Good morning and welcome to my ASMR video
just kidding it's time to wake up. For the first few days that I was here I
really had trouble waking up and I was probably just sleep-deprived from Lisbon
but now I'm doing better so I only need a few minutes of rubbing my eyes before
I can force myself out of bed to start my morning routine. So the first thing
that I do in the morning is I go to the bathroom, I splash my face with cold
water, and then I put in my contacts in order to be able to see. And then I go
back to my room to listen to some music, do some stretches, do some ab exercises,
get fit, get PUMPED FOR THE DAY and then I go wash my face.
Usually by this point
the sky is starting to turn really pretty colors so of course I could not
resist myself and I had to take a time-lapse. I moisturize my face and then
I sit down at my desk to do a little bit of morning journaling. I like to free
write, then write down three things I'm excited about for the day as well as my
monthly affirmation. And if you were wondering this video is not sponsored by
Dasani. I recently picked up a Moleskine notebook and I've been using it as sort
of a bullet journal because I don't really need all the features of digital
planning right now and I think it'll also serve as a super cool, like, tangible
souvenir of this entire trip. Ah look, the sky is even more aesthetic now, time to
wake up the girls. Once they're up and they're getting ready I go into the
kitchen and I check what we're having for breakfast. It usually doesn't really
involve any cooking it's just like setting the table and filling their milk
glasses, and then for myself I made some oatmeal because I love oatmeal and I
also had the toast that I cooked a little bit too much. We all have
breakfast and then we get ready to leave the house by 8:55 so that we can make it
to school on time. We take the really short walk over, they
hug me goodbye, and then I have the day to myself! So I don't know what is so
special about the skin care products that I bought at like a grocery store
here but they are working so well on my skin, and I literally just like chose the
cheapest things that they had available. So I bought toothpaste, a razor, face
cleanser, moisturizer, and toner all for about eight euros which comes to about
nine dollars. So yeah, when I get home I'm gonna have to like, import skin care
products from Spain. Today is one of my busier days in terms of what I have to
do for like, my job. I got the girls ready for school in the morning which I do
every weekday morning, and then we are going to their language class in the
evening so I have from about 9:15 a.m. to like 4:30 p.m. free. So on most days
I've just been walking around by myself but today I'm actually meeting up with
an Instagram friend. *yawn* so that should be fun. Now I'm gonna
finish getting ready and then I think I'm gonna do some work on my blog and
then we're gonna go. While I'm on this trip I'm trying to just like enjoy the
daily routines of life more, so when I'm at home I usually don't do my makeup
because I'm either not going out or I just don't care, but it's kind of fun so
I'm making time to experiment with that while I'm here. I had a little bit of
time to get some work done so I responded to some emails from some
people that I'm coaching on like productivity and habits and such and
then I responded to YouTube comments and then I found I was running out of time
which always seems to happen so I rushed to pack my backpack and then I left for
the metro.
I love the Metro but it's taken some getting used to because in Madison I
always get around by car and so missing the train or overcrowded trains or even
getting on the wrong train are just not things that happen... eventually though I
made it to the Malasana neighborhood where me and Lindeay decided to meet at
a cafe. Lindsey is from the United States but she's studying in Madrid and she's
the nicest human being ever. She took me to this bookstore that's super cute but
more importantly has a cat and then we just walked around the Malasana
neighbourhood. Afterwards we took the metro down to el Matadero which is
like an artist center according to Google Maps but apparently they only
have events on weekends because we went on a weekday and it was completely like,
barren. It almost reminded me of that scene in Shrek where they arrived in
Duloc City and it's just a ghost town
It's quiet... too quiet.
So after that interesting little excursion we were very hungry so we went to a restaurant
for lunch. After we went our separate ways I started on my way home but then
when I got to the station where I was supposed to switch trains, I decided that
I wanted to just do some more walking, and so I got out and I explored another
neighborhood that I hadn't seen yet and just fell in love with Madrid a little
bit more. You know when you're sitting and you don't feel like you have to pee
but then you start walking and then you do... I'm having regrets right now. I also
wanted to quickly stop by the Jardin Botanico because it was free that day
but I was too naive to realize that if it's free then there's gonna be huge
lines, so we're gonna visit that another day. Once I got home I went and picked up
the girls from school, we ate really quickly and then we got on
the bus to take them to German class. While they're studying I usually sit in
the cafeteria to wait for them so today I worked on my bullet journal. By the
time they were done it was almost 9:00 and really dark outside so we went home
for dinner. While the older girl and my host mom went to the grocery store to
get some food, me and the younger girl got dinner ready by setting the table
and warming up the food. We also washed the dishes, we got everything done, and
then we had some extra time before they got home so she taught me how to make
rainbow loom bracelets. After dinner, where I get to practice my Spanish
conversational skills every day, I went back to my room and got started
on my bedtime routine. The first thing I did was I took out my contacts, so as you
can see I had a lot of trouble figuring out if the camera was in focus.
I first responded to emails and messages just like I do at home, then I checked up
on my bullet journal, I crossed off what I got done and what I need to do the
next day. I also like to track my steps in there because right now walking is
pretty much the only exercise that I do so I want to hit like at least 20,000
each day on average. Again I do some journaling, some stretching, and then I
get into bed, and that's the end of the day. Thank you for watching and I'll see
you next week :)