 Hey guys, what's up? My name is Sonali and this is my boyfriend Ryan. Today we thought we would try out the new questions feature on Instagram. So we wanted to do a Q&A, especially while I'm home with my boyfriend. So today we are going to be talking about long-distance relationships, college, our favorite places to go in Atlanta, and all of that. So let's get started. Number one. Number one is actually from me. So I'll skip that one. They're real number one. Are you and Ryan good at communicating through disagreements? So I'm honestly a little bit petty when it comes to like our arguments. So it could be like him just not making the bed when he's, you know, said he would. But he is very forgiving if we get into like any like fight or argument. Like he's really forgiving. So 10 minutes later, he'll just like come back to me and he's like... Yeah, he's like, okay, are you done now? Like can we be friends again? We literally get over fights in like less than 15 minutes. Maximum an hour, honestly. I'm just not like an angry person. I think it's rubbed off on her. I feel like she used to be really uptight about stuff and now she kind of relaxes about everything. She still continues moods right now. She's just gonna fight me about anything. So I just give up. Okay, fine. I didn't make the bed. Sorry. Number two. What is the best UCF activity that you've attended? So back on information, I go to UCF. I'm a rising senior studying radio television and minor in sociology. I go to the University of Georgia. I'm a rising senior and I'm majoring in marketing. So it's honestly hard to say from my three years, I have like really bad memory, but a recent activity that they had was the solar eclipse viewing. Basically, you would just go to the reflective pond and get those like cool three glasses and everyone was just like looking at it at the reflective pond and I thought it was just so cool to see like everyone kind of like boning over this experience. I don't know. I thought it was really cool. Like the teachers were so nice. I actually didn't get a pair of glasses because they ran out. So even like the teachers were like passing them around. I don't know. I thought it was a really cool event. Do you have any favorite UGA events? If you guys know Georgia, you kind of know like the traditions. Yeah, kind of how famous this is for football. So really Saturdays in the first semester is your football season. Yeah. That's just kind of my favorite time of the year already, plus football. Plus, you know, like I'll say bars downtown. But yeah, it's just kind of a fun atmosphere. I mean, it's kind of know for its atmosphere, the best college town in the nation. But it's just fun. I mean, no, it's not a single event that I can just pick out. Yeah. But do stuff on campus. Like you'll meet a lot of people that's really cool. Yeah. Okay. So how do y'all make long distance work? The most helpful thing for long distance relationships is video calling. We FaceTime like as much as we can. And I don't know, I personally like don't really get bothered not being with him 24 seven just because I'm able to live my own life. And it's kind of nice because I don't know, like I feel like if I went to the same college as Ryan, I would not be where I am today. I would not be getting like the internship and like doing like all this cool videography gigs and like not not that you hold me down. Now we're able to stay as busy as if we were single while still being together. Yeah. That's kind of important for me because like I like to get my grades up. Yeah. And hopefully FaceTime like 30 minutes to both kind of understand that we need to do our own stuff. Like, we're both busy. It's fine if we don't talk for like couple hours. I actually got a DM recently saying that most of this girl's family like wants her to break up with her boyfriend because she's going to college. You want her to clean the slate? Yeah. And just like have fun and like get more opportunities. But like honestly, like it's so I know and it's funny because like my family kind of said the same to me, but now they see how amazing Ryan is. But honestly, like it's so nice going through college with someone to go through those experiences with even though they're not like right fireside at that moment, like it's just really nice to have someone else to talk through everything with because college can go lonely. So it's also kind of fun looking forward to seeing her like, you know, like I know I book a flight on my calendar. I always look at it and like kind of like a big thing coming up. It's fun. And we live in cool towns like he lives in Athens. I live in Orlando. There's so much to do. They're worried about like the trust factor like is he can cheat on me. She can cheat on me. Can I have to let that go? Because you're not going to know if it really bothers you that much and just break up with them. Like for me, it's like we've already been dating like four years before we went to college almost or like three years. And I was like, it's not a big deal. I mean, I just didn't even think about it. Like how do you guys maintain such good trust and communication in LDR? Sometimes when he doesn't answer me for a really long time, like, I'm like, Ryan, like, hello, hello, I have like