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[budumtssss]

台東 #1!!!!

好久不見!

Just here to say that months of gaslighting myself has been successful!!!! I must say I spent the first month or two here lowkey miserable. But I kept saying things like 台東 (Taitung) #1! I love living here! Wouldn't want to be anywhere else!

And now I highkey believe it! Taiwan is small enough that I could in theory travel to party every weekend. But I don't even want that anymore. It's nice to spend Friday nights resting, playing games with friends, or watching movies / shows! There's never pressure to go out or FOMO bc there's nothing to go out to!

After years of saying I'm focusing on myself, I kind of actually am (bc there's no option). Especially with starting 75 hard with @yourebasicbecause, I go to the gym almost every day, I don't drink so there's less incentive to go clubbing, I slowly move through completing my books (Finished Al Final Mueren los Dos recently and now reading O Ego é seu inimigo), and my time surfing the Apps TM have dwindled bc there's no one on them within 80 km!

I still can travel to other parts of the country pretty easily ($20-$40 and 2-4 hours on a train to get anywhere you need to go), and I have weekend trips lined up. But I honestly just like exploring TT more. No matter where I am in the "city" I can always turn 360 degrees and see a mountain at some point, which I think is pretty nice. And its one of the few places in Taiwan where you'll never see a layer of smog in the air (travelling to Tainan for a day was crazy bc I was thinking why does the air look like that....)

Nothing but time to focus on what I want to prioritize rn, and I think thats maybe what I need. Giving me material for me to spend the rest of my life annoying people with stories of how my time "abroad" changed my life.

[fairycosmos]

there's just nothing that beats being at home. the world will try to convince me i should be doing more and it's like yeah but im at home

[emill-lirios]

La última cena con Michael (maicol)

extrañando al niño maicol desde su partida repentina. esta es una foto de hace rato cuando fuimos a comer a un restaurante vegetariano. muy shico la verdad. mucho tiempo de no comer jot doj. @budumtssss

[budumtssss]

I said I would make my own post and now I am finally doing it!!!

I don’t remember much from this day at this point, but I do recall playing sushi go for the first time (which I later bought for my sisters to play, so thanks!)

And…

Finalmente leí tu carta!!!

It was a bit of a jump scare. Titled “Letter to Michael’s Future friends” and this was the first line.

Luckily I kept reading and it was so sweet that I would’ve cried if I was a crier, but it really made my day.

It has been a pleasure being your friend in and out of the US. Although I always make fun of you for doing the most, I’ve always admired how much you commit yourself to so many different interests and always manage to be amazing at all of them!

I hope to see you soon (fr pls come to Taiwan, it’ll be lonely in the country-side).

[budumtssss]

Summer Goal #1: Be a reader

I made a list of things I wanted to do this summer, but probs won't do most of them.

But one thing that I might (Might) be able to complete, is wrapping up books that I started but never finished over my college career. There's 3 books and roughly 3 weeks til I leave the country, so if I can finish roughly one a week I should be in good shape.

I recently started an initiative at home making my sisters read for 30 mins a day b4 they can start playing games, but it kind of backfired (for the better?) in that now they attack me if I'm on my phone b4 reading.

Here are the books I hope to finish (in order):

Hábitos atómicos (Atomic Habits) by James Clear:

I saw a couple recs for this book on insta, so when I was in Eth-pa-ña for the summer I decided to give it a try. I'm a mega procrastinator and I had other books to try to read so I'm just really getting around to looking at, but the advice offered seems really useful so I'm trying to become a different person based on what James tells me to do. One of the pieces of advice that has stuck with me so far is that instead of focusing on goals, focus on changing your habits / identity to the type of person who would achieve those goals naturally. So instead of being someone who is trying to read more, I am a reader (TM), doing daily reading and finds reading more enjoyable than doom scrolling (not yet, but you got be a little delulu until it hits reality).

