 afternoon of April 17 and I have not really read much. I found that I do pretty much all of my reading on the weekends because during the week I'm just so I need to get homework done. I need to get this paper written so these vlogs are not turning out to be as great so I hope they would. So I am sorry about that but yeah it's Friday so pretty much I'm going to finish this paper and before class hopefully I can do some reading. We'll see. I hope your reading is going a lot better than mine is. Life's horse is for my room and I'm just so excited it looks so cool that I'm gonna show it to you guys. This is the perfect environment and atmosphere to read the Night Circus in because I've got my lights from college hung up around the mirror in the window right next to my bed so they're kind of like the stars because this is for my astronomy class but I don't like having that window open because it's really creepy doing while I sleep so I can have these lights on for reading this bug but now I actually have a lamp overhead of my bed so I can read. I got this brand new lamp here it's off right now but it's like super duper bright. If I can hit the button yeah it's like nice and bright and I can mess with themes too so that's like really nice and then I also have the one main light that I've always had in here but I'm just super excited for those lights and that new light and my head light like oh my gosh my room is actually gonna be bright again so yeah I just felt like this was I created an atmosphere that I really enjoy for my astrology book my astronomy book and that's the Night Circus so I'm gonna continue to read that in hopes that I make good progress tonight and this weekend. Hey guys it's April 21 it's about just about after 11 o'clock I slept in quite a bit today but that's because I stayed up reading last night I'm about 150 pages into the Night Circus and I'm really enjoying it I really didn't want to put the book down but I'm starting to nod off and fall asleep and so I needed to put it down go to bed so I let my stuff sleep in a little bit but not too much I definitely could have slept in more had I not set multiple alarms but I thought today I might be fun to kind of do a little more of a vlog type day so you guys can see what my life was like a little bit and like how my reading patterns are during this month and how they kind of happen ever since moving home or really ever since being in college so yeah we're gonna go ahead and get started with my day is to do some Russian homework normally back when I was in class I would have Russian every morning to start my day but now that we're online my professors decided to make it only twice a week with a bunch of homework to do for the other day so I'm gonna start off by doing my Russian homework and then after that I have a history lecture so I'm gonna go ahead and get started on those my dad came and dropped me off a little Frappuccino coffee he came back from the store and put this on my desk thank you dad halfway through my Russian homework and it is now time for me to join my history lecture which is over zoom so that's gonna be fun I really wish I could have gotten my Russian homework done but it's not gonna be too bad I only have one exercise left so I'll just do it after the lecture but for now I'm really excited cuz during history we're learning about like North Central and South America before colonization which is one of my favorite places and times in history I love Native American history Aztec, Mayan, Inka and also African history like way before any colonization any Europeans came into view like that was my favorite kind of history which is why I really love this history class here she is I gotta go okay so I just finished my history lecture amazing lecture I seriously guys it's not history is not my major or even my minor but I just love this class so much and I'm really sad because our professor just announced that on Thursday it's gonna be our last lecture I'm like no but she's giving us an entire week to do an exam because you know everyone's at home so I mean it's really nice of her to do that but I just oh so sad anyway so I finished that lecture it's 1 30 yeah just about 1 30 so I'm probably gonna get some lunch and finish my Russian work and I'm actually gonna show you guys how I'm keeping my life organized during this quarantine it's a very simple system it's barely even like a system it's just something that I do that keeps me sane every day okay so I have my planner with all of my daily assignments and my quizzes and tests and presentations on it but honestly what keeps me organized during this period is this notebook right here I don't know why but I just like it's so much more than my planner and literally all I do is like I make a list like this was yesterday's list of all the things that I'm gonna do and then I cross it off once it's done sometimes I have to write down my classes especially classes that I have to do my own work for rather than tuning into a lecture like history and sometimes it's just work that I need to do so like this is today's I need to do my Russian work and then I ended up doing my media lecture less yesterday then I gotta do my literature lecture and I just finished my history lecture and then I've got my Arabic things to do and then I've just got some other work that needs to be done that not necessarily today but like as soon as possible so like I honestly just make a list of things I need to do and then once it's done I cross it off like here I can go ahead and cross off history so it's just a simple thing and I don't know why I love it when I already have a planner with all of my homework to do I think it just helps me budget time specifically a little bit easier so yeah and I finished my Russian homework and my media lecture my history lecture my professor has not yet posted my literature lecture so I will wait until later today and hopefully he has done that and then I'll just have Arabic for today to do how exciting but for now since it is almost two o'clock I am going to finally go get some lunch yay lunch time food amazing yay lunch and for now the only work that I can do is my Arabic work I'm gonna do the homework for tomorrow even though I haven't had class yet that's because the homework for today is to do a quiz however my computer is saying it doesn't have enough storage for this quiz and that I am more likely going to crash during the quiz rather than actually complete it which makes me really really nervous so I'm gonna spend some time deleting things off my computer and hopes I can get more storage but I spent a lot of time last night doing that as well so I'm nervous about that and we'll see how it goes because I know I'm gonna do all in the quiz because it's my second time taking it um because our professor is like take it multiple times because it's good for you which it is testing effect it works it's good um but yeah so I'm kind of nervous about doing that so we'll see I'm probably gonna have to send my professor an email and be like hey I'm trying um but yeah and then once that is done I will have completed my schoolwork today so I