something to tell you, but he's like usually like just napping. So I'm not like studying or going to school. I'm usually just asleep or watching TV. I can't tell you how many times I've made dinner and come upstairs and have like my phone like out of the wireless charger. And it's like, oh, it wasn't buzzed off. I definitely trust him. Like we've been together for so long that it's just like kind of like stupid not to trust you now. Like he hasn't done anything wrong ever. Yeah, but for communication, like I always joke that he's a really bad communicator, but I mean, he's pretty good. He's probably a better communicator than most guys. So for communication, I always make sure like we both have our phones charged, like when we're going out and stuff. And like, not that I want him to like text me every single minute while he's out, but like, I don't know, I just like to have him like snapchat me and like, know that he's like, okay, and just like having fun. Um, but yeah. Again, FaceTime is like my most used app probably. Yeah. Like I don't even text anyone really. Like if I get texts, it's like rare from her thing FaceTime. Best quality about each other. Okay. I have so many to tell you guys about Ryan. First, he's like so selfless. He'll do like pretty much anything for me anytime. And then he's also really forgiving. He's super friendly. So like you can put him in a situation, not knowing anyone and he'll just like talk to anyone or the wall and just like, I mean, like you might feel awkward, but like you don't look at it. Like you look like you're having a grand old time. But like if you put me in that situation, I'd be like, can I go home now? You know, yeah, like on my phone or something. But like, I don't know, Ryan always has a good time. There, there were so many others that I was thinking about. Physical wise, like I love her hair, but when she cuts it, it kind of makes me mad. The longest possible. I can see how like it'd be annoying to be that long. I always cut it when it hits my butt crack. That's when I know. It's time. But all around, I think she's like really funny. Like she makes me laugh like all the time. Yeah, sometimes he's like, you're so funny. I'm like, what, what did I just say? It's like that she's not trying to be funny. So what she does is just funny. But honestly, it's like a doll. Like honestly, you might just say it's like a little puppy doll or something funny. You take laugh, you know, like she's only she knows she's being funny when she does it. I honestly think he's the only person in this world that thinks I'm funny because like everyone else, like it's like shut up. So I'm like, it's also very determined. Like, like you can't really get her off pace. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't know how to put that into words. I have another one. He's really motivated and yeah, but like in high school, like I probably have talked about it before. Like I helped him in biology, but like now he helps me in like all my college classes. Like he's so smart. Like now you're so motivated to like, like get like an amazing life after college and I don't know, that's something like I really admire because I like want to have a nice life. And hopefully I'll be a part of that. So same for her though. She's always on her grind. But she's not doing work. She's like editing a video or something. And kind of like, yeah, I admire that sometimes I look at her laptop and just so much stuff. And I'm like, I wish I had that on my laptop. It's also definitely a weakness of mine. It's kind of hard to just like close the laptop and just know when it's like boyfriend time, you know, there's honestly so many more good qualities about Ryan. But I can't really think of them right now, but you just know that this guy is a really great guy. Okay, next question. Story of how y'all met. Okay, you say this because I feel like I always like tell it. I kind of want to tell this stuff from my point of view. Yeah, I kind of want to hear your point of view. So I was like, you know, like a football player in high school or middle school early. And I don't know, we had a two, so Roswell High School has two like middle schools, a funnel on each other. And it's not cool to talk to them from your own middle school. Like it's cool to talk to them from the other middle school. Honestly. Honestly. That's how it was. So like, she went to like our other middle school. So she was like the cool girl. I thought she was weird. I wasn't cool. She's a cheerleader. It's like, she was cool, but like, so like, I mean, we texted for a while middle school, not like knowing each other that well. Yeah. I thought she was super weird. Like she was like so weird. Honestly, like, looking back at like the way I typed messages, I kind of agree. I was kind of weird. Like her Facebook memories or like, that's why you were weird. Like she said, you know, like I know. She had a long crush on Drake and now she acts like it never existed. In 8th grade, she was my homecoming date from football after her leaving. Like she was assigning me. I didn't like choose her. So it's basically like you just like walk them down. Yeah. And we give her like a flower. I can't even think of the flower. There's really nothing. But that's when she was