The book also stresses the importance of little changes making a big difference in the long run, so even if I can just improve myself by 1% this month then woohoo.

Next, Moriré besando a Simon Snow (Carry On) by Rainbow Rowell:

I got this book in a little ESG Secret Santa freshman year, and I have started and stopped reading this book numerous times, but only really got around to reading it last summer when I was Ethpaña and had to take hour trains each way to get into the main part of the city. It started off kind of slow, and the first time I was trying to read it my esp vocab was so tiny that it was quite difficult, but last summer I was breezing through it and it was starting to get goooood (love a little bit of enemies to lovers, whew). I'm already more than halfway through the libro, but its a big one so hopefully it gets done.

Finally, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki:

It seems every summer I tried to start up a reader era. This book hails from reading era summer 2021, when I was working at Twitter. I was visiting NYC for a week and one of the people on my team was based there, so we met up for lunch. He was a Big reader and I wanted to read something so I asked for recs and he really liked this book. It tells the story of a woman who finds a diary washed up on shore from a young girl who's family recently moved from the US to Tokyo, and the kids... are not nice to her to say the least. but the book apparently also makes a larger commentary on how a person influences and changes the story they're reading, tho I never made it that far.

oh, I also megaprocrastinated reading the letters ppl gave me the last days of school, but I will do that soon (?)

I swear!

[budumtssss]

if u had to foster care any animal for ~6wks, what species would it be?

A hamster would be cool. 

Ive always wanted one, but keep hearing horror stories about how easily they croak.

But they’re tiny and fuzzy so it’d be nice to look after one for a couple days.

[budumtssss]

Fav Sketches from my 8th grade sketch book

Day 3/? of unpacking / reorganizing my room, and I found my old sketchbook!

In 8th grade I took a computer art class, and I remember hating every second of it but it was the only elective I could get bc I enrolled later than everyone else :(

I always questioned how lazy you have to get a B in a subject like art but now that I think I’m p sure I got like an 89 in this class (the teacher hated me and I hated her, f u ms jones). I worked extra hard on the final project and she scored me just low enough to give me this B.

Anyways we had to make sketches every week, and as I wasn’t built to art, you can imagine the quality / creativity behind the sketches.

Sketch 1: Perry the platypus

The first like 5 sketches in this notebook are different drawing of Perry. Idk, I think platypi are cool.

Next: the Apple logo

A pattern you’ll see is that I wanted to get these sketches over as soon as possible bc I didn’t give an f about this class

Something so simple yet still so poorly executed.

Next: a book

Back when in 8th grade when I still read.

Creepy: a sponge Bob cup and Patrick star

At least I think it was a cup lol

Dog:

I think at some point I decided to google how to draw, but still…

A chef: ?

Also peep how I kept getting -5 points bc I just folded the page instead of getting an actual bookmark (“NOT A Bookmark” like girl shut up)

My name and birthday: art-worthy for sure

Princess: not bad not bad

Oh yea, my friend drew this one for me

Cupcakke: jk just a cupcake

And the last sketch ever drawn: Mickey :)

Honorable mentions: The week I was extra committed to the grind and just drew social media logos.

Truly the work of a young, aspiring artist.

Tell me your faves in the replies

[thebctman]

Got back from seeing the movie again and a tiny theme I liked was the solidarity in the younger POC generation vs the older gen.

Margo, Hobie, Pavitr and Miles all had eachother’s back. They fought together, they helped eachother in small ways like Hobie telling Miles to use the palms, and big ways like Miles saving Captain Singh and Margo letting Miles go “home”.

They could’ve stopped him, they could’ve not helped eachother but they did. Because they understood and they all realized what was wrong with the Spider Society. All of them at the end came together to support and help Miles, in the way the rest of the spiders couldn’t and didn’t.

And when you put that into perspective with Miguel and Jessica, older POC that gave no support. They believe that Miles has to suffer in order to become Spider-Man, that pain will always have to happen.

