out when I got there. What was there something
you couldn't find in Cuba that you can find here anywhere?
And honestly, anything as simple as water, Like it's so
easy to find water here and it's so hard to
find it there. There was one time where I wanted
(22:26):
to make them seviche, and obviously they don't have a
lot of tomatoes. Their tomatoes are like this small, onions
are this small, bell peppers are this small. They don't
have any chilis. So I would honestly say, everything is
so hard to find over there. One of my friends
had gotten her period and she had to use paper,
(22:49):
towel wipes, toilet paper, which also again is like we
can't use so much toilet paper because this is the
only toilet paper that we have left. So you guys
can kind of see where it's at, and you know,
prepare yourselves, bring your own things. Also bring stuff to
give if you are able to. Why did you decide
to go to Cuba? Cuba has always been on the
(23:12):
list to go. I love traveling in general. I was
going for birthday, and then it was somebody's birthday, and
then I just wanted to go in general. I extended
my stage just to hang around and you know, take
(23:33):
in the culture and experience it for myself, and I
definitely do not regret it. It was the connection I feel.
I felt so connected with people. My phone didn't work
a lot of the time, and when I did, I
would even just not be on my phone, like if
I had signal. I'm just like, I do not care
(23:55):
about this stuff right now, Like I'm enjoying my time
being off of my phone, talking to these people, hearing
their stories, knowing you know who they are and what
they do. And honestly, it was just it was so
full of purpose and again I'm so so so grateful.
Did you try a Cuban cigar? I did not. I'm
not a huge cigar. I feel like that's more of
(24:18):
like a boy thing. I would be down. I just
it wasn't for me. I don't really care. But I
did visit the I think I believe it's Vigniales where
they created the first cigars. Over there, and it was beautiful.
They have like a whole jungle. I definitely recommend it.
That's like two hours from Havana. You can go in
the jungles, you can go in the caves, and there's
(24:40):
like waterfalls and all that beautiful stuff as well. Did
you feel safe, Yes, I felt safe. I'm just a
very pre cautious person. Anyways. I always have my purse
on me, always make sure that it's the doors are locked,
all that stuff. But over there, there was no crime.
They have no guns, they have no weapons, they don't
have anything that they can.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Harm you with.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's pretty much it. I like, if they were to
hurt me, it's like a huge fine. Obviously I wouldn't,
you know, snitch or whatever, but it is very like
a huge precaution, Like if they're surrounded by Americans. They
know they have to be very, very very careful, So yes,
(25:24):
I did feel safe. How many days slash weeks do
you recommend going? So my original stay was for a week.
I stayed a couple of days more. I loved it.
I generally just felt like I wanted to be there.
But you cannot go to Cuba unless you have a
flight back, so they need all that information as well,
So make sure you get a round trip because they
(25:44):
need to know when you're coming back. You can't stay there.
But I do definitely recommend going for like a week,
A week and a half really depends. If you're like me,
you might just fall in love with it and want
to stay longer. But yeah, I feel like that that's
enough time to go ahead and visit. I definitely do
want to go back, just because I feel like I
want to go visit and tour the rest of the
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island and get to know it. And you know what's crazy.
There's this place called in Malecon right, and it's the
there's a wall, and then there's the ocean you're staring
across and you could see Miami like you could see
the lights of Miami. It is ninety miles away from Havana, Cuba.
(26:25):
So they're just Cubans there standing there looking and literally
dreaming of just going ninety miles to Miami. And it's
literally physically not I don't want to say impossible, because
there's been people that made the lanchas and they go
and they go on the boat and they've made it.
Some people don't make it and to go seek refuge
(26:49):
in the United States, and it was just, I don't know.
Coming back home, I would see it as like, Wow,
this is a this is a blessing to be able
to say that I'm born and raised here in the
United States. Obviously I love being Latina, but again, like
I feel like a lot of people take the United
States for granted and it's not like it's nothing like
(27:11):
any other country. And I just I'm grateful.
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All right, you guys, welcome back. The people were very nice.
They know how to party. They party, they party, they
drink a lot. They if you're Latina like me, Mexican specifically,
they have very limited tequila over there. I was on
host Ecuador and it was just you know, if you know,
(31:57):
you know, it's just not the best, but it is
very I had to try other things. I had to
try ram I had to try I think it's called
Havana Club. Their their main alcohol over there beers. I
stopped drinking beer started drinking beer over there again because
there was nothing else to drink. So I would show them, like,
(32:19):
this is how you drink like a Micha Lada. I
would put the limon, I would put the salt, not
a micella, but I would just like like very very nice,
and they loved it. There was at a point also
where I cut the mangos and I had a little
tahen bottle and they don't have nothing the piicanta over there,
so I was also stressed. I was like, fuck, like
I need spicy food like bad, and I know I
should have brought my tapapia bottle, but whatever I had
(32:40):
my tahen I had found it in the middle of
the trip and I gave mango co on limoni tahen
and everybody loved it and they were all spiced out.
I'm like, you guys think it's spicy, but yeah, I
definitely as far as food, as far as the ambiance,
people being nice, like it's always a good time. They're
(33:01):
the sweetest people if you just sit down and have
a conversation with them and not being like scared or
being I feel like you have to humble yourself and
meet them there and kind of just listen to them.
You'll get along with them. How dangerous it is over there?