like, I was like, oh, crap. Not really. But I mean, she was like this tall. Like she's tiny back then. I was like the same size as I was. I haven't grown at all. In between 8th and 9th, we didn't talk that much. In 9th grade, she was my biology class. Uh-huh. And then we started like... Thank God, yeah. I wouldn't even be in college right now. Biology was like my favorite class just because like I knew Ryan was in that class. Not that I had like a crush on him at that time, because it's only only started sophomore year, but I just like loved him as a friend. Like he was like such a cool friend to have. So at the end of freshman year in biology, we started like flirting and stuff. You flirted with him. She, I didn't know she liked me for like the longest time ever. It's sophomore year, six months. I thought you were just friends. She was like in denial or some shit. Like it was so annoying. And the whole school knew, literally everyone knew, and they were like, when are you guys going to date or whatever. I thought she was just nice. Anyways. She's just being a good friend. So it's basically like best friends turning into boyfriend and girlfriend is what happened. That's funny. Is that a Halloween party? And like someone actually told me, I was like, you sure? I don't think so. I think she's just like, she's just the best friends. No, it was, I thought I made it a little bit obvious, but I guess not. And she gave me a girl who made them. She was like, ask me out. Yeah, I literally, I think it was like the day before we got back from school, winter break sophomore year. I was like, dude, what are we? Like, you better ask me out or like this can't be a thing anymore. And like the next day he asked me out and I was like, could you not feel like waited a couple of days because I feel like I just forced you to like date me. But like, look at us now. She forced me to stay with her now too. I can't leave. So we've been dating since sophomore year. So it's been almost six years, January 7th. Tips for making LDRs work in college. I would say just trust the process and kind of go on with it. There would be times that we didn't really know when we would see each other next and that was kind of hard. And I think the longest we've been without seeing each other was like two months or a little bit longer than that. But honestly, like we're really, really fortunate that we are able to like fly to each other or like be able to see each other like almost every other month or every month. I would just say try to see each other as much as possible and try to like have those planned out events. Like I know I want to come back for like this fall fair in Georgia and like I know I want him to come for my semi-formal. So just kind of like plan it out during the year. So we'll give you like hope. I'm also not involved in Greek life. So I'm not constantly surrounded by like girls and parties and stuff. So I don't know if that, like, I can't imagine how she would be if I was like, or if I wasn't pictured with girls on Instagram, like what would happen? You know what I mean? That stuff like doesn't happen. So if you're not involved in Greek life, I think it's a little easier because you will have more time to talk to her also. Yeah, that's true. Sometimes I do feel a little busy and I feel really, really guilty. But honestly, like you just have to like live your college life and like just like talk to them later. Do you see yourself getting married in the future? By the way, you guys are so cute. All right, next. Ryan! There's 21, I'm trying to find the L.A. Oh my god. I honestly thought when I was a little girl, I would be married with a baby by 22. I'm going to be 22 this November. That is insane to me that I thought that age, I would be that way. Little boy, I felt like 45, getting married, having a kid. I'm like 21, yeah. Okay, okay, I get it. I get it. No. What? Time to be 14. We'll compromise at 35. No. What is one of your favorite memories together? I love doing fine, like adventurous days with him. I'll plan out like my whole day like, let's say we go to the fair or like, yesterday we went to Pond City Market and we rode around on these like scooters and like I can't stop talking about it because it was just so much fun. But like doing like adventurous things like that is so much fun with Ryan because like I feel like he appreciates like anything and everything and it just makes me appreciate everything more. Like when we do trips together, it's really fun. Like we went to Savannah one time. We've been to Orlando a few times. I've been to Miami. We've just got like really cool places and like where she always has like her little ice in a rain. No, what is it? You go like Pinterest and get like, he said cool places to eat and places to go. So like she makes like a itinerary this long. Like, you know, like breathe, exhale. I literally say like drive. Yeah, like load car. Like literally I plan out everything to tea but I think it's more efficient that way and we still have like fun. How did your parents react to having a boyfriend? I'm also in my parents are super strict. Okay, let's break the news to them. I don't know if I ever told you guys this but I pretty much kid my boyfriend from my parents for like two or two and a half