#winter studying challenge
December 20th, 2021
Soooo, back into another lockdown for the last week before the Christmas break.
As the project deadline is coming Friday, I’m quite stressed. I’ve worked on the report for quite a few hours today and will do the same tomorrow.
What is your favorite Christmas movie?
- Love actually! I love the whole mid 2000 England vibe in movies like this one and the Bridget Jones’ ones.
What is your favorite Christmas song?
- One of my current faves is Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande.
What is a Christmas song that makes you cringe?
- I hate Baby It’s Cold Outside
What is your favorite and least favorite holiday/winter food?
- My favorite thing for dinner during holidays is “Gourmetten” where you basically have a small grill on the table and tiny frying pans and you cook your own miniature food. “Mixed vegetables” are my most hated thing.
December 16th, 2021
Yesterday I decided to take a mental health day, as I was noticing my sleeping pattern getting worse and I was feeling more emotional than usual. It helped a lot and I’m very glad I did it.
Today was another project day. I overslept, so I enden up being 35 min late to our meet up, but wasn’t the end of the world. I managed to get some good hours of work done. Tomorrow I’ll work on it some more.
Share a memorable gift-opening moment from your childhood!
- It’ll be one for Sinterklaas instead of Christmas: My sister and I ended up receiving a keyboard (piano), but we had a number of mysteries to solve before getting to the present. I ended up so happy I could cry! I didn’t however ever learn how to play the piano, so for the first two years I tried teaching myself how to play a few different songs, but after that I ended up not using it and we sold it.
December 14th, 2021
Tuesday = project day. I spend my entire afternoon working on the landing gear project today. As the deadline for the project is in 9 days, we are really focussing on getting the project finished asap so we have a bit more time for the final check.
When do you buy your Christmas presents?
- As a Dutchie, (my family and) I don’t really do gifts at Christmas, as we celebrate Sinterklaas at the start of December. It’s basically the gift side of Christmas and we even do something like secret Santa.
December 13th, 2021
Yesterday my friend and I handed in our assignment and we feel pretty good about it!
Today I mostly did project work, but I found out I need the input of the stuff the others are woeking on in order to start on that. Hopefully I can finish working on that tomorrow!
What is a cherrished family tradition from your childhood?
- Instead of a Christmas dinner, my family has always done a Christmas buffet, where every one brings some home made food. Unfortunately we didn’t do it last year and won’t do it this year due to the circumstances.
What is a favorite family Christmas memory that has stuck with you through the years?
- My favorite memory is pretty much renewed every year and it’s seeing everyone together, enjoying the food and in general just seeing everyone enjoy themselves
Does your family have any odd traditions during the holidays?
- Not anything I can think of right now.
Winter Studying Challenge
7th January: Do you like the cold?
I think it can be refreshing and nice but I much prefer the feeling of coming in from the cold! I’ve been raking leaves in the garden this morning to get over what happened in Washington DC last night and now I’m moving onto my next essay. X Emily
Winter Studying Challenge
4th January: What is the most important things that’s going to happen to you this year? - I would have to say graduating with a Masters Degree!
5th January: Would you rather live in a world where it’s always winter or always summer? - Both could be equally eerie! I think I would prefer always summer because I miss reading and doing yoga outside, but I love the chill in the air sometimes. Autumn is my favourite season.
Winter Studying Challenge
2nd January: have you made any new years’ resolutions?
Sort of! I’m starting Spanish lessons next week. With an eating disorder my resolutions have always been to lose weight and this year I have struggled not to repeat that, so I would rather not make any resolutions really.
I’ve submitted one essay and have two and a presentation for a grad scheme to go! I also had to do a numeracy test which was so anxiety inducing, so my therapy was digging up these jerusalem artichokes! They’re my favourite! X Emily
Winter Studying Challenge
27th December: What was the best moment (of your Christmas)?
This Christmas I didnt have the difficult family moments of previous years. It was a quieter, more grateful christmas. I hope everyone had a nice time. Xx Emily
I just wanted to say that if you find my captions too long for the winder studying challenge you can delete them! So long as you keep me sourced I really don’t mind!
Winter Studying Challenge
15th December: Q: what is the coolest gift you ever gave to someone? A: ahh oh no I’m not sure… I gave someone a star named after them once!
16th December: Q: what is your favourite christmas movie? A: this is so hard! I think its between Love Actually, the first Harry Potter, and we always watch Wallace and Gromit the wrong Trousers!
17th December: what is your favourite Christmas song/Carol? A: top three! All I want for christmas is you the my chemical romance version, dance of the sugar plum fairy, and Patapan/o come o come Emmanuel by Mindy Gledhill
09/02/2021 The snow is so peaceful so I’ve moved all of my desk bits to face the window. I had a crazy busy day yesterday but hopefully that makes today easier. I’m missing my boyfriend a lot today, we had the best snow days when we weren’t long distance. X Emily
Since I’m suddenly a spanish studyblr, I feel like I have to remind you all that there is no such thing as perfect spanish and your grades are not an indicator of your fluency or your habilities to learn a language.
Knowing how to conjugate verbs with vosotros is really not that important, nor is it to use ser o estar correctly. Yes, accuracy is good, but being able to communicate is essential. So please be kinder to yourself and don’t be afraid to speak another language, because I can tell you that no native spanish speaker will stop to point out your mistakes.
Days three and four of the study challenge!
What is your least favorite thing about winter?
Snow. It’s wet and cold and gets everywhere.
What is an unpopular opinion you have about winter?
Ice skating is the only good winter sport tbh
Winter studying challenge day 2
What is your favorite thing about winter?
Hot cocoa- the rest of it is asthma problems and getting too cold.
I’m skipping day one loves!
