hola told us oh there we go just waiting for this guy to come here
okay let's try again and the guy's gone now welcome to durango welcome back today is saturday
and um i'm gonna do an update video today but first let me just show you outside let me turn
the camera around hang on how do i do that there we go pretty much normal street it's
not normally this busy what's going on yeah oxo up that direction soriana down there some sort of
papaleria anyway let's go inside my place it's a bit of a mess we're going to sit down there
right anyway let's do this as i said it's saturday it's hot it's sweaty in durango and another thing
to know about durango or mexico in general is there will be noise in the background there will
be dogs barking cars lorries going past sounds like a flipping earthquake sometimes but there's
nothing i can do about it anyway if you're new welcome if you're old or you've been around since
the dawn of time welcome back this is my second video from durango obviously it's not a travel
one that is coming the next one by the way but on the back of the last video many of you well three
of you have asked me um what have i been doing for the last five months where have i been what's been
going on because as you may know i took a five month break from youtube and unbelievably i've
actually planned this video so i'm gonna run through quite a few things some of the things
i'm gonna reference will be from a video that i did on new year's day in poland i'll link it
whichever side it is i'm still getting the hang of youtube again i can't remember which side it's on
anyway let's get going so where have i been since new year's day well i was in poland until the end
of february so as you may know i am obtaining polish citizenship at the moment and i had to
really be there i didn't need to be there but it helped being there because i could drop things off
at the office that i need to go to things like that and it just kind of saved a lot of time
and i was planning to do a lot of things in sort of january february march april you know
like my photoshop my english instagram page update my website etc etc and you know what
i actually got most of that done by the end of february and i was kind of at a point where
i needed to leave the eu because i'm no longer an eu citizen hence i'm getting a polish passport so
my oh whoops so my time in the eu was coming to an end and i had to leave and as i had last year on
many occasions like when i was in belarus when i was stuck there that was a classic yeah i didn't
have any options in terms of where i could go there were options like serbia and north macedonia
again but they were difficult to get to in terms of well expense as well so i decided to come back
to mexico um yeah back to mexico i was intending to come back to mexico in may anyway like now but
i thought why not i might as well just go back there it's somewhere i felt comfortable in and
you're not going to believe this but i stayed in iztapalapa in mexico city for a month
many people were kind of like what the hell are you doing iztapalapa but you know what i
bloody love that place it's kind of like you know when you find somewhere that's like it's just you
you know like a little bit like duranfgo where san luis was you just feel comfortable there
and the thing is it doesn't matter if you feel comfortable in somewhere like establish or you
would prefer to stay in condesa i guess this just shows how much i've grown it doesn't matter who
cares as long as you're comfortable in that place that doesn't matter then i went to guanajuato for
a month you may know i've been there twice before i saw aaron there like two years ago jesus christ
i went there because it was kind of a place i was comfortable with i knew the place but you know
what it wasn't the best decision because the food was awful as always in guanajuato that's going
to be a controversial thing in the comments what do you think of food in guanajuato in comparison
to other places in mexico yeah i thought that going to somewhere that i was comfortable with
was the right decision but actually i kind of lost all the passion that i had for anything
um and i realized that coming out of my comfort zone was the thing i needed to do hence
i am in durango i went to zacatecas for like two nights on the way here because i didn't
want to do that big long trip to durango and now i'm here basically so um obviously i didn't
film any videos in itapalapa l i wasn't intending to because i was taking a break
a much needed break so was that break beneficial you know what it's a yes and no
yes in terms of my creative juices it gave me a break just from that constant producing something
but at the same time and very much when i was in guanajuato probably i kind of realized that
i needed that creativity in my life i wasn't doing anything creative it just became very mundane and
since i started filming videos again it's like oh my god thank christ i have a creative outlet again
and yeah i think it was the right amount of time i took off um it was then overall it was beneficial
and hopefully you'll see that in upcoming videos for some reason i have something wrong with my
speech i have a lisp sometimes that's a new thing um what's next so i mentioned polish citizenship
many of you have surprisingly asked about this so it's there's not really anything to report it's
all ongoing it's a very lengthy process i started it in october last year when i was in toluca and
going to poland as i said was really beneficial because i could have the documents i needed
delivered there i i looked for all the documents myself or should i say my mother and uncle did
um fortunately they will be able to they were able to find pretty much everything i need and
i'm hoping it's a fork on conclusion that i will become a polish citizen but the problem is the
whole process obviously there's the pandemic as well it takes a long time so since the beginning
of april my documents have been in warsaw being reviewed by authorities assuming that all goes to
plan the next step is for a passport application and also some other number that i need i can't
remember those will be sent to mexico city then i can go to the embassy in mexico city to apply
for a passport it will then take about another six weeks to get that and i'm gonna be in mexico until
