#akirie

| 11月7日 | 69/100 Days of Productivity |

今天我在为1月份考试的话题做讨论。上图是本周的课文阅读。这么多新词！我淹没在作业里啊～

Today I’m working on topic discussion for my exam in january! The above picture is this week’s text reading. So many new words! I haven’t been studying as much as I usually do, which has affected my handwriting.. (▰˘︹˘▰)

| 10月29日 | 60/100 Days of Productivity |

今天是我的生日！祝自己生日快乐～我不想在课外做太多的功课，只是想庆祝一下。毕竟这是吃美食的借口～

Today is my birthday! I didn’t want to do too much school work outside classes, just wanted to celebrate. It’s an excuse to eat good food, afterall Have a great day!

| 10月28日 | 59/100 Days of Productivity |

今天很忙！做了很多家务，为明天的生日做了很多准备。我快21岁了！我要独自跟我的栗子动物和中国外卖庆祝，哈哈！ 我周末散步时拍的这张照片。看看那些秋天的颜色。惊艳！

Today is really busy! Had a lot of housework, and a lot of preparation for my birthday tomorrow. I’m turning 21! I will celebrate it home alone with my chestnut animals and chinese takeaway, haha! I took this picture this weekend, the autumn colours are breathtaking!

| 10月27日 | 58/100 Days of Productivity |

最近我的精神状态不太好，但我会尽我所能克服它。我和家人度过了一个美妙的周末，收集栗子！在这里我们有秋天用栗子做动物的传统！很有趣。 (´ • ᴗ • `)

Lately I have not been feeling really good mentally, but I try my best to work through it. I had an amazing weekend with my family!Yesterday I had an online class, they really never even reach the quality of normal classes, it’s so demotivating! I hope they continue to have physical classes.

Question of the day: What are you the proudest of out of all the assignments you’ve ever had? Let me tell you something funny, earlier this year I was clearing my apartment to move, so I was going through old school assignments and I came across some from elementary school. I picked up one and read something along the likes of “this paper is extraordinary, the details and research is far above someone your level. I especially think that the details on the menstrual cyclus were fantastic, etc.”. This teacher used to dislike everyone and she praised my menstrual cyclus so much, it was hilarious! I’m indeed very proud of my menstrual cyclus. Thanks for the top grade （　´∀｀）/

Nothing gives me more existential anxiety than having to have an opinion about everything, having to pick sides in politics, having to support one side or another. Why does any of it matter? Why must I be red or blue, be pro-religion or against it? Why must I have an opinion about everything. None of these things matter, you can argue for and against anything. Political correctness limits our freedom (of speech) yet it is also what makes us develop and think about our actions/words. Religion causes wars and tears humans apart, yet it can heal people, make them feel like they matter and make people come together in times of need. There’s pros and cons to everything, everything can be discussed and set into categories of what is “morally right” and the most “reasonable” in relation to the topic and the situation. The thing is, if everyone were like that, refusing to have an opinion, we would go nowhere, we would be stuck and never develop, but on the other hand, it’s also tiring to have an opinion, because someone will debate against you and present points that go against your ideas and believes. It’s all so stupid, and really hard to deal with. There’s really nothing that gives me more existential anxiety than this.

| 10月17日 | 48/100 Days of Productivity | ☕️

这个星期我很忙。我去看见很多人，参观很多地方。我没有时候做作业！（我其实只是不要做任何作业(ノ∀￣〃)）我最后买了新干花～

I have seen so many people this week, so busy! I finally did some homework - big mistake waiting so long（ ´∀｀）and look, I bought dry flowers for my decorating!

Question of the day: Are you a part of any clubs? I’m a part of a think tank on China that also plans the weekly China Cafés at my school. Sadly, there hasn’t been any this semester, due to obvious reasons. I do hope we can continue them next year, it’s really great practicing Chinese with natives, while hanging out with coffee/tea ☕️

| 10月13日 | 44/100 Days of Productivity |

大家好，因为这周是秋假，我没怎么学习，打了很多英雄联盟,,,, (;´Д｀)但是！我今天准备下周一的报告。我要谈谈中国菜。你最喜欢的中国菜是什么？我的是面条或者鱼香肉丝。我非常喜欢做中国菜 - 你可以看看上面的照片，大部分是我做的 ｡^‿^｡

I haven’t posted in a while! It’s autumn vacation, so I’m playing a lot of League of Legends, and forgetting to study ah! Today I worked on my presentation for monday, it’s about Chinese food. What is your favourite Chinese dish? Mine’s either any kinds of noodle dish or 鱼香肉丝, both bring me so many happy memories!

Question of the day: Career goals? While I’m not for certain what I specifically want to work with, I do want to work with cultural exchange and communication, preferably between my own country and China. However, I do see myself taking business related classes, as that’s just the most convenient way to get jobs related to the country with one of the strongest economies, unfortunately.

There are so many things that I want to do, yet am too scared to do - rather, I’m too scared that I’m not creative enough to pull certain things off. I’m not quite sure what I actually want to do specifically, but I’m confident in the fact that no matter what I decide to devote my time and energy into, I’ll do so whole heartedly.

| 10月6日 | 37/100 Days of Productivity |

今天我发现，我看错了！我做了错误的作业，所以我需要做很多作业。幸亏我喜欢做作业，所以不太麻烦，不然我认为我现在要死。。。

Today I realized I made the wrong homework for this week, so I had to do much more work than normal. Luckily I like to do homework, so it’s not a big problem.

Question of the day: Do you have pre-test rituals and what are they? A good meal and coffee, hehe

| 10月3日 | 34/100 Days of Productivity |

我今天读了一些关于中国历史和文化的文章，读了同时记笔记。今天是轻松的一天～ (ᴗ˳ᴗ)

Today I read some articles about some history/culture related topics because I’ll be taking a class like that next semester. These are week 40’s notes, I’m particularly proud of my very bad doodle of a 四合院 （　´∀｀）

Question of the day: Are you a doodler? I used to not be one, but I would describe myself as a doodler now! It makes my notebook more fun to open and look at, so why not? Even though my doodles are not very nice, haha;;

| 10月1日 | 32/100 Days of Productivity |

中秋节快乐！Today we reunite with our family, eat moon cake, look upon the moon and wish for a long life.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 I hope everyone who celebrates are able to celebrate with their families

At 中秋节 Chinese people eat moon cakes 月饼, which traditionally are round 圆 like the moon, a symbol of reunion 团圆 and never seperating 分开. It resembles always being together with your family

| 9月29日 | 30/100 Days of Productivity |

中秋节快要到了，你们过了吗？我上周买了月饼 在这里它们一点贵，但是为了中秋节我觉得是划得来。

It is almost 中秋节, Mid-Autumn Festival This year it is celebrated on the 1st of October 2020, which is also, 十一 , the PRC National Day of China. During this festival, Chinese get together with their families and eat moon cakes and look upon the moon.

I promised you that I would share some poems with you. This is a poem about missing the family reunion of the festival. It describes how beautiful it is, in a quiet yet sad way. The sadness and longing is very prominent. I cannot celebrate the festival with my family this year either, so I feel deeply connected to this poem. I hope everyone who celebrates can be with their 家人 family (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