will check up with you guys when I have completed my schoolwork for today also if my literature professor uploads his lecture today then I'll do that but otherwise it's just Arabic so I'll catch up with you guys later when all of that is done okay in the afternoon I finished all my Arabic homework for today I was able to successfully do the quiz huzzah um and then I did my reading for tomorrow for that and now since I have 40 minutes before my Arabic class starts I'm actually going to zoom talk with my fiancé and I'm super excited because we haven't been able to see each other all during quarantine because he's at his dad's house and I'm at my parent's house so it's been kind of crazy trying to plan a wedding while also being quarantined away from each other so we're gonna zoom until my Arabic class um and then yeah so we'll go from there and then it's on to like the rest of my day so yay dinner so I'm gonna go have dinner with my family and then I generally don't get a lot of work done after dinner with my family because we are always having some plans every night and so after dinner I will introduce you to all of my plans because why not it's a it's a vlog of my day so you guys are gonna get to see my day so I'm gonna go have dinner we're having stuffed peppers and I'm excited because I used to eat those when I was in Kirkstein and of course they're being made by my kirkies host sister so they're gonna be just like they were over there so yay okay I'm gonna go eat now bye awesome sausage is now 6.53 and we have finished dinner normally my family can take anywhere from half an hour to an hour long when we eat dinner because it really depends on um how social we are and how much we want to talk to each other and like what we talk about and also what kind of plans people have going on after dinner um but the thing is is that today we ate a little bit earlier we ate a like around six so we had you know kind of almost an hour to sit down have a meal but we always have to be done before seven o'clock because seven o'clock is when me and my host sister Isaac have our zumba um have our zumba exercise time zumba's dance fitness uh my cousin actually teaches um some classes over zoom during this time of quarantine um so we have been doing that on Monday Tuesday Thursday nights and Saturday mornings so we're just gonna hop right over to that activity now so this is like the only time I ever get to move around and be active during quarantine so I'm really happy that my cousin does this so let's hop right over hi Pauly are you gonna join us for zumba tonight because you're right in the middle of our living room no you just want the pets you're gonna hate it when we start moving around chose to do dance dance revolution on our week so one physical activity to another I'm sorry I'm shaking so much I've got so much adrenaline so now we're gonna go and do that the rare time we'll get dad to do dance dance revolution yes how you doing there dad that's doing just fine that's all done my mom has chosen to do another activity which is not normal but she wanted to and so we a few nights ago started dominoes game so now I'm gonna go and finish our game of dominoes with the family so that'll that'll conclude family activities for tonight with 450 finishing our game of dominoes we only had like four rounds left so we just had to quit get it done tonight it is now 943 p.m and we are going to start watching the card which is the new star trek episode series along with discovery but we already finished season two of discovery and yes I am a star trek nerd I like star trek yes I have seen the original star trek a new generation and all the ones after it I have seen it um so yeah it's almost 10 o'clock and now we're gonna start watching movies or not movies the card the tv show and yes I do keep returning to my room to give you guys updates in between things just so that my family can continue to operate normally so here we go last thing in the night last thing with my family let's go yes poly dad is finally sitting down so you can sit on his lap she's so spoiled but adorable here we go start the show all righty it is now 11 29 p.m we watched two episodes of the card and I gotta say the show is getting better it starts off really slow and then it kind of picks up it like I think it's start the show starts off with a very promising concept but it slows and then it kind of flips where it picks up a little bit but then the concept just kind of doesn't seem like there's too much more to it just kind of seems like it got simplified so I'm waiting for there to be like another twist or another element or something also I painted my nails Ravenclaw I did not have a gray or a silver so I did black instead and this is the only shade of blue that I have so figured Hogwarts Ravenclaw owls let's go yeah um you know so it is 11 30 at night and I can now start my reading slash get ready for bed and do some reading so and this is precisely why I am 150 pages into the night circus my read for astrology rather than uh the killing woods which is my read for a divination because I'm always reading at night so then I'm like oh now that I'm reading at night I have to read my night time book the night circus so here's to reading another 50 pages tonight yeah so I'm gonna just hop right into that and stop constantly stalling but here we go and start 50 pages a night so hopefully I'll have this done early next week typical you know it's like a 500 page book and I'm on page like 155 so yeah it'll take me another week magic and that there is so much magic that it just might read another chapter we'll see but yeah like talking about guests and going into uh the circus and kind of more background repeated characters going into the circus and like the effect that it's having but then it goes back and forth between um the two people in the competition as well like Marco and Celia and I gotta say like I like Celia and the relationship with her dad and what all is happening there but I feel like Marco and his girlfriend Isabel I feel like I would love that relationship if Marco it's I feel like he's really not putting in the work and Isabel like completely is like she loves him and stuff but so that's like the only relationship that I'm like um because I don't really want Celia and Marco to get together because I like is about and change the camera a little bit because that was remnants but yeah so I think it's I think it's wonderful and I think it's magical and I definitely have a lot more to read I kind of hope it picks up a little bit more but I don't know how much more it can pick up especially since I've got you know 300 more pages left but I'm really excited I'm definitely gonna get this finished because I am enjoying it quite a lot um yeah and it really is the perfect nighttime read because so much of it happens at night or talks about it happening at night so I seriously would recommend this thus far but honestly read it at night like don't read it during the day and it's even better if you read it underneath uh little lights too because why not add some of your own magic to your settings so yeah so far so good