years. And honestly when I told them I was really anti-climactic because I think they pretty much already knew. They're not that strict. She thought they were some like... I thought they were way more strict. I thought they were way more strict and I thought they would be like so pissed because they've always told me like your education comes first like no boyfriend. So I literally thought it was like no boyfriends. So I don't know. I would never talk about boys around them. I always thought it was like not really a part of my culture too. Like to like say stuff like that. And I mean they kind of like knew because I would go to homecomings and proms with Ryan every year. So like they would always kind of make like slide jokes. Like one time my dad gave me the Stockings Jersey and it said Ryan on the back like Matt Ryan. And he was like here it's like your homecoming date's name. And like he looked at me funny and I was like thanks. Honestly throughout high school they kind of asked me like do you have a boyfriend? Do you have a boyfriend? And I would always say no because I thought they would be mad at me. But when I got into college I kind of gave up and my mom asked me again and then I was like yeah like I do have a boyfriend. And I don't know it was just like super anti-combat. She's like you have a boyfriend. Like yeah I guess you would. She's like Ryan you're like yeah. Yeah it was just and she was just like laughing everything off. It was just weird very uncomfortable. But yeah that is the story. And now I work for her dad now. Like I'm doing an internship with him right now. It's my second internship with him. Like yeah it's I mean they're like really nice. And yeah my parents love Ryan to death. Like my mom always tells me like on the phone she's like smelly Ryan's such a nice guy to you. Like he's a great guy. And I'm like yeah I know. Like I feel like she doesn't even know like all this nice stuff he does for me. But anyway. He's putting up with her day to day. Yeah. What are your future plans after college? Um I don't know. What about you homie? Um I have a plan on being hired before I graduate. Hopefully somewhere. Retweet. And then I'd like to live in home for about a year and save enough to the point where I can either have a down payment for a house. But also just have it in my make account. Or I'm really kind of interested in investing money. I told her I wouldn't want to move. They went there until we had at least 30k in the bank. Yeah. So 60 to buy in total. Or did that mean just in case? Like what if you do want to buy a house? Because you can invest in it right now. Like the market's really good. So like. Look how smart he is guys. I don't know. We were in like Inman Park in the area last night. And it was like a lot nicer than I remember it being. Like I wouldn't mind living down there now. And they have a lot of new houses they're building. Yeah. So I'm not looking to that. But originally you wanted to move to Bucket. Yeah. And like one of the high rises there. Yeah. Find a job and land in Bucket area. So for me I have no idea what I want to do. I really just have so many like things that I am interested in. Like videography. I like digital media. I like graphic design. I like photography. There's so many like creative outlets that I like to do. But I need to find one that like I can you know find a job in. And I don't know how I'm going to do that. So hopefully this year my senior year I'm I will find you know the passion that stands out the strongest and kind of find a job in that. What was your favorite thing about Samelli? My favorite thing about her is just kind of her personality. Like she's either like just excited or she's like crying a lot. Or she's like being super funny and hyper. I don't know. I was like being around her. I suppose I feel like I was like not at home while she's here you know. I don't know her personality. She's also really pretty. She's good fashion too. Ryan actually styles me most of the time. Like I will literally go to him and be like does this match or like what goes with this and how like style me. She doesn't listen. She's asking and whatever. Oh my god. He literally just bought me a wicker hat from Goodwill and he knew that was like the trend. So I'm like really pumped about that. What's your best advice for a smooth enjoyable relationship? I would say just don't let anything be bigger than the love for you. Have you had a person I guess? Like is in like. She gets deep. Like don't like let something make you so angry that I mean it's something justifiable. No I mean don't make it a big deal if it's not a big deal. Yeah. Which is a problem sometimes. Like I mean just don't like there's something that you don't have to fight about and don't fight about it. They can choose your battle. Yeah basically. Why waste the time fighting when you could waste the time having fun together. Like do a new thing together. Like I've never had sushi before. She has an alec but you eat sushi like twice a week. I feel like. Yes. So like I mean anything new like what else I've never done. Winter Grand came in together. Never really been out of the country or someone really. You guys have been together for a hot minute. How do you keep up the romance? Well we're not