It's so hard to say good-bye (R.I.P Kaisa Iniguez)

Kaisa enjoying a cupcake from a relative or friend  =) 

I woke up Monday July 2, 2012 right on time I guess because there was an urgent text message on my cell from my best friend, Marisa telling me that one of my high school/childhood friends had passed away from a very bad head on collision accident. I am deeply sadden because it is one thing to lose someone but to lose someone you haven't spoken to in such a long time. That's an even harder part to describe. This is someone I knew personally. I knew her from the first time I met her in high school. She was one of the first people I met actually aside from the other three or four ladies who would become part of my life.


I first met Kaisa Yelitza Iniguez when she was thirteen years old. She had lived near my apartment complex at Newport for about 3 years before I met her. The timing was really good because since I was starting a new journey. I was about to start high school and she would become someone who would sure enough be someone who would take me along for a ride.


Kaisa and I went to the same school, we actually lived in the same apartment building at one point for about 4 years we did. So we both did a lot of growing up together.She lived across the street originally from me. She arrived from Ecuador in 1998 with her mom and then we met two years later. I met her at the train station first and I walked over cause I didn't have many friends around my neighborhood. So she was a big part of my life actually. 


She and i we partied together a lot going over to our girlfriends house and listening to music having a good time. She really was like the opposite of me in some ways she was a fiery, fierce, fiesty Aries woman. She brought out a lot of good in me though. 


I will never forget the times we went joyriding in my mom's car, the times we walked home together from school or going to school on the bus. The times we went out clubbin' and how we would get all dolled up looking in the mirror putting on make up. Gossiping about boys and even exchanging shoes cause we both wore a size nine in shoes. 


One time that always stands out to me is probably when she went to school one morning and she was so cold. I ran upstairs and i went back to my apartment looking for a coat. I brought her down my brand new white Guess coat and she loved it. That was the best feeling in the world it made me realize that with that one moment you can always help a friend in need. 


I met one of my boyfriends actually thru her we did double dating and group dating sometimes too, we went shopping,we went to see the Exorcist when it was remastered and came out in 2000 and we were so young at the time because of the R rating we could not get inside the film so we she decided to ask an older woman to help us get in and of course we did. 


Our friendship wasn't picture perfect we fought too sometimes. That made our friendship strong though we knew each others strengths and weaknesses. We trusted each other and we tried to keep loyalty and trustworthiness apart of that. 


I met s many people through her who were friends and family members who became apart of my life for a moment but she definitely was there for me in return. I will miss her so much. It's hard to say good-bye to her. 


Her name was Kaisa Yelitza Iniguez-Jimbo and she was twenty-five years old. She passed away in a very tragic, dangerous car accident on July 1, 2012 in her birthplace Ecuador. She will be missed by so many loved ones and friends. I dedicate this blog entry to you. 

The last thing I want to share with my beloved readers that I said to her in a conversation. I was leaving to move to New York City actually and I just so happened ran into her mother who was outside relaxing outfront of our apartment complex. She was on the phone and saw I was upset so she called her daughter as well. The last thing I told her was "Good luck with everything" she had become recently engaged. She was no dummy either a math expert (she even tutored me sometimes to help out) in high school and college. She was a college graduate of Saint Peter's College and worked on her master's degree as well. She knew how to handle her business and most of all she was so sweet, she loved life, she was sensitive, real, honest, and funny too! She had a great laugh! She will be missed so much.


Rest in peace 
Kaisa Iniguez
(April 15, 1987 - July 1,2012)
                         
 Kaisa and I when we were 16 and 17 at Rockerfeller Center ringing in the Christmas holiday in New York, NY December 2003 

Where Kaisa was from her home  flag (Ecuador) =)

I know she's looking down watching all of us