First post

I am writing something here because Blogspot is unhappy with me not having any post.

That is how my first post to a blog usually goes; and usually it would have ended after the first sentence. Unusually, I kind of have something to say this time.

I am closing AoNikki, my blog on My Opera, after couple years of very sporadic new posts.  The majority of posts on AoNikki were written during the two years when I transitioned from UWC Costa Rica to MIT, and have been extremely important in the first steps in my journey of self-discovery. Now, however, I feel that they no longer reflect who I am -- which is fine -- and make me feel pressured to only write about things that are consistent with the theme of the whole blog -- which is not. Don't expect to see an update on AoNikki because there will be none; the old posts, however, will stay there because they are quite pleasant to read. Some of them are kind of silly, and that's fine too.