 Oh, we live, we live. Hey, it looks like we're live. Excellent connection it says. That means I think we're on the internet right now. Let's see, there's me, I'm live, awesome, cool. Hi everybody, hello my people. Welcome to the Score Channel. So, first live stream on the Score Channel and I just wanna use this to talk a little bit about the state of the channel, where we are, where we're going and some cool new things for you guys that hopefully can help us to interact a little more and make this channel even better. It's, we just passed six months. I have posted a video every Thursday for the past 26 weeks. So that's half a year, so that's like six months. Thursday's release officially is like the exact day of release, I posted the first video, how to study it in Italy on a Monday. So this is technically six month anniversary. I don't need to justify it to anyone, but it feels good. It feels good to say that like I have done something consistently for six months in a row. I initially made it my goal to just do one episode every week, no questions asked and that's tough. I'm not gonna lie, it's been a lot of work. It's been, it's been a lot of effort and I'm excited though about where this is going and how the channel's doing and I think we're doing great and I wanna say thank you to everybody who has watched this channel. If all you've done is watched even a minute of a single video, I greatly appreciate you and I wanna say thank you from the bottom of my heart. It means a lot to me that people want to watch this and people support the channel and people tell me a lot of positive things in the comments, I really appreciate those and I hope that we can continue to provide good content for you. These live streams are gonna be left up on the channel so you guys can go back and watch them anytime you want. My goal is to try to do one every week. I don't know for sure that I will do one every single Monday so I'm gonna just make it clear right now that I'm not promising every single Monday but hopefully we can have enough stuff to talk about and hopefully you guys can give me some ideas that can help me out. So I just wanna tell you a little bit about what's going on with the channel. Today's live stream is gonna be kinda short. This is just more of a test to make sure everything's working okay for the channel because next week we're gonna be doing more and I wanna make sure that everything works just right, right now. So yeah, let's talk about what's going on. New features or things that you might not know about that are happening on the channel. One such thing is playlists. I have been putting together playlists now for a few weeks so you may have noticed these, you may not but we have one that kinda like covers a lot of my random things like advice for applicants, like my motivational speeches and like, I don't know, that's sort of the random playlist right now. We got interviews, we need to get more of those, we have more coming up. We've got the study abroad series, of course, how to study in blank country. That is a playlist, you can go watch all of those, go ahead and binge them please. Stuff about exams, we're gonna have more content coming up for exams because it's the season and then I kinda just made this one, my rabbit hole videos where it's like, okay, these are really deep research videos where I don't really know how I even got to making this video in the first place but here it is, there you go. And University, the new series, which is getting better. I got more in the works. So there are playlists, if you guys are interested, what's up, Marcos, I see you in the chat, how you doing, hey. Yeah, if you guys are interested in checking out these playlists, you can check out the playlists. Another cool thing that is happening on the channel right now is that we are putting in subtitles in Spanish. This is a new project I have been kind of waiting to get into this because it's a lot of work but I actually have help now because Score has gotten bigger and I wanna give a shout out to Tyler who's been helping me out with this stuff. Subtitles in Spanish, we have already put them in the How to Study in Spain video and also in the University RIT video and we're hoping to get at least another video subtitled every week or if not more. I'm gonna be trying to put in some effort to help Tyler with that too but basically our goal is to have awesome Spanish subtitles on every video because we know a lot of people watching this are here in Peru and so it would be cool to, you know, give you guys the opportunity to read stuff in your own language and also maybe just like, you know, maybe you got your parents and you wanna show them a video and like they don't speak English and they don't understand anything and you wanna tell them, hey mom, I really wanna study in Tonga so like watch this video about How to Study in Tonga and here's the Spanish subtitles, you know? Maybe that's why. So those are a couple of new things that are on the channel that are gonna be, you know, more present, you will see more of those things. Yeah, I'm glad you hear that Marker, thank you, I'm glad you enjoy that. Yeah, basically, you know, just trying to add some value, make some things better. So I wanna give you a little preview of what's coming up next, what we got going on. There's a lot of stuff. This is like, I've gotten into a rhythm