But the others don’t believe that, they know that best way to be a hero is uplift and help eachother. Often the parents, the older generation compromise their morals and others for the future, for them to grow up safer and yet the future generation always has to reckon with the consequences of those actions without even having a say in the first place.

That’s a damn message, and I love that they used the younger poc generation to show that because this does happen in real life, there is a difference and our parents, our grandparents believe that pain has to happen for our identity to be created.

[dukeofash]

Howdy newbies and welcome to Tumblr, it takes a bit of setup to get this site running well so here’s what works for me. One of the neat things about this site is that its a different experience for everyone, so tailor these settings towards what you want from this site. 

New XKit 

[budumtssss]

is life better in spain? would you live there live there while you're young?

Overall life is better there imo. It was fun clubbing all night and the vibes are gr8. People don't believe in work as much as a concept so you can just bool all day everyday which is more my speed. Also just in general it feels safer to walk around and live your life.

But I don't think I'd live there. I'd revisit for sure, maybe a week, a few months at most. But its still Europe so it can only provide so much.

[budumtssss]

Post Sky-Diving thoughts

Wooooooo!!!!

That was literally so fun. I would do it again. Everyone should do it.

My life has been improved in ways that can not be described.

10/10 would recommend.

The guy I went up with was really chill. It was his first time jumping in Rhode Island, and it was my first time jumping! He kept pointing to random groups of buildings and asking “is that Boston” like anyone would know, but I hope one day he finds Boston! Thanks Marko for not killing me :)

[budumtssss]

Pre-skydiving thoughts

Currently in a car on the way to the Skydive center (hope no one looks over my shoulder and sees I’m a tumblr nerd)

More nervous about the driver getting us there in one piece (the little swerves and cars honking at us is something that is so felt), but if skydiving won’t take me out, then this car ride will be fine.

Thinking about why am I even doing this. I was talking to my mom and I asked her “I am doing something tomorrow that will probably stress you out. Would you rather I tell you now and stress you or just let you know when it’s done?” And she chose the latter option which is so real. Cant wait to just drop my video link in the family gc.

But back to why skydive. I guess I already paid so that’s one reason. But the more you go through the waivers the more it’s made clear that you really could just die and for what? To say you’ve hopped out a plane? Good for you bro.

Skydiving is always something I’ve wanted to do, but like, why? What will I be really getting out of it? I think it just sounded like something so out of the ordinary that I thought I had to do it, but is it really worth it?

If my younger sisters ever said they wanted to skydive I’d be screaming crying throwing up, bc why can’t you just do something normal…

Anyways, 20 minutes out from place, so

too late now! Peace out ✌🏾

[linguistness]

Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

[budumtssss]

If you had only one sense (hearing, touch, sight, etc.), which would you want?

Omg only one...

Maybe hearing. If my senses were limited to anything else, I think I would feel too disconnected from other people and reality. I'm not God's strongest soldier. I would call it quits.

But at least with hearing I could still hang on to the voices of important people in my life or listen to music or something.

[budumtssss]

Hey Everyone…

There’s something I have to confess that’s been weighing on me for years now

There’s already been some rumors, so I might as well clear them up

Yes, the rumors are true.

I….

Wear glasses 🥸

I refuse to live in shame any longer. I. Wear. Glasses.

It’s who I am, who I’ve always been.

No denying it any longer.

I hope you all can accept me for who I am, because I refuse to change for anyone.

[budumtssss]

Almost had a real burger on accident (thanks for ruining it for me @anas-bizarre-adventure )

Thanks for the bbq invite @emill-lirios

[budumtssss]

I took 100+ and that was unreasonable of me, so I dialed it down to < 20.

Still unreasonable, so last night, I tried 5.

Still too much.

No more for me (*wink*)

[budumtssss]

FMK: twitter, tumblr, instagram

F Tumblr

M Insta

ByeBye Twitter