Oh hello, well, I didn't expect to see you there. Gonna walk around the bed like this
Hello welcome everyone to German month on the Evan Edinger channel if you new here or if you're old
You might not realise I've moved to Munich the entirety of September and October and I am loving it
This move has been a big surprise for a lot of people
I know both close and online and it's like why did you do this, where's this come from?
There's a lot of different reasons one of the biggest reasons I've done this is because
I REALLY WANT TO LEARN GERMAN
Okay, I don't want to just commit half time. I'm going all out with this thing. Okay, you talk to anyone
You know, how did you really get good and fluent in another language?
nine times out of ten they move to the country
The language is spoken and used it daily. That's what I've got to do right got to go out of my house
Stop making YouTube videos and start speaking the language speaking sprache
however
I'm using my trip to Munich as an opportunity to become better as a human overall and as an adult because here's the thing
Alright. I'm 28 years old. I'm an adult and I'm still lacking in certain crucial skills
I think all adults must have and I'm using this trip to Munich as a chance to change myself.
One of the biggest phobias I have is getting stuck in a rut
I think I've mentioned this before like I used to work a minimum-wage job
to get enough money to put gas in the car to drive the minimum wage jobs put enough money to cast the car and just
kept going. I felt like I was stuck. I hate the feeling like life is taking me along a path
You know, I like to make my own path. I carved my own way
I do not want to feel like a rock tumbling along in a river wherever the river is taking me
I'm taking my own brook. Okay? I'm taking the one over that way. I'm making a tributary to myself. Okay?
That's what I want to do
That's what this trip was for you might be thinking: Evan you travel a lot you seem to have a lot of different things going on
How do you feel like you're in a rut?
but I feel like certain ways life gets formulaic life gets easy
And I do not want it to be like that. You know, I work two days a week I make videos once a week
I played for Fortnite on Twitch every night
You know, I've got this system worked out. I hang out with the same group of friends in the UK and London
It's very formulaic and I wanted something drastic to get me out of that do something different
What is a more drastic way than to move countries? There isn't okay, except death. Maybe we're not getting that dark here
But yeah, I moved to Munich. Now I do not have that friend group here. I cannot just speak English everywhere
I have to learn this other language and now I can get out of certain bad habits that I've put into practice
One of the big things as an adult. I think you need to have under your belt is cooking
I'm bad at cooking. Okay, it is not a joke. You talk to any my flatmates, you talk to most people I know
I am notoriously bad. How do I eat you? You might wonder. I make microwave meals or I order takeaway
It's pretty simple. You might be thinking Evan what? you've done cooking your videos before!
Yeah, I have done cooking videos before pancakes and grilled cheese. Whoa. I know how to make good cuisine here!
There's only like two ingredients for these now. I'm very good at making those but it doesn't really matter
That's not a life skill
Like I said, I'm mostly getting microwave meals and things and here's the thing about my current flat
this flat doesn´t even have a microwave!
how am I supposed to cook the microwave meals? I can´t ! i don´t even know how to reheat things!
it turns out you can just put them in the oven, it just takes a bit longer
STILL!
yes, so I don't even have a microwave here
And even if I did I don't even know if the Germans have microwave meals here, so that's a good thing
Okay
I am forcing myself not to eat like that anymore force myself to teach myself a skill and one of the skills that I'm going
To be teaching myself while I'm in Munich is how to cook the issue is I know how to do some different recipes
But I get such anxiety when I think about like, okay, here's a giant recipe now
I have to go to the store and get each one of those things just to this stupid thing
I hope the food doesn't go off
if i don't use it in time better cook it, it takes three hours and oh my god. There's too much thing in my head
I'm just gonna buy something easy. That's what always ends up happening
However, if I memorize these recipes if I put these into practice and make them every.single.week
This would no longer be such a big hassle to me and it will be something easy and something that comes out of my mind
And less stressful so that's what I'm gonna be doing. Come with me to the kitchen. Let's get cooking
so today the meal in which I'm going to be making is some Wiener Schnitzel and some Kartoffel Salat
i´m very excited. I bought all these ingredients, broke the bank, but hopefully it'll be worth at the end when I have a delicious tasty german meal
let´s go!
