Hey guys, what's up? It is Monday. Welcome to another week in my life vlog. I am currently on my way to Zink. I'm getting some brunch with Brianna and Jaylin and they're gonna be on my podcast after Zink is literally like across the street from my studio. You can see it. So yeah, this is my first day off the Daniel Fast. I let myself sleep at until like 9.30 this morning because the past few weeks have been so crazy, like I've said. And we had our first like young adults thing after service last night so I was, I'll not even that late, but I went about like one whatever, okay? So I let myself sleep in and that was a big mistake. I've realized that I'm letting like time run my life and not me run time. You know what I'm saying? Like that's why I'm so into my morning routines because also you guys are gonna hear subscribe. I'm sure you really want to after this this conversation but that's why I'm so into my morning routines and all that stuff because then I'm on top of time. It's not running me and like you make time work for you. But I slept in and like I miss my entire morning routine and it was horrible. So I'd rather be tired than not have my morning routine. So anyways, this weekend was good. I didn't vlog. It was just a good weekend. I like kind of actually I just got a lot of homework done and a lot of like work stuff done, but it was fun. Anyways, try to think of what's exciting this week, getting my hair done.  That's pretty much all I have. No, so it'll be a good week. I'm excited. I promise. A little bit late because they live way further in the traffic. It's really bad. So I'm gonna do some reading.  So I got an iced coffee with oat milk and then I'm just going to do some reading until they get here. Guys, my group message is literally always, always, always going off. Always. All right. Got our food. Hey guys. I'm going to not vlog because I just want to eat and talk. So bye. Pressure. They should say caution will explode. It's going to explode. They always explode. Well, what if it explodes? Well, it doesn't, it explodes at the right turn, but they overflow. No, I know it. Like, this is the fancy water I've ever had. Fraser, I'm going to break a nail. This is like really what I've come to. You want me to try? Um, Jalen, I might actually spill on you. So I feel bad doing that. But actually, I might have to have you do that. Because isn't it weird? I've never seen anything like it. Oh, it didn't. Guys, this is literally the first time it hasn't done that. Oh my gosh. That smells so good. Had a touch. I've done it 10 times. It spills everywhere. It's open so weird. I don't want to do that right. No, it was perfect. Why is it like, oh, now it's spilling. Oh, okay. Wait, wait, wait. I think I can just. This is, I literally, I've been wanting this for three weeks, but I haven't even know what happened. This is amazing. Best day of your life. I feel like I was like blind and now I can see again, like the trees are vibrant colors. I can see the details in the leaves. I'm younger and I would record videos every now and then and I was never serious about it. So when Jalen and I started dating, I kind of wanted to do it. It's bright. Okay. I'm a trader Joe's. My camera is dying. Hopefully it doesn't die. Um, the recording was amazing. I can finally grocery shop with normal food. So I'm going to go do that, pick up some groceries, and then I have to work out costs in like an hour. So I need to chop, chop. Okay. I would give you guys a haul. My camera is dying and I need to charge it. So I just got some chicken and eggs, like just a few things. I only spent like $40, which is what I should be spending grocery shopping. Um, but yeah, I just picked up some stuff for this week and you guys will see it like as I eat. So I need to charge this camera really bad. So I am all my way to orange there now. I haven't really been able to vlog like a ton today because my camera was dying the whole time. A lot of you guys always asked me to vlog with my Sunday experience at Zoey. And like, I don't want to like, no, I don't want to do that on this channel. Um, but we did it from like the perspective of a ZLC student. So I'm like, maybe kind of in it, but I like helped with the vlog. So we've logged on this camera all day yesterday. I don't know why I brought that up, but you guys should check it out. If you guys are interested, so a lot of you guys asked me a lot of questions and like you guys can just see it there. Oh yeah. Okay. So I thought that I loved, I thought that I lost my, um, camera charger at church, but I found an extra one and I charged it just now. So anyways, today has been really awesome. I love recording podcasts because it gets me like so inspired. Brianna and Jaylin are amazing. Like we already are texting making other plans. I mean, we've been friends, but like we're like, so we have plans now, um, but I love them. I'm so excited for that recording of the episode to go up. They're the best. Anyways, I am heading to Orange Theory right now to go work out. I love working out guys. It's the best thing ever. Question. Should I