where like I have a bunch of things happening simultaneously now. I think at this moment there's at least six videos in production at some phase of production which is kind of crazy. Like I don't think I've ever had that many projects happening at once. So that's a pretty cool feeling to have like a lot going on. And so like a couple of the things coming up right now in the How to Study series, like we got How to Study in France queued up, that will be released in a couple of weeks. So it's in the queue, which is great. Anytime something's in the queue, I'm happy because that means it's done and I don't have to think about it anymore. So that's cool. I also have a script in the works for How to Study in China. It was a request and it's something that I was interested in. Also a couple of people have requested this one actually. So I'm looking forward to getting into that a little bit more. Research assistant Derek helped me out a little bit with that script. So I still need to go through it and kind of finish it off and then sit down and do the recording. But that is like in the list of things to do. So that's pretty cool. We've got university episodes. Episode two is in the editing process as we speak. I have already done the interview with the university. I'm not gonna spoil where it's coming from yet, but I'm looking forward to this one because it's in one of my favorite cities in the United States. And I cannot wait to just put tons of awesome pictures of the city and just like reminisce about all my times there because I love Chicago. That's as much as I'll say, it's in Chicago. So that's cool. And also episode three is coming up and I won't spoil anything about that but it's gonna be a big one. It's not in the United States. It's a very major private university outside of the United States. And I'm super hyped for that. That's gonna be really cool. So we're gonna actually have that interview in a couple of weeks and then I have to edit the stuff. So this is all stuff that's coming down the pipe. Coming soon. It is interesting. I think you're gonna like it. So that's cool. What else we got going on? Oh yeah, interviews with fans. It's been a while since I've done an interview and I'm trying to reach out to more people to get some more contacts for those. And this time I said, you know what? Let me just reach out to the whole worldwide internet and see if I can find some people. And I actually have been talking to some people who are applying to France right now. And so I wanna get their take on what it's been like to go through this process while they're still in it. And then I think we'll do a follow-up interview after they have been in France for a while. Let's find out what it's like. Not like what's your expectation versus reality? What you thought it would be versus what it is. I kinda wanna do some stuff with that. I also have a friend who's studying there right now so I'm gonna try to get in touch with her and hopefully, you know, have more interviews about France cause it's a very popular international destination. So I think it would be good to have some more content about that for you guys. Prairie Birthday episode. That is coming up next Thursday. That is a whole separate thing. That is, how do I explain that? So I, this is kind of my excuse for a vacation week. I'm not gonna not post, but I am gonna have like a video with minimal editing where I just kind of tell you about some of my experiences studying here and talk about what it's been like to live in Peru for the last 12 years and why a gringo would go to Peru and things of that nature. So I wanna answer some of those big questions that everybody has about me and like my experience here. So that's something that we're gonna do. That should be cool. And I also wanna do a video where I introduce you to the rest of the score team and the score has gotten bigger. Before this month, like back in May, early May, there were like three of us. Now there's like 12, 13, 14. It's, it's, there's a lot of people now. So that's really exciting. And I would like everybody to kind of have a chance to just meet everybody. I don't think that'll be like a regular Thursday. I'll probably just drop that on another day. So yeah. And this is like a surprise video Marko. I mean, kind of yes. Like the thing is this live stream is sort of a, I just decided to do this today because I wanted to preview some of the content here and tell people what's going on with the channel. I wanted to do a video about like what it's been like to do this for six months and stuff. And I just thought, you know what, let's just keep it simple. Have a little live stream and talk about what's going on with the channel. But the Peruvian birthday episode, yeah, is something that I've been thinking about doing. I had intended to record it last weekend. I was hoping to have election results so I could comment on that, but that probably isn't going to happen before my Peruvian birthday. So we're just going to ignore that part right now and just kind of talk about life in Peru. And that's my excuse for not doing like a fully edited episode basically, just like a more casual candid episode for my Peruvian birthday to treat myself because producing high quality content every week takes a lot of effort and it would be nice to have a week kind of off. There's no such thing as a week off really, but