alright so I've diced a lot of potatoes. Alright, we've also got some bacon cooking up here
I've cut some onions. I've cried my tears and now it's time to do .. that´s the potato salad part. That's mostly kind of stewing
It's brewing. Now I've got to do the veal bit, gotta cook some stuff in breadcrumbs. I've never done this
*Singing*
Alright so now it's the parts where I grab the veal
Cover it in flour here. Nice. Make sure it's covered
Then I put it in this eggy mixture of oil, egg, pepper and then I put it
in another thing here. This is breadcrumbs. Just making sure it's evenly coated and then after that
We lay it, it should be sizzling, the pan is not hot enough .. woops
honestly, I am pretty proud of myself
here we have a finished Kartoffel Salat
Basically, it's just got bacon, little coriander/parsley. onions and potatoes obviously
we got the Schnitzel
The Schnitzel´s looking pretty schnit if I say so myself
So here is my finished dish the kartoffel salat und the Wiener Schnitzel. Let's see how it tastes
So here is my dish
Looking forward to this, should probably get a knife
looks like it's well cooked. We got a nice
color, nice color to the
breadcrumbs there looking real like a snack
It´s good!
and now for the potato salad
Oh my god
that is so much better than I expected oh my gosh
Thank You kitchen Evan
Now, obviously making the dish once isn't really gonna do anything
like I said
I need to have these memorized, these recipes memorized
So it's no longer a stressor for me to go get the ingredients and then cook the dish
So I'm going to be making that dish
Four times this month along with a couple other dishes not just German dishes that would be funny, go to Germany come back guys
I know how to make the best Schnitzel
Now before I get into the angry german comments already in the comment section like that was not correct I´m cringing
Listen, I couldn't find the right thing. I know I needed veal possibly some like pork or chicken. I went with veals mom
Okay, just beef it worked out. Okay. I know it's not the way you're supposed to make it
It's just hard enough to find ingredients. Let alone in a language that's not your mother language. Okay, Kalbfleisch
They didn't happen. They didn't have it at the extra store I went to okay ? let alone. also that potato salad
You might be an American going: When isn't a potato salad 80 percent mayonnaise? It's a different recipe
Also, it's not really potato salad ends up being something called bratkartoffeln. It was delicious, by the way
I cannot understand that enough. I really love that dish
I cannot wait to make it again next week
But I need to also learn how to make a traditional Bayern potato salad now. It's on my list of things to do
I'm gonna learn how to make potato type things, burrito type things (that I've never just done like bean burritos), chicken based , fish-faced
I'm going to have at least five dishes by the end of this trip in my noggin 100%
also, if you enjoyed that cooking segment, wanna know more about how I've been adjusting to life in Munich
I have actually included that and a lot more on my Travel Channel so youtube.com/EvanEdingerTravel
youtube.com/EvanEdingerTravel check it out
Get a lot of blogs over there from Munich.
so good language skills taken care of, cooking skills taken care of
now the next one is Fitness. I have a good metabolism and I´m actually quite healthy naturally
I don't eat the best but that's changing. Like I said, however, I do go on these running stints were like two three periods
I'm like, I'm gonna run all the time and then I just stop life gets in the way I get stuck in this situation
I'm like
Oh
I just can't do it now because it's too late or because it's too rainy and I stop and this is a big issue for me
however, what I'm gonna do when in Munich besides cook and learn a language better myself. Okay, I'm gonna be doing running
I'm so close to the English garden. It is a beautiful place. You know what let me take you there
Let's go out for a run.
so I'm about to start my run today in the englischer garten
I'm so happy that I live in this beautiful area. It's sunset right now. Check out this view. Oh my god
Just 10 more minutes to run and I'm in the walk period right now. It is it is a beautiful evening.
