daily:
♡ vocabulary and grammar practice
♡ lessons (i have four lessons per week at school. if you don't already take lessons, look into free language courses on alison, coursera or 101 languages)
once per week:
♡ translate a short text (i like to translate my journal entries)
one per fortnight/month:
♡ watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movies as the language used is easier. you can watch with subtitles
additionally:
♡ talk to yourself; your friends; your pets in your target language
♡ text with someone in your target language
♡ repeat what you hear (in a podcast, lesson or movie)
23.04.2024 // some affect theory and writing on a fairly warm day. i'm taking it slow this week, mostly because i feel lazy and kind of...blah.
affect always escapes any attempt to explain or understand it because it lies outside of language or cognition. perhaps that explains why affect seems so vague and abstract. im trying to figure out if affect theory will be useful for my research but I won't pursue it if it continues to be beyond my grasp.
b) frustration because the heat is stopping me from doing anything productive
c) being at the peak of productivity and completing all the assignments
d) being burnt out and not being able to do anything for the rest of the month
e) taking small trips and recovering from tiredness while also falling ill due to heat
honestly, it’s supposed to be spring right now! and it feels like summer near the equators.
I took a small trip to the hill yesterday, perks of living by the cost and the hills i suppose? it really helped me with me being burnt out but hey we all need break sometimes!
I hope to be more productive from now on. Plus this week consist of tests everyday! Hopefully I survive this month and the next.
had critique today and went better than expected. decided to go to the library to get up to date with my academic writing notes since i got a bit behind because of thesis work.
last time i made a promise to myself that i would do 100 days of productivity (march 9). i broke that promise, only posting consistently for 14 days.
and i think it was because of these things.
i had too many non-negotiables, which made starting each day overwhelming
i didn't let posting become a habit, and gave up when it got hard
i was focusing on achieving 100 days when i was still only a couple days in. i need to simply focus on the days around me--getting better than i was yesterday, and setting myself up for tomorrow.
and so, here are my new non-negotiables:
daily posts
and that means posts that i write on the day! not scheduled posts!
eating wholesome foods
that are good for my mind and body
maintaining the habits that i have built of:
study, sleep, stretching and training
Due to lack of funding, public universities in Argentina are in risk of closing. Over 2 million students are about to lose their access to free education.
Here is a link to a petition on change.org to help. It's just signing and it only takes five minutes!
If anyone knows more resources to help, please reblog with the links!
24.04.2024 // slowly becoming one with this desk. the wires bother me a lot so i've sought advice from a friend on how to organise them better. hopefully, they'll stop looking like such dump. a colleague also donated her french press to the office, which means that i don't have to spend $10 on coffee everyday because frankly, that is utterly absurd and I had, in fact, stopped drinking coffee for a while. but can't do without that caffeine; it keeps me functioning.
Finals season has really crept in now, and I don’t think I’ve ever been so busy. Here’s to hoping my grades will be as bright as the spring sun outside.
I didn't study much on the 21st so u can say studying for almost 5 hrs was some guilt-driven motivation, but it helped :)
I haven't been going out a lot even tho the doc said i must "breath fresh air" everyday. So i played some badminton with my brother yesterday (i was so bad at it) but something's better than nothing.
From tmrw i want to get out consistently atleast once a day /goal 🎯
Stuff i did:
Textbook reading/summarizing
Made flashcards for 1 chp
Revised 1 chp (this was a first bcs i havnt finished half the chps so revision for 1 is great)
23 cards reviewed
I want to keep up with yesterday's flow even today, so manifesting a productive day for me as well as you 💖🫶
i feel like a spent a lot of time revising yet did so little. it took me 2 hours to learn twelve flashcards and i didn’t even finish learning them. remembering biology is so hard, but it’s ok, i have tomorrow .*ೃ