it's time to go back to school after two and a half years oh my goodness
so this is my new home i'm studying digital communications and media at ie university in
spain and this is how my first week went
so apparently we're supposed to dress semi-formally for this no one told us
this we didn't get an email but word has been going around and everyone's trying
to figure out what we're supposed to wear this is the closest thing i have to formal
i still don't have a lot of my clothes my parents are supposed to send them over
for shoes i literally only have sneakers and sandals so sneakers will have to do for today
so something i like to do when i want to be really efficient is get ready during
my pomodoro breaks so i had a few hours to work on my video script and then any
time that i took a break i would incrementally get ready like put on my clothes or do
a little part of my makeup this is the best i could do with the wardrobe that i have right now
we got a bunch of merch so a duffel bag um a little thermos cup and then a branded face
mask and there were also boxes of red bull but i'm not into energy drinks so i didn't
take that i thought that was a little weird that our university is sponsored by red bull
the opening ceremony is basically just to welcome all the new students it was a little repetitive a
little boring otherwise the important part of today was the club fair where we got to
go around learn about all the clubs and sign up for any that we were interested in before i
came here i told myself beatrice do not sign up for any clubs you have youtube you have school
you're gonna have a full plate already and then i put my email on like six lists so hi beatrice
after lunch i went with a friend to do a little shopping we went to flying tiger
a home goods store and a grocery store it was raining the whole time and i did
not have an umbrella but at the end of the day i got everything that i needed
i find it very difficult to wake up here because the sun rises a lot later
apparently spain is like in the wrong time zone or something i heard that somewhere
but breakfast is my favorite time of the day so that does motivate me to get out of bed
so yesterday i actually lost my key card one time i did lose it and i spent like half an
hour looking for it in my room and then i found it in the trash this time i lost it for real
so today we had our first sort of classes it wasn't as fun as i thought it would be
what we started with was just a presentation about how some of the things in the degree
are gonna work and then we did icebreakers the first one was like the most basic get to
know you questions and that was actually okay but then the next activity was where you had to like
come up with a team logo motto and mission which was just confusing one group actually did really
well and they won by a landslide because at the end we voted they talked about like how they were
all from countries that in the past have been colonized by spain but now they were coming to
spain and sort of like taking over the university and so their logo was an uno reverse card and that
was by far the most creative thing anyone did there i actually had two exciting things planned
for today and both of them were cancelled because of the weather but first of all i was supposed
to meet with an american student who's studying abroad here but not at my university and then i
was supposed to i was signed up for this speed like meet and greet event like speed dating
except just like not dating i was actually pretty excited but that's not happening because it's
raining all week i do have some work that i need to do but my brain's just not really into it right
now i just have to get into it i guess also i think i'm hungry so i need to fuel my brain
come on come on
so i have a full meal plan and i eat lunch and dinner at the cafeteria the food has actually
been amazing i look forward to every meal time um yeah i just i just love eating okay
the first week that i was here for some reason i just did not want to call my family at all
but enough time went by and it was really nice to talk to them
um my dad like went through the boxes of clothes in my closet that i had at home
and i had to figure out what i wanted them to send me so that i could have it here in spain
these documents are going to be the death of me and the university is so unhelpful i don't want to
sound unappreciative but like you email financial aid and they tell you to go ask administrations
and then you email administrations and they tell you you need to ask financial aid and no one
seems to have the answers unless you march into the office and you're like please just give me
an address for this check that i need to send and then there's the issue of getting myself set up to
work as a self-employed person in spain which i think won't be as bad because i'm an eu citizen
however it's still really confusing and i don't think the university has any advice to give to me
regarding this topic because i actually did send the university one question we have to get this
thing called the nie on the form they gave us instructions on how to fill out the form it said
to check the box that says that you are a student coming here with like sufficient funds to support
yourself basically but another one of the options is to say that you are a self-employed person
so i emailed them and i said okay so i am going to be working online freelance while i am here
so should i actually check that box instead of the student one and then their
email back to me they were like even though you will be working working in quotation marks i was
like excuse me even though you will be working your primary purpose here is to be a student
and then they said like also if you are going to be doing any internships you
have to make sure to talk to your academic department before that and i was like
what i'm doing is not an internship and it's also not working in quotation marks like i don't know
maybe they are right maybe i still do check the student box but like i don't really trust their
advice if i say that i'm just a student coming here with sufficient funds that feels like lying
that feels like the incorrect answer so i'm going to get someone else's opinion on that i don't know