really together for like nine months ten months out of the year. Yeah. So when we are together it's kind of fun. Yeah. Bob you get tired of her sometimes when she's being. She's getting some nudes sometimes. He's always like okay it's time for you to go back now. But I'm just joking I mean I mean everyone gets moody but. Yeah I feel like since we aren't together half of the year. The time that we are together like we really cherish. Yeah. How has it been sharing two different cultures among each other. Has it been difficult at all. I think it's been really cool that Ryan could see like my culture because he loves Indian food. I feel like before our relationship like he just didn't really know like anything about the Indian culture. I feel like him and his friends would just like make jokes about like you know the Indian culture. But like now he's like totally understands it and like I don't know I hope. I still do have like a more dark sense of humor than most people so like. Yeah. I do find something like funny still. If I do understand culture. Yeah. In everyone's culture more I'm not expected. It just doesn't make sense that I'm funny about it. I don't laugh you know like I don't know like I just do I am. I probably laugh more than I do anything. More than he talks. Yeah. Has one of you ever considered transferring to another one school. Just considered going to UGA. She didn't get into UCF. She was going to Kenesaw. I'll go to UGA. Yeah. Honestly like I probably would have only gone there because it was like in Georgia. I was with Ryan like I was comfortable in Georgia. Like everyone in our high school like went to a Georgia school pretty much. I think most of our high school went to Georgia. There's about probably 17 or 25 kids. Yeah. There's more class. There are my class at Georgia. Yeah. So I was just definitely more comfortable in Georgia and I didn't want to move at all. But my mom like wasn't going to let that slide. Prepaid college. What would you wish them? Yeah. So I had Florida prepaid college funds. So I had to pick a school in Florida which I'm honestly so grateful that that happened. But honestly I've always said to myself and my friends like if I didn't have my sorority capital and like my friends in my sorority and outside of my sorority I would definitely be back in Georgia in a heartbeat. I would go to like a community college if I needed to because like I just would feel so lonely. And like I'm the type of person that if I'm not around people like I will literally get like depressed kind of. Have you ever faced jealousy issues in your LDR? Especially since you're both young college students. Honestly like yes I'm a very jealous person like very. And Ryan's like super not like if anything he'll just make like stupid jokes that like mess with my head but like he's really not jealous. That's more when she yells at me for being jealous. Yeah. And she does the same thing that I do. I'll pretend to be jealous but like this is how ridiculous you're being. Yeah. And I am like is it a big deal now when you do it? That's what I was doing the same thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. So like I don't know. I mean. Kind of puts me at my place. Okay all time favorite restaurants, spots and the Atlanta area. I don't know there's so many. Okay my favorite I probably would say like Pawn City Market and Beltline is like my favorite place now especially with those damn scooters. Check out my Instagram controls my day blog because that's like the scooters I'm talking about but they were so freaking fun. Restaurants I would say 26 Thai kitchen bar so good. Such good Thai food. I love Thai food now. Yeah for sushi I would say Oku has like a beautiful rooftop bar and Umi is our favorite. We're going there tomorrow. And if you're from Athens or Atlanta. Alfredo you know Roussaint. No Roussaint. It's a staple of all the college news. It's so good. No. It's like good again. $1.50 roll. I was not good. Fried rice is like $4. Okay. So it's not appreciated. But in Roswell we have a place called Canton Street. It's like where the city we're from. That's where I used to work. Yeah it's yeah so it's like a. Just like a really cute like area where there's restaurants and shops and stuff like that. It's kind of like it's kind of famous actually one of the best suburbs to live in in America they say. And it's like that's the main reason why is because they have these like nice restaurants and shops just get atmospheres like a lot after five which is a. Avalon and Alfreda is a really good area too. What else. What are cool places. In Buckhead like you know like Lennox Mall it's like I mean it's like it's famous McSong stuff but yeah it is pretty cool. They have like really you know it's pause that has like. Good restaurants yeah and Lennox Mall. I definitely need to write a blog post on my favorite Atlanta places so comment down below if you guys want to see that. How to handle the pressure of being a student. You will learn time management skills. I like I said I'm a planner and I plan my whole day out like to the second sometimes especially when I'm like having such a busy day. I'm really invested in myself isn't like I want to get good grades all the time and I want to do the best I can do but