 Oi, so as you guys know, my ankle is fried. I have a bad ankle from an injury over a year ago and it's still not completely healed yet. It's an ongoing injury, so I haven't been able to skate this week. I skated a couple of times last week and I got a few clips. I mean, yeah, you cleared the whole ledge too. You didn't even clip the ledge coming out or anything. That was so good. I just want to let you guys know that that was like seriously well within two tries? Two hits. Yeah. Two hits. I was thinking about it the whole time you guys were skating. I was like, I'm gonna try these tricks. See, there it is. See, it's always good and mentally prepared. The morning after, my ankle was like swollen, so it's like in my sleep, I've injured my ankle somehow, some way. I tried to skate on it yesterday and it didn't work out too well, so I'm gonna have to be off my board for the week, but I wanted to get a video out to you guys. I just wanted to talk to you guys about how California has changed me. It just sounds so cliche, but I've got a few key points here to talk to you guys about. Me being out here around other people that are productive and are working towards their goals and stuff, it makes me want to be extra productive. So compared to back in Sydney, where I was kind of laid back and I was kind of like, I'll get it done eventually. There was always time to burn in Sydney that I didn't really care for as I do up here because it's always sunny up here and you can always go out and skate and film stuff or go and do whatever. So I'm definitely being more productive in that sense, like I'm getting out of the house. If you guys have watched my channel for a while now, you guys will know that I'm a pretty big introvert. I like being home a lot. I'm a homebody, so sometimes that can fall in a kind of negative way for myself because I'll always want to be home, but here it's so sunny outside. I'll just go outside. I'll go ride my bike if I'm not going to skate. I'll go down to the beach, kickback, watch the sunset, stuff like that. Whereas in Sydney, I didn't feel guilty at all about just staying home probably because it was raining nine times out of 10 anyway. That's one of the main things that is different about me now that I'm more productive and I'm more kind of driven in a sense, I guess. I mean, I was driven in Sydney, but now that I'm here, it's like more of a driving, there's more of a driving force on myself to like be productive and like put out the content and like do the shit that I want to do here. Another way California's changed me is that I'm naturally quite a shy, reserved person. Like I know it sounds funny, but because I have a YouTube channel and like I put myself out there on the internet or whatever, but I'm very shy and I'm very reserved and introverted of course. So being up here has kind of forced me out of my shell a little bit. Like I think I've spoken about my first experience like skateboarding around like proper skateboarders here and how shy I was and how modest I was and like I'll just stick to my basic tricks and like not want to try anything or learn anything new. But I feel like now I can like be on the session and just like feel like I'm worthy of being on the session of all these people. That sounds so funny to me now, but that was my reality. Like when I first come up here and was like skating with everyone, I was like in my head, I'm not worthy of being here. Like I suck at skateboarding, but now it's like I can go skate, have fun, have a laugh with the boys, open up to people. It's been like a growth thing for me, I guess. Like back in Sydney, because Australians have such like a convict style culture, like you'll speak to your mates, but you won't really like speak to new people or make new friends and stuff. I don't know how, I don't know why it's like that, but it's just like an old jail convict thing, I think in my opinion. That's what I've heard from another Aussie, so yeah. Another really weird thing about how California has changed me is I find myself beginning to kind of assimilate quite a bit and it's scary. Like sometimes I'll roll up to the gas station, I roll up to the servo and I'll go to put petrol in my car and up here you can pay at the pump, you can put your car in the pump and you can pay the pump. Sometimes I roll up to the gas station and then the car reader won't work and I'll be like, I'll just go to another servo. Like I'm that precious, I don't want to get out of the car, walk inside and see the cashier, I'll just like drive to another service station to get petrol. Which is so American because I feel like Americans are about that, you know? Whereas in Aussies, you fill up first and then you go inside and pay. So that's like one thing, I've become like more Americanized in that sense. Another weird thing of how California's kind of changed me is that my vocabulary has changed quite a bit. People here don't talk the same as they do in Australia. People here speak English completely to a T. It's all pronounced and it's all in its entirety. It's not cut down and shortened and there's no real slang. So I find myself having to adjust, being able to like speak to people. So people understand me kind of thing. Because if I said to someone, Oi, what are you doing in the salvo? You want to go for a skate? They're going to go, What? Oval? Whereas in Aussies, I'd be like, Yeah, yeah, sweet, let's go skate. So it's different here. Like the slang doesn't translate. And I feel like because I've started to like change my vocabulary a little bit, a little bit of my accent has started to soften up quite a bit. I always catch myself pronouncing R's like your, I'll say like your and I'm like, it doesn't feel good in my mouth. It feels gross in my mouth to sound like that. But usually if I feel that way and I'm homesick, I'm just like facetime one of the boys and have a convo. And yeah, the accent kind of comes back pretty quickly. Or if I'm angry and I'm like speaking to my housemate, Caden, he reckons he can tell like when I'm pissed off, because I'll start talking, I'll just sound like straight Australian compared to like how I usually talk here. Funny enough, I met a couple of Aussie chicks at work a couple of weeks ago. One of them is like a digital marketing media person. Like she does a lot of like digital content and stuff for like different companies. And one of her clients is penny skateboards. So if you're an Aussie, you've definitely heard of penny skateboards before. I think they're out of Queensland. But yeah, she hit me up to model for a shoot. So I needed photos and videos. We went down to Laguna Beach, we read around some penny boards. Yeah, it was a rad day. Here is the footage from that day. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. So I'm at Laguna Beach right now. So I think we're going to get some photos and then some videos today cruising around on these little boards. Hopefully I don't die because these boards are really fast and spend a minute since I've ridden one. Back to my YouTube channel. So today we're just skating and I'm filming with Penny skateboards. I'll link you in the description. Yeah, he'll link me in the description. I don't skate. We motto. What do you think? Yeah, it's like carving. This is very different because the truck, it's like a carve truck. So you have to carve. My weight goes forward a lot, so like almost falling off. But I think if I wrote it for like a day or so I'll get used to it. Yeah, just very different. It's from Australia. You could hear that Aussie accent from a mile away. As soon as he's come in, I was like, my ears just like picked up and I was like, Oi, where are you from? And then you guys started talking and this is how this happened. All thanks to me and my spontaneous mind. That's pretty much it for this video guys. Yeah, I'm bummed I can't skate, but content is content. This is kind of like two videos put together into one. Shout out to K-Dubs and Taylor. Shout out to Taylor for filming. If you want to go and check out her YouTube channel, the link is in the description below. She rides motos, rips. Yeah, sick to see. I have a dirt bike right now being built. Should be built soon, so it's going to be fun to learn how to ride two strokes. Until next time guys, cheers for watching the video. If you've made it this far, don't forget to check out eveningmob.com, 20% off right now. And yeah, cheers.