Wow!
This is really beautiful.
Hello.
Lara, how are you this morning?
Gabi
Here's Duc, our neighbour
Where are you from?
City boy!
City boy.
Mandu
Oh, my God, this was so much fun. To celebrate Lunar new year, our university
created a Mandu making event. Mandu is dumplings that are often eaten on Solal
So Gabi is going to have the prettiest daughters.
Look at this thing.
Aww!
Look at my ugly children.
[laughter]
This man is on the dating scene.
How sweet! Welcome to Mandu. Gabi is cooking.
[music playing]
Tour your finger around this water and you go around the edge in the water like...
[music playing]
Now, we're going to fill in
[music playing]
Beautiful daughter. This is a beautiful son.
[laughs]
Oh, my son 😀
Gabi you need to have more kids
So pretty
Oh, baby
Look at this!
And as my university life occurs,
I generally spend most of my time studying
Study, yoga, sleep, repeat. Add a bit of cooking, add a bit of chatting with friends
Add a bit of exploring my area.
Studying.
[Music Playing]
How long have you been working on this assignment today?
From 8:00 AM this morning.
Hey guys. So this is just a very random roommate moment.
What time is it? 11:30.
I'm genuinely curious.
Has anyone ever heard or used the word aplomb?
Parting in speakers. What do you use for [Foreign Language] in English?
Because that's what we were trying to explain Jade and Google said it's aplomb.
Aplomb! I've never heard the word aplomb.
It does exist. So now we're like, we need to use this word in a sentence in class.
Yes, that's a challenge for tomorrow.
Yes. Aplomb
Lara, can you demonstrate, uses of the word aplomb?
yes, I can. Diana aced the test with aplomb.
That was a bit easy. Give another sentence.
Use it in context with us.
I cannot because I don't understand it's meaning.
What?
Lara speaks with aplomb
with aplomb
Gabi, wow, you're amazing
Hello, beautiful friends.
Firstly, as I think I mentioned to you, I'm not going to clean the room when I film.
So, enjoy the realty of a midweek room.
I just want show and chat for a bit.
If I'm completely honest,
I think one of the reasons I struggled so much to blog and often feel more
disconnected from the online world is because it's so incredibly hard to film
when you have two roommates.
Don't get me wrong.
From the perspective of the university experience.
I love my roommates.
I think, especially during current times where so many people are alone,
like I'm more grateful than ever for the social life that I have here.
But yeah, there are moments where I feel so inspired.
I'm like, Oh my God, I just want to create, I want to chat.
I want to catch up with you guys.
And someone is taking a nap or like someone has to do an essay
or we're just all chatting.
Like, I don't know. So I am taking this opportunity
where they are both out just getting dinner and I'm just gonna catch up with you.
Maybe I'll start with my casual magic of the day.
So while I was having dinner, I just felt really in the mood to watch a BTS video.
I don't know if you know who BTS are. If you don't know, don't worry.
I didn't know who they were for ages, but you're missing out.
BTS are the most well-known K-pop band.
And people generally don't just like BTS.They stand BTS.
They are an army. Fans of BTS are so intense.
They are literally called army. And I think I am becoming an army.
Hear me out here.
Their music is so incredibly deep for what is just pop music.
In the West, Pop music is normally about love or money or relationships.
And often at quite a surface level.
I'm not judging pop. I'm just saying that that is generally true.
But one of BTS's albums is literally called Map of the Soul.
Of the soul, the explore, the ego and the shadows of you and the self.
They have an album called Love yourself.
And it's all about the relationship with you.
There's a really inspiring song called Zero O'clock
And it's the idea that every day when it hits midnight, you've got a fresh day.
You got a fresh perspective that even if your mental health, for example is really
bad one day, you've got a fresh start.
Like What? That's just amazing. Their songs are bops. They are incredible dancers.
And I just go back and watch their videos and find so much joy in it.