And anytime do you feel unsafe? I honestly, I don't
remember feeling unsafe. I felt pretty okay where I was
staying at even when I was in the Pueblo, Like
(33:24):
people don't come like they mind their own business. People
are doing the thing. Yes, people stare at you, but
you're also American, like you know when you're American, like
people know you're not a part of them. But it
never felt dangerous or unsafe, even when the power went out,
even when there was no water, Like I just felt
like I was just a normal, normal day, normal lives.
(33:47):
So no, I don't feel like it's dangerous. The only
thing is that when I was giving stuff away, like
they would try to reach in and grab something else.
And that's the only only time obviously, Like I personally
would keep my phone away when I was giving stuff away,
just in case, but other than that, like, no one's
(34:12):
gonna go and steal your phone, no one's gonna go
and grab your purse. Like it's just it is what
it is. So it just again, I didn't fail unsafe.
What do you feel about the political climate. I don't
want to talk too much about it because I also
want to be able to go back to Cuba, but
I do want to say that it is very unfair.
It's very unfair. Like the people that work with the
(34:34):
government have these big, gorgeous houses with security guards in front,
they're gated, and then you drive five minutes away and
then you see these people's houses, little little small houses,
cement houses with no roofs, sometimes just sitting outside with nothing.
(34:54):
And these people that work for the government have these gorgeous,
gorgeous houses, cut plan trees. Everything looks so presentable and beautiful.
And the embassies were just gorgeous as well. It is
a little sad, It's very sad. And again, like I
would love to, I don't know somehow do more. I
(35:18):
feel like what I took wasn't enough. It's never enough,
Like I feel like, damn, like I even manipulated or
gasled myself. I'm like, you could have done more, Like
what the fuck are you doing? Like why didn't you
bring more? But then I realized it's like you know what,
like I can't. I can't provide for the whole country,
at least not right now. I mean, I don't know.
Maybe one day I can. I'm able to, but it's
(35:40):
just it is unfair, and I want to go visit
other countries that are maybe in the same situation, like
you know, Venezuela, Russia are also communist countries. Puerto Rico
is always out of power as well. So I just
have a heart and I want to be able to
be a blessing to people as well, and I think
more than any thing. Another question was what did it
(36:02):
teach you? I think it just taught me how to
value life, Like I stopped caring about TikTok and all
the drama that happens on TikTok or whatever. I come back,
I turn on my phone and I'm just like, wow,
this is really what everybody cares about, like the drama
about you know, social status, and it's just like no,
(36:23):
like you go when you're there, it's just such simple life,
Like you eat food, you play games, you drink beer,
and you hang out and you're just grateful to God
that you got to make it another day with what
you had. And again, obviously like I had more things,
I was provided with more things, and I was able
to take my own things. But seeing and if you
(36:45):
were to be in their position as well, waiting for
the possibility of their chance to get a family member
to make it to the States, to get parole and
to be able to claim you as a resident, like
you have to think about that. I would ask people,
you know, how have you ever decided that you wanted
to go on the boat or have you ever decided
to go you know, in another way of shape or form.
(37:07):
And yeah, there's people that have jumped on the boat,
jumped in the water three four times, and obviously they
couldn't make it. Then there's people whose daughters have had
to leave them, like they go and they make it
through and they don't see their families for a long
time until that family member gets their residency in the
United States and then they're able to claim them as
(37:29):
a refugee or whatever. So I think, more than anything,
I've learned to appreciate my life like I could be
so angry or I could be so stressed out about this,
this or that, and then I think about Cuba and
what I experience and it's just like I really have
no reason to complain. I really don't. And I took
(37:52):
a moment to realize, like, wow, you know, when you know,
when people would tell you like you're not going to
finish eating that, there's people in Africa, there's kids in
Africans that are starving. And I really live those moments
because I would get fool I would get so full
and I would feel so guilty leaving the food and
I'd be like no, like let me just let me
eat it, because then they would see it as disrespectful
(38:14):
if I were to give my food to somebody, and
like you know, it would be offensible to them. And
I didn't want that to happen either. But it's like damn, like, yeah,
there's people out here starving, really starving. There's people that
go to sleep hungry and they're not able to eat
because they weren't able to make money to go, I
don't know, go get a chicken or find rice or whatever.
(38:37):
But overall, it was a beautiful experience. And again, I
really think that if you have the opportunity, please go.
And I really just hope that one day I'm able
to go back and to be a blessing and to
open my foundation and really, if anything, I come back
(38:57):
and I want to share with you guys that life
is so short, and life is so little. It's very limited,
and I just would hope that it's not taken for granted.
I feel like God has a plan and one day,
one day Cuba will be free and everyone can live
(39:18):
a happy life. That is my dream. That's my dream
for the Cubans and people that live in these certain circumstances,
certain circumstances. But I think more than anything, I've learned
to appreciate life and just thank God for you know
(39:39):
what I have now and really share my experience with
you guys. And yeah, that's pretty much it. I wanted
to thank you guys so much for watching and listening
to this. I hope it was some type of inspiration
for you guys. If you guys have any more questions,
please feel free to message me on Instagram and I
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will be more than happy to share anything with you guys.
I also have a highlight there if you guys want
to see my trip to Cuba, everywhere that I visited
and yeah, so I will see you guys next Tuesday
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