I've taken some really hard classes that to the point or like it's something broken my spirit like I might again like C minus is fine I take it like yeah so like it's just like the pressure of it I would say just finding someone to help you and study and like if you don't understand something they probably will so ask. Yeah together like even the teacher some teachers like I take finance and this teacher would basically call you stupid if you ask a question. He's been studying I mean he's a finance professor like he's been doing for 25 years. That's mean. And he's very stale if you go to Georgia you probably know who I'm talking about. It's fine with the student in the class who understands it. My brother luckily was a finance major and my roommate was also a finance major so they helped me through it and they kind of helped me understand it more so find a resource that helps and takes a lot of pressure off you because you'll know you have someone to go to. That's academic wise I mean living alone scares you or being on your own that's just kind of experience like I was scared to you and I first moved Athens alone I didn't know what to do. Yeah me too. Hardest thing about college? I would say the hardest thing for me at first was definitely moving to a whole new state and not knowing a single person going to college at UCF that was definitely scary because like I said I just wanted to be in my little bubble that I've always been in Roswell and in Georgia so honestly the hardest part was just becoming more independent because I was always dependent on everyone in my life. Hardest part for me is to walk from the MLC North Campus just like straight uphill and actually but like like I said she said I'm like family-oriented I didn't like you know my family that much some of the schoolwork managing it my first couple semesters I took five classes now it's taking like accounting online and taking kind of some like difficult classes yeah so it was hard just to like figure out where your time goes having like a long sponsorship having different classes meeting new people moving it's just like all a lot of ones but it's really once you're there for probably six months you forget you're even yeah you should just it's over like yeah you live there now it's normal yeah it's like it's only scary when you first do it but now I say my hardest thing is some of us I mean some my classes are pretty tough and that's that's the hardest part really how connected are you to Indian culture? So unfortunately I really am not that connected to my culture and like I regret this so much like I wish I could be a part of like these Indian dance groups I did do Bollywood dance I think I was in like middle school or maybe elementary school but I wish I like kept up with that I felt like I wasn't that great so I never went up to higher levels but I've always wished that I actually you know stuck with the Bollywood dance because I feel like that was a great way to meet other Indian girls and honestly my whole life I've been in a community that there hasn't been that many Indian people so I mean I had my like Indian family friends but they all went to different schools and like now we barely see each other we see each other like maybe every November so it's kind of hard being able to connect with my culture when I'm not surrounded by Indian people like ever all right so we are on the last question when did you find out about Sonali's YouTube and how did you feel about it? I think she actually told me maybe like her third video and I was like okay that's cool like I swear I thought you didn't know you didn't hide that long for me at least because you like kind of tripod did a bunch of camera stuff and you just told me I mean I was just like yeah I think I was in one of your maybe first 15 videos probably oh for sure probably so I mean I don't know at first it's kind of weird I didn't know what to say in front of a camera I was just like yeah I was like awkward I was like I don't know what to say I don't know what I do I still feel weird in front of the camera but something gotten better like your vlogs at first I was just like yeah I don't know what to do at all but now I actually talk and we did a boyfriend tag one day and it was like what are like not our half-year anniversary maybe like one year and a half maybe something like that no no it was definitely not that early but it was something like that and we filmed a boyfriend tag and I never gotten made fun of more of my life yeah honestly people at my school like were so mean about it so then I went and privated the video because people were just being so freaking mean and like people in high school at that time didn't really understand YouTube so unfortunately there's a 10th grade too like yeah everyone's mean like yeah but yeah so I have that privated and I'm pretty sure it's still privated but I feel like we did like an updated boyfriend tag if not I don't know I thought we did the jellybean yeah we did the beanboozled challenge I don't really care I'm also for her and I like that she does something that keeps her busy and can make a career out of it all right guys so that is it of our Q&A I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I'll see y'all in my next video bye guys