man sometimes i'm like wow imagine how much easier things would have been if i just stayed in the us
so i think today i'm just gonna go back to administrations with a scholarship question
the language center with a spanish class question and then a clothing store because
it's getting cold here and i don't really have the necessary clothes i literally have one sweatshirt
okay it's gonna be okay it's all gonna be okay it was not okay so the language center was closed for
no apparent reason so i did some other stuff i went to the post office which was unsuccessful
for reasons that are going to take too long to explain i went to an atm it started raining so
i stopped by this perfume shop and got some really nice smelling um fragrances okay okay i feel cute
i forgot that i need my passport to get a phone plan so i'm gonna get that and continue this
tiring day of errands i missed a bus that only comes once an hour so i ended up taking a taxi to
this big huge gigantic hyper market it's actually called um there's a carrefour at the south of
segovia so i got a few things from my dorm a few food items and then i was exhausted oh my god
once i was done just laying on my bed recuperating
i put everything away i actually even organized my entire bathroom and i love how it looks now
after dinner we had to leave the cafeteria but then we just kind of lingered around campus and
it was really nice to just talk for a while and once i got back to my room i organized some of
the footage that i got so far for the weekly vlog and i started watching jonathan's skillshare class
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i don't get much natural light in my room so i go out into this little area
to do my makeup because i feel like if i do it in artificial lighting
and then i go out into natural light it's gonna look weird but also
i just don't really know a lot about makeup so that might be the actual problem here
the rooms on my floor get cleaned on thursdays so i just have to take all the sheets and the towels
and put them by the door and then i had the perfect amount of time while i had to leave my
room to do my laundry and complete the one reading assignment that i had i have like almost no
homework still upsides of doing a communications major but i did that and then i came back and i
recorded a new video welcome back to the bliss bean welcome back to the bliss bean welcome back
welcome back to the welcome back to the back welcome back to the come back to the welcome
back to the come back back to the bliss bean and i will see you next week bye oh my goodness we're
done we're done we're done here after lunch i was once again on a mission to complete errands so i
went to student services then i went back to the language center and guess what i missed on the
sign the last time i was there they are only open on mondays and wednesdays so once again i did not
get to ask the question that i had instead i came back to my room i answered some emails i
put the sheets back on the bed fashion i really should have been invited to the met gala
i'm going to try to go down to the terrace patio area and film some
b-roll hopefully no one else is sitting there but that would be very awkward
i think i'm safe
okay i did it i actually met two new people that live in this residence but that i hadn't
met before um with this one guy we were actually talking about um this grocery store and how to
get there and i said that i took a taxi and i was i was telling him about my youtube channel
before so he was like well you're a youtuber so you're rich so like you can afford the taxi
generally my social battery has been pretty low but there's like something about having
makeup on for filming and then carrying around like my big camera and being like yeah i'm a
youtuber that gives you a real dose of confidence like i know i shouldn't base my self-worth on my
accomplishments and what my job is and whatever but having a youtube channel like a successful
youtube channel makes me pretty dang proud of myself i can't really say that that's a bad thing
once i got through the checklist of b-roll that i needed to film i did a
little bit of yoga i played a little bit of just dance and then we went to dinner
and can i just say that every single time i walk outside here
i can't believe how beautiful it is like i'm sure it'll get kind of old eventually but for now wow
i'm honestly really happy right now i feel like oh there's something on my camera lens
i feel like i've met a group of people that i really like hanging out with today i actually
found out that two of them are not going anymore to this music festival thing that's happening on
saturday just for ie students and i had a ticket and when i heard they weren't going i almost felt
like this relief like i had permission to not go as well like i actually was a little bit
a little bit excited about it not that much mainly i was kind of like oh it's gonna be
like such a big trip to get there i'm gonna get home so late but now that i know i'm not going
i feel relief i'm like oh my gosh i have time to just read a book or watch a movie
but actually two other reasons that they decided to knock over that there are people getting sick
in our dorm literally an hour or two after recording this i started to feel a sore throat
and then i had a runny nose i was tired i had a cough i took two antigen tests both of them came
back negative but i'm so glad that i stayed home and just rested it also might rain on
saturday which would just suck and it's the kind of thing where you can't just go home whenever
you want like if when i would go up to bars last week i could come home if i wanted to like it's
no problem i live very close but we're gonna be taking a bus out to the music festival location
and so if i wanted to go home i would basically be stuck until the bus was scheduled to take us home
it looks like i'm selling my ticket and i heard that the tickets are in very high demand
because not everyone who wanted one could get one they sold out so i'm not gonna be
a huge terrible scalper but i'm definitely gonna raise the price a little bit and maybe
use that money to like buy a movie ticket or something i bought it for 30. i sold it for 15.