like, you know, whenever I have a few videos in the queue, it's nice because I can just take a week off and not have to like stress. And also the next video that's coming out this Thursday, this is actually the very next video that will be up on the channel, personal statement advice. If you're going to go to the United States to study, you will need to write a personal statement. If you're going to other countries, you may need to write a personal statement. There are a lot of situations where writing a personal statement is important. And so we're going to do some stuff about that. And that kind of brings me to the next stuff about live streams. I want to talk about this schedule that I kind of have right now. I have the first two like full live streams figured out. Okay. We got on the 21st, I'm going to do a personal statement live. Like I'm going to write it from scratch. Okay. 100% just me sitting down, writing out my personal statement. I'm hoping that I have my new keyboard by then. So you can hear the wonderful clickety clack, but that might not happen. So I don't know, we'll see. But yeah, that's something I want to do in the 21st. So this week, like we got the video about the personal statements. And then on Monday, we'll have a live stream of me doing a personal statement. So hopefully that can help everybody who needs to do that. And then I've had a lot of people asking about Duolingo speaking stuff and Duolingo things. And so I want to do like a single day speaking practice workshop where I go through a bunch of the different exercises on the Duolingo. Like I'm going to go in and do them, right? And sort of I made my own versions of them and I'm going to do them live and kind of give people the opportunity to practice them and share some of my tips with them. So this is like a big thing right now is these live streams. I want to do more of these. I want to have like, I want to do things that you guys want. So tell me what you want. Like just say it. SAT practice for example is an option. I don't know. I was thinking about doing some live streams where I do some of the SAT readings like or the writing parts of the test and kind of explain the right answers as I go. Maybe that could be helpful. Other English exams, we got a lot of people right now preparing for TOEFL and IELTS. So I might do some stuff related to that. Longer explanations of the admissions processes in other countries. Cause like you don't have any idea how much stuff gets cut from these how to study videos. I mean, I probably could make those videos 25 minutes long or 30 minutes long. And I don't do that for two reasons. One, you wouldn't watch it all. And two, it's a lot of work to edit all that. So and to make it good. So I try to just give you the best content and the most important information. But there's a lot of little things that I don't explain either because I just don't have time for it or like I maybe have mentioned it in another video and it's just like, sometimes like to cover a certain country in depth, we need to just have a sit down session like this where I can just explain everything to you. So that's something I wanna do too. But I'm open to ideas. Like whatever you guys think would be cool for the channel. If there's anything that you want, let me know. Speak up, say, hey, because I would like to make these Mondays like about you people and what you want and figure out what you need. So if you have ideas for things that you wanna do, then say things and tell me stuff. And then we will do those things and do that stuff. So that's pretty much what's going on with the channel guys. That's like the, that's the state of the channel. We got six months straight of not missing a week and we're gonna do another six months and then another six months and another six months. We're just gonna keep going and going and going because it never stops. The road to one billion is a long road, okay? But we're gonna get there, I believe. And I'm very happy with how things are going right now in the channel. I'm very happy with how you guys have responded to the content and I'm really happy just that people are even here watching this right now. That's super cool. So if anybody has any ideas about things that they want, again, I'm all ears. I love your suggestions. When people tell me a country that they want me to make, it's like, it fills me with inspiration. I'm like, yes, okay. I don't have to think, I just do. It's nice, it's refreshing. You know, when people drop ideas in the comments and when people let me know what they want for the live streams and stuff, that makes it really easy for me to do things. So tell me what you want. And I'm looking forward to doing more of these things. So that is all that I wanted to do today. I just wanted to kind of go over some of the stuff coming up on the channel. Do a little live stream test here. I think this is perfect, 15 minutes for today is good. I will be probably sitting here for like a full hour next week. So I will see you then. But for now, that is all. Thank you very much for swinging by. And if you have any comments or suggestions, just leave them in the comments. And I will see you guys later. I'll see you on Thursday. And then I'll see you next week. And then on Thursday after that. And then the next week, on and on and on until the eventual end of our civilization. Have a good day.