A little piece of me!

Nilka, Nilza, & Alexander on Nilka's 4th Birthday in Pre-Pre.

Nilka's High School Graduating class (2014).

      So you might want to know and need some important facts about me so you can understand better my blog. My name is Nilka T. Melendez I'm currently 19 years old soon-to-be 20 and one of my long time goals is traveling the world learning new cultures and traditions. My parents, Alexander Melendez and Nilza Carrasquillo, are both puertorricans born and raise as am I. I have travel almost all North America and the Caribbean and I'm dying to travel to South America and the Old World. 


       
   
      I studied for 15 years in Carvin School, Inc. (preschool - high school), where I developed my love for genetics and also took after-school classes where I learned French and Portuguese. After graduating high school I started my sub graduated studies in UPR Cayey Campus, then transferred to Rio Piedras campus where I'm currently studying. Career goals? Well as of right now I'm majoring on Biology on UPR Rio Piedras Campus and I'm thinking of taking Physics as second concentration, my plan is to attend to University of Florida to get my masters degree on Medicine than obtaining my Ph.D. and M.D on Geneticist on Yale.

Swimming with dolphins at Atlantis hotel,
Paradise Island, Bahamas (Summer 2011).

       Interests, likes and dislikes? I like a investigating, scary, horror, comedy and romantic theme movies and TV shows. I live to watch Supernatural, Scream Queens, American Horror story, Once Upon A Time, Bones, F.R.I.E.N.D.S., and CSI: Miami and Las Vegas. Currently my favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep. R&B, Jazz, Rap, Alternative, Classic Rock and Hip Hop are my favorites genres in music, my favorite singer is Justin Bieber even though people criticizes me. I garden the spices and vegetable that are cook in my house for all the tree meals, I have come to believe that home garden's spices provide a better taste to food.

Smiling on the way to the university (September 24, 2015).

   
 



   


      Also I absolutely love animals and kids, I plan in opening a low cost animal hospital for stray and domestic dogs and cats. Volunteering is my life I love to see peoples happy faces when I help them, it fills me with joy. I usually volunteer at PR GA and "Fondos Unidos". My fave color is purple, red, and black, I'm fluent in English and Spanish, but I also speak Portuguese and French. I hope you like reading my blog, feel free to comment and review. Thank you!