be like, I know nothing about anything. Um, but should I be like, doing like protein shakes before working out? No. Yes. No. I don't know. You tell me. So anyways, I'm on my way. Uh-huh. My cousin, Alyssa, who's been in vlogs before is actually moving to Texas this week. She lived there when we were really young and then she didn't grow up there, but she did live there. She's actually like going to be living with my family for like a second until she decides where she wants to live in Dallas, but she moves on Wednesday. So tonight is like our farewell. We're going to hang out and I'm going to make my classic you guys do it guys. My buffalo stuff. Chut. What? Buffalo stuffed chicken. See potatoes. I wish that there was a different name for that. I really do. So as like her farewell dinner and we're going to hang out. So that's the plan after ask me how much datto mark I have. Why? Hello. This car literally was I was going to hit them just now, but um, I decided against it. Ask me how much datto mark I have that I haven't done. That's due tomorrow. There's like a lot of a lot to do. In other news, um, I think Okay. I'm just feeling good about life today guys. I really am. And I'm excited to work out because it's been fun. So on my way. Just finished my workout. I'm dead. That was the best one in a while, but I'm dead. So made it to Vaughns. Okay. Getting my favorite buffalo wing sauce because I'm making my classic meal that, you know, I'm branching out, but this is our favorite and it's Alyssa's kind of going away night tonight. It's not going away yet, but where's the ranch? So expensive. Can we get this all? What? That was so dramatic. Okay. Sephora. What do you think? This is literally so close to me and I've never been in. This is just beautiful. I'll talk to you. Ooh. Here we are with my favorite cosmetic CC cream. Am I going to get this? Wait. Okay. Also see, I need this. They sent me. Is it out? Oh, maybe. No. So this IPL dark spot is amazing. And then there's another thing. It's on the way at the peel. That's new. I want to try all of this stuff though. Like I love skincare. What is this? Spotlight. Ooh, but I want, ooh, that's fun too. Ooh, fun. Okay. I want that. Hey guys, I'm showing you a little haul from today. So in the mail came my new bag from Princess Pauly. It's super, super cute. And then I got this hemp oil. I'm going to be working with them on my podcast. Really calms you down. And then these vitamins, they're gym vitamins. People, I've seen music everywhere. They're daily essentials for women and I need to be healthier. So this is good. They're like vegan, gluten-free, all that stuff. And then as we know, I refilled my IT Cosmetics CC cream. This is my favorite. I got the shade light medium, but it's literally the best product ever and I was out of it. And so I just stocked up on it, but that's it. Made my famous dinner. God bless. Oh my gosh. Okay. I look crazy. I have the Bioclarity face mask on. I'm so into Bioclarity skincare products right now, especially their, I think it's the essentials routine, whatever, talk about my podcast because it is so freaking good for redness. So anyways, hi guys. I'm back home. It's like 10 right now. Alyssa left, which it is really sad and I don't really think about it, but she's moving literally to Texas. So like basically with my family. So I'm still going to see her all the time. So it could be worse, but I've just been doing stocking humanities homework ever since I'm on my like third load of laundry. I'm about to put that away. I'm pretty much almost done for the night. Once I put this away and then I'm going to read. I think it's like 10 p.m. right now. Yeah. So I'm gonna put this away and then start reading.  I love a good classic like true green face mask, but yeah, I haven't used this one yet. So I'm really excited to see how I like it. So this is a book that I just bought. They recommend it to me in school like literally all the time. Hey guys. Good morning. Today is Tuesday. So I have class today. Oh, I feel like my rings are messing up my hair. It's like 6.45.  So I got this really cool like 49ers windbreaker. I, what did I get it from? Oh no, from an Instagram page that basically like thrust clothes. It's just like really cool. Aloe leggings, my Adidas Falcons and then just my and then just my normal jewelry and stuff. But I like can't decide if I want to do blue bottle or stay here and not leave for like two hours. I think I'll go to blue bottle. I think I'm going to have to. Okay. I decided to stay home and do my reading here and take Coco on a walk and stuff. She's running now because she hears me. Love you purely. These are the best K-Cups. Comment down below what kind of coffee you drink in the morning like Keurig, Starbucks, different K-Cups. What is that? The espresso. I need to use my espresso. I just literally don't know what pods to buy and I just still have not got around to it, guys. Also, actually, if you guys have an espresso, what pods do you use than this exact one? Please let me know and do you guys have the actual espresso cups? Like I need