the end of august at least at the moment primarily to get that sorted out i'm looking at my laptop
i think that's it so what have i been doing yeah so i i kind of wanted to work on other projects so
i updated my website completely um i've done a lot with english teaching in terms of my
instagram page yeah it's a little small thing it's something that kind of what's the word contributes
adds to um what i already do with existing students so it's something that a tool they
can use to kind of benefit themselves but also to to generate new people as well my photoshop
so yeah i'm an amateur photographer i'm nothing special but people have been buying postcards
they seem to be quite popular there are also like prints and i have a separate instagram page so
if there's a particular shot that i think oh that's really really cool i'll put it on that one
um but won't be on my regular instagram but it's just a little project a little bit of fun
youtube merch oh my god so i set up youtube merch so let me show you some right this
is my albus door laptop bag isn't it amazing it's amazing quality and it's just really in i did have
a t-shirt in the same design but unfortunately it was stolen off the washing line in iztapalapa
double brilliant um i have some more replacements on their way by the way but there are there are
loads of different options on my website as well as on youtube if you look under this video you'll
see merch but it's not the same because i had to use a different supplier also with teaching
english i've kind of changed it a bit in terms of developing more of a niche so i wrote an ebook
last year about business english and it's kind of gone down that route i have a lot of people that
work in i.t people that are looking for jobs with amazon google things like that and it's just a
more of a niche that i can go down so i'm kind of developing that at the moment okay videos what am
i going to be doing so i kind of want to go back to what i used to do so as well as proper travel
videos you know like the big dramatic edited ones with the music um they'll be like one a week of
them i'm also gonna be doing videos like this like sit down videos i'll be doing adding value
working wednesday videos which like something to do with digital nomad life um i will also be
doing let's walk around videos i did them before guanajuato and somewhere else that was it well
i basically just walk around with no music no me talking it's just sights and sounds of the place
it might be like 10 minutes long of walking around let me know if you're interested in that because
actually the guanajuato one i did three years ago is still like one of my most viewed videos so
it's clearly something that works so um there's that what else will i be doing hang on hang on
that's it i've also got a drone which is in my bag somewhere um yeah you would have seen that
in the last durango video just occasional drone shots to set the scene there won't be any like
only drone shots because i think i would shoot myself so what does the future look like as i said
i'm going to be in mexico until the end of august um i always wanted to come to the north of mexico
it always seemed like a bit of an enigma because so many people including me stick to the relative
comfort of central mexico you know the places like guanajuato san miguel i would never go there again
san luis tlaxcala puebla you know all of those places in central mexico that are so commonly
visited but somewhere like durango um chihuahua that places like that sonora etc are lesser
visited that's not even proper grammar so i really want to go to places as i did last year new places
that people aren't that people don't traditionally go to to kind of see a different side of mexico
as i said like enigma it's like it does kind of feel like it's a different country in a way um
a bit like the uk on a larger scale because when we talk about the south of england where i'm from
and the north it's like a completely different world so i'm curious to kind of investigate
that i've been to monterey before a few years ago but i didn't film any videos there and i kind of
sensed a bit of that there um so far i'm loving durango so i'm looking forward to the next to
the next four months of travel um in mexico the ultimate future and this is gonna be the shock
part of the video like a sexy youtube couple i'm thinking of changing my life completely
i'll probably do another video in detail about this but as you know i went to latvia last year
love latvia i love riga and um i kind of want to stop i kind of want to settle down
in the future even though i settled down in my 20s and that didn't really work out
hence i'm doing this now yeah i'm thinking of once i've got my polish citizenship i am i'll be an eu
citizen again i could move to riga i want to get a proper apartment for like six months to a year
get two cats you know i love beautiful angels right which i haven't seen now for 150 days
no cats in mexico um yeah and just settle down a bit i will probably continue doing what i'm
doing in terms of videos and uh teaching english but ultimately i would love to get
back to as i called it well not me i didn't call it this but a student called it this in a lesson
loser syndrome having a nine to five that's not being a loser it's perfectly
acceptable to have a normal job working for someone and that's kind of what i want
i'm coming full circle so i don't know what that looks like at the moment it's very far distant in
the future it's just an idea so um that's that i wanted to say about polish citizenship once i have
got that passport in my hand i will do a video about the whole process because at the moment
there's just no point me doing that because i don't know if it's gonna happen so i would prefer
to do that when it's done um also i'll talk about other routes to become an eu citizen again if you
are for example from the uk whatever or even from the us if you've got ancestry in various countries
so um that's it um i think that's everything i am doing a live stream in about four hours and i'm
filming the next video tomorrow so um stay tuned for them it's good to be back in mexico i need a
drink now because i'm sweating like a pig i will see you soon um in the next one catch you later