So my casual magic was watching A boy with love the music
video for like the fifth time and just soaking it up, enjoying my life.
Also, I've joined a vegan cooking group and it's changing my life and productivity.
Firstly, it's not that easy to vegan in Korea.
It's doable. Plainly vegetarians, not that easy.
I tend to eat very similar meals.
I've had to adapt my cooking to the ingredients I can get here.
I'm also not a very good cook and don't really care that much for cooking.
So I don't put that much effort in. But my standard meal is like tofu,
some vegetables, rice or rice noodles,
and then teriyaki sauce, soy sauce or something like that.
Some rancho maybe, but it's super time consuming to cook.
And it's expensive when you're always trying to buy for yourself.
And I get uninspired because I keep eating the same thing.
And so, a solution. Me and some of the vegan students here are now
part of a vegan cooking group.
Once a week, I cook for all the people in the vegan cooking group.
They can come, they can get that food.
And it means that every other day of the week, someone cooks for me.
Amazing. I just go, I get my dinner.
We have a Splitwise account, which is an app that automatically splits costs.
Most of my dinners work out the equivalent of about a dollar, which is really good.
That's just been really nice for optimizing my time.
And some of the people in the vegan cooking group are amazing cooks.
So I benefit from people's skills. I save time and eat good food.
We love health Also, it's just gone March.
What! Where is this year going?
March is a special month to me because it's Pisces month, and I am a Pisces.
My birthday is the 17th of March.
It's also indicative of spring.
And I just think it is a great month. I'm incredibly biased.
But I also had this crazy realization today.
I'm turning 21 this month.
21 years old.
I'm still processing, 21yrs.
I remember turning 18yrs and being like, "No way, am I becoming an adult.
I started secondary school yesterday, no. Then cool. 19 is not a bigger deal.
It's basically 18.
You can still screw up.
And you're just, you're just 19. You're a teenager."
Then 20 comes and you're like, "Oh my God, I'm not a teenager anymore?"
But 21, I feel like that is the pure start of adulthood.
And that is insane.
And I know that age is just a number. And I know it doesn't matter in life experiences
and everything that contributes to who you are more than some number, but wow,
I really am becoming an independent adult.
It actually has been starting to hit me recently, too
how I can just cope on my own.
I can do stuff. I can adult. It's hard.
I really crave my mom a lot, but I can adult.
That's really cool.
Now that it's March, I have been setting some intentions and I have
been pouring my heart and soul into two projects. And they're kind of coming
to fruition a little bit in March too.
So I've never been as busy as I think I am right now, but I just feel so humbled,
truly,
by the opportunities. Like my life, I just look, I look ever since I've
finished secondary school to now,
I've lived such a great life.
Like, 15 year old me would be looking at Jade turning 21
and be like, "Damn damn, that's insane." You know, yeah.
Yeah, just with things coming to fruition,
being able to hold my own business e-course, joke! Cool.
That is also, I've got two business courses this semester
and I just think it's so fun.
It's so cool.
We need more strong women in business.
I was thinking there was so many stereotypes around business being
such a manly male dominated harsh world, and that things like kindness,
colour, fun aren't valued as much in the business world.
I'm just very grateful for
the opportunities and for the stuff I get to see right now. One word which
I'm going to carry into March is balance.
All-nighters who've never done one, not going to do one now,
even when this is a work, even when there's always assignments.
Health.
Yes, there's a lot of work, but Oh, roommates, they matter.
How has your day, you know, tell me about your day.
Give me your feelings. All of it.
It's going to be a month of slaying the work, but also balancing how I feel.
Checking in with me, doing my yoga, doing my good routines.
I've gone through too much mental health difficulty.
This month is balance. This month is good energy. I'm excited. Let's do it.
Thank you so much for watching.
What was something casual, mundane in your every day today
that you can be grateful for?
AKA. What was your casual magic of the day?
Have a beautiful one.
BYE!