I hate running
I hate this
but it feels so good back to you Evan on chair
ooh, yes. So basically I'm working on my fitness
Okay
That's something I'm actually going to be doing not just once not just going for a run for video being like ha got em
No, that is something I'm going to do every single day at least three to four times a week
That is my goal, i'm seting myself that thing and I'm actually going to do it. I'm gonna progress through my app
I'm gonna be able to run a 5k by the end of this month
I'm trying to take control of my life in many different ways now Fitness covered cooking covered language covered
What's a big part of an adult's life mental health? Okay. I know there's a buzzword on YouTube
It's a buzzword in any society
say much to help and people be like oh I relate
but in reality like I do feel like I have pretty okay mental health
I have a very good supportive group of friends that will help me and talk to me if ever I have issues
but I know I'm definitely not alone on this when you're gushing your guts out there and you're telling people how you feel and then
You're like, oh I'm burning too much. Oh, you know, they probably want to listen
Oh, I do this too, you know and I don't like feeling of that
I know that it's probably dumb to feel like that. But hey, that's how I feel. However one good way right
I'm away from all my friends right now. I'm in a different country to fix the situation and make my mental health even better
Stepping it up. I'm going to some therapy. I'm actually going to go to therapy now. It is annoying. I'm in a different country
So I can't just bring the therapist along with me and bring him back to the UK so I can keep the same therapist
Yes, but any step towards better mental health is a step in the right direction. It's a bit pricey out here as well
But the Germans basically invented therapy. In fact, they invented the word die Therapie
I know German, but yeah in this step alone
I'm going to be taking control of my mental health talking to professional and figure out what makes me tick
Why is it that I've been single for so long?
because the fact that I always push people away or find some red flags that don't even exist so that I subconsciously stop liking someone
That seems to be annoying seems to be something that comes up in my life all the time
So instead of constantly like complaining about it to myself and say I'm gonna do something about it
I'm gonna do somebody let's get some real therapy. I don't know what this accent is. We're gonna do something now
Let's get back in the other room.
Here's the thing. I'm bringing it back to old-school YouTube
This is a video diary of my life. This is a V blog a V log. This is a traditional vlog
This is how it used to be. This is how I'm bringing it back
my first week, this week that you're watching right now
I'm setting my expectations for what I want to get out of this trip. The next week
I want to do a
Moving Q and A about anyone that's ever thought about like moving countries or learning another language because I've done it twice at this point
I'd love for you to send me any questions that you can in the comment section below and I'll be answering any of them that you have
hopefully we can get them all centric to this topic. It's not just gonna be a standard Q&A
I'll throw some puns in
You know
I can't help myself with the puns every once in a while but I want it to be very centric and a helpful video
next week I wanna make a video reacting to German youtubers. I've never really watched that many
So if you have any funny ones, like I said leave it in the comments now I've asked before but this is German one
So I'm making all this stuff about German content
I think it'd be a fun video and also
Being able to listen constantly to how fast these Germans speak whether they are from Stuttgart
Or maybe they're from Munich or possibly Frankfurt, Cologne
There's a lot of different places in Germany and hopefully I can pick up the different accents guess where they are
It'll be a fun video and it's going to pair well with the course I'm taking, the language course every day
So hopefully this is gonna really really go into my brain. My German is getting better the next week
I might be making a video talking about a specific law. I don't like that Germany has, just you know voicing my concern
I definitely think it's an important topic regardless of if you are a German or English because these laws that Germany has
Could potentially move over to the UK or the US
So I think it's important to talk about
And lastly the coup d'etat or the no more ions
I don't how to say it in German to be honest
This is why I'm here
The best most important thing that will come out of this trip is my final video
Video completely auf Deutsch it's going to be my German video
now I know that with a half a million subscribers here less than 10% of you probably even know the first German word: Hallo
There you go, taught you a word today. But it's something that I want to make and I'm going to have English subtitles
of course, and I'm probably gonna be bad at it, but it's something that excites me
It's something that I've wanted to do for so long and I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. That is my goal
Okay, that is my whole timeline of events for the month of Evan EdinGerman, alright, welcome to Evan EdinGerman everyone
There's the pun
We're here to stay. And I just want to say before I go not anything about liking or subscribin or anything like that
This is such a personal thing to me
What I really want to say is please
If you can do something different in the next week
or even the next month do something that scares you because this feeling of being here and being so out of my comfort zone is
Terrifying I'm not lying
It is very scary
but it is such a high feeling and I
wouldn't not want anyone to have this (double negatives everone) and I really wish that everyone got a chance to experience
this feeling and I'm very thankful that I can and let's hope that it works maybe by the end of this month
I am even worse at German. I hope not. We'll try our best
But if you're new here or if you're old here, i just wanna say thank you very much for following me along for my journey
It's going to be exciting and hopefully by the end of it a whole German video.
I'll see you guys next week. Good. Bye
We're back to the bed. We've got a bed we can lean back, we can come forward. Thanks for watching the video
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