to do that for a lot of days. So I've got a little overboard on the butter but Daniel Fass was over. Haven't had it in a month and it's made some eggs. I'm hungry. So I made three eggs. I'm probably, I don't know. Hopefully eat this all and then some coffee. I'm going to just like do a little reading and then start reading my book. I bought it last night but it wouldn't download it to forever. So I'm just now able to start this morning. I have about an hour until I need to leave. Okay, it is 8.20. I'm on my way to class. I'm pretty sure it starts at 9.30 today. And my start at 9, which is fine. I'll still be there on time. My outfit is so comfortable. It feels so amazing. I have my sunroof down all my windows down. It's just a great morning. Guys, this is the difference you see because yesterday I was talking about how I just whatever that was. This morning I woke up at 6. I have my whole morning routine thing. My morning to myself. Like it was great. Did a lot of reading. Cooked. Like I wasn't rushed. I really had the time because I stayed on top of my routine and because I'm staying on top of my schedule and my schedule isn't running my life. You know? So morning routine is feeling much better on my way. That's all I have to say. Guys, I just parked right. It's 9am. Get a text. Hey, we'll see you all at 9.50 for staff teaching. I already knew I was like 30 minutes early but I'm like an hour early. So people are setting up. I might just go help. I'm not on like load in this week. I was last week but I might just go do that and track my friends and see who's there and make someone hang out with me. Oh my gosh. I'm literally going to die. So that's the current plan. Really early. Doing really important Instagram matters. I actually might be on storage. We're just opening all the lines. So the lighting is good. Okay. This is a true friend KK. A buddy. Hey guys, taking a stats test that I'm probably going to fail. But look at the view. Yeah. You know, it's great. Hey guys, it is now 4pm. Oh, my phone is dying. It's 4pm now. I am working in my office for this afternoon. I actually had a 345. Whoo, orange theory class but I moved it to 8pm because I'd rather. I really just want to do a like a night workout. I feel like I haven't worked out at night or had the chance to work out at night in a second and I really like like we and our workouts or whatever and all I'm doing is schoolwork and I should probably answer emails and whatever. Guys, stats is literally killing me. Like I'm actually school has never really been that difficult. I've never filled a class before in my life. I love that they're working in the house right now. I've never filled a class in my entire life and I think I'm feeling stats but it's like I'll get it up. But it is horrible. Like it's actually the worst thing ever. Danielle always is like, I'm so sorry. But I really like, I don't even care if it's a D. Like that's fine. Just like something like barely passing. I think my school is like 65 passing. I don't know. See, I don't even know that because normally I don't have these issues but it's so horrible and I just want to be done. I'm just hanging out with my best friend Coco. So I'm going to answer some emails and do some stuff. Honestly, I'm like a little bit emotional today.  I don't know. I just like randomly got emotional and I need to chill out. So yeah, you agree. I need to chill. She agrees. Okay. So I'm going to get some work done. Guys. I still have the confetti on the floor from when Coco's pop that confetti thing. But I just don't have a strong enough vacuum and I still have not gotten to it. This is, this is ridiculous. It's literally been like a week and a half at least. So good. Currently 6 16 p.m. I just made some coffee. I actually, ooh, Joe and I are going to have a little meeting in the office. Just some life planning. Also just got a package from 15 20. They have a really really cute Instagram. They reached out I think last week and asked to send me some stuff. Ooh, we know how much I love face mask. So they just have like really nice face mask. I also just really like their packaging, which makes a huge difference for me. But I know it's all the same. This candle. Okay, Joe, look at how cool this candle is. Very cool, right? And it's black. Very cool. Smells cool. Ooh, let us know. Oh my God. Right. Joe, do you like my top? Whatever this is called. My one breaker. Yeah. Yeah, I figured you would my jacket. Yeah, I'm forgetting. You would think I would know. Cause like, it's like a blouse. Literally. But yeah. Awesome. I'm like, I'll probably try this. I actually don't know when I'll try this, but definitely in this vlog. Okay guys, it is 8 p.m. almost. And I am outside of orange theory. I'm about to go work out. I feel so much better. But one, I had a coffee. And then two, Joe and I had a very good creative meeting. So now I feel very good. Awesome. I'm realizing. This is something the poshest child says all the time, but it was like your systems that you have in life are meant to get you here. Okay, I'm going to like butcher this as I always