10. i wish i wish i went for 60. i know a little bit easy i definitely felt like oh i'm not going
to that festival anymore i didn't get to see that friend on tuesday i didn't get to do the speed
meet thing this vlog is gonna be so boring like people are gonna think i never do anything fun
and then i was like you know what i've had a good week this is how i like to spend my time
so it doesn't matter how it looks to other people and that is your inspirational message for the day
i started my friday with a meeting with maia who is my assistant and we always have a lot of fun
even though i had just woken up as you can see from my hair after that i recorded a tiktok to
promote the video that was going up that day because i do take talks i'm cool i'm hip i'm
with it this is look for the first day of class my hair is not really behaving today but i did my
makeup mainly because i have to film something after class it's just a nice bonus to also be
able to wear it too class though and then i got a claw clip um i'm not really sure exactly how to
use it i think it looks okay it's like sticking out at the top but i think that's kind of cute
this first class was writing for media of course since it was the first session we didn't really
do anything we went over the syllabus we talked about what objectivity in journalism is and we all
introduced ourselves and we have like 60 people in the class so that took about an hour so i made
my weekly plan in the middle of the week so i just did thursday through sunday um 30 minutes of just
dance i did that yesterday that was fun today my plans are to decorate this notebook and watch
two episodes of sex education i didn't have any ideas for saturday so we'll see but then sunday
spa moment to me that just means like taking a long shower not rushing conditioning my hair
moisturizing doing everything afterwards my friend showed me what she likes to make for breakfast
so she makes overnight oats we did kind of a little cooking tutorial in the residence kitchen
this is what we do at 9 41 yes you know when like makeup youtubers they they pull something
up to the camera and they put their hands and then get some um this is the almond milk by maybelline
season three of sex education came out that day and i knew i was going to binge it i did
not even try to like ration it because i've been waiting for this for two years so i just wanted
to watch it and see what happens because season two ended on a huge cliffhanger um so yeah the
next day i woke up super late all i did was shower and then it was time for lunch already
after lunch though i did do something good for me and i went out and i climbed this like little
castle thing just to look at the view and get some fresh air but then i did go back to my room
and continue watching back to work i'm a very busy person i have lots i need to get done yes
i'm a little bit stressed out there's a lot happening next week a lot of classes
right now i'm trying to do my weekly planning and i'm clearing my brain dump so these are just a
few things that popped into my head last week so i'm trying to get them done the one i'm working
on now is trying to order a backup hard drive it seems like hard drives are more expensive
here so that's a little annoying i miss america i was actually feeling really out of it on sunday
i couldn't focus long enough to finish my weekly planning i called my family though so that was
really nice and we watched the new episode of ted lasso together but like honestly in this
clip i was almost crying i was on the verge of tears so i really needed to just leave my room
i was really thankful because my friend texted me to ask if i wanted
to grab dinner so that helped me to feel a lot better yeah college has just been
ups and downs but it's made me really happy editing this video because honestly truly this
week was mainly ups it was a really good week so thank you for following me on this journey
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you