do. But like, you need to change it to get there. Like what you're doing, I don't even know what you're doing right now. Essentially like works to get you here, but it's not going to like work to get you there. You're going to have to like change it up, right? So I was like, genius. That makes sense. Yeah. And I realized that I need to like in order to do all the other stuff that I want to do, I need to work with other people and like hiring out and whatever. So, but that'll only just make all the videos better. And it's like, I really at the end of the day, like I do like editing, but it just takes us so much of my time that I could be like taking meetings or meeting with people or like like create a directing and just making my videos more creative and making things just better as a whole. Like I feel like I've been at this plateau, which isn't like the bad thing. Like I'm not like, oh my God, by any means, but like I feel like just not, I mean, yeah, numbers, but I don't even necessarily mean it in numbers. I just mean like just all my channel and it's not that I'm going to like change things up that drastically, but overall this stuff can get better. So I'm changing my systems and I'm feeling really good about it. I'm working with like a graphic designer on like some podcast stuff too. So very happy about that. I think overall it's going to be really good.  So all right, I'm about to walk in. I don't like not want to go, but I don't really feel like going either. I kind of just want to speak over with, which I feel like it's going to be a good workout. Um, but like, it'll be even better when it's done, you know what I mean? So see you guys after. Guys, I am so dead. That was the hardest orange theory workout I've had in a bit. Like I've gotten to the point where I'm like fine, I can do it, but oh my gosh, that was really difficult. So I'm going to go home and shower and sleep. Back home, these are the exciting things I do. I'm buying some meal prep boxes for lunch because I don't have good ones that I can just bring with me to class. And these are good. I've heard good things about these. What are you doing girl? Um, but I'm just getting the 12 pack. Look, there's three compartments. Like I'll show you guys when I actually meal prep for school or just for the week. Actually, I'm going to start meal prep for the week. If you guys know of any good ideas, let me know. Okay, so I just got a text from my directors and they're having some of us do like 10 minute messages in the morning. So I'm one of them. And now I was going to go to bed, but now I have to free this all out. So, awesome. Good thing I already... Yeah, I'm just... It'll be so great, guys. Good morning everyone. This is my outfit of the day. Very easy outfit. I'm going to go make some Barak Fist. Beautiful. Also guys, I came to my kitchen yesterday with this KitchenAid mixer. It's actually one of my roommates, but she just like brought it in in my kitchen. And I was like literally in the verge of tears because I was like, this is so cute. So, I feel very official now. We can like bake with this. It's so exciting. Okay, I just made some a bagel with some eggs and some coffee for breakfast. Okay guys, so I'm on my way to class. Like I said last night, they asked like a few of us to preach this morning. So I had to, ooh, write a message last minute and I was up until like one and then I woke up early and I've been working on it. Honestly, for some reason I like knew... I don't know why, but I like knew that I was going to end up preaching on something like similar to this. So like basically already had something in my notebook that was like literally exactly it. It's on James four. So it's like, we literally like, we've been going through the book of James. So it's just really whatever. It's not easy, but I'm saying like, so wild stuff guys, but I am on my way to class. I'm like not actually nervous and the slightest. I feel like maybe I will get nervous like right before. I was nervous last night a little bit, but now I'm just like, I don't know. I'm actually like public speaking and stuff. Doesn't scare me at all, but when it's like in front of a lot of people that I know, then it's different, you know? Anyways, it'll be good. And then after that we have lunch and then we have tracks for creative. We're working on some like merch shoots and stuff, which will be cool for Zoey. Not for me. I feel like if I say merch, it sounds like it's for me. So I... Why are these cars being so loud? Oh, that's literally not a car. That's okay. Oh, you're so good. Your sandwich is ready. Beautiful. Okay, guys, with Saf. I'm literally the only ever with you or John. But Saf and I both preached today. We did. Yay! We went to Joe and the Jews to get some work done and now we're leaving. Wait, if you guys ever go get the oboe... Yeah, oboe shake. So good. It's the best thing. I got the power shake and Saf told me that I was going to regret it, which I should have listened to her because we're also the same person and we genuinely be the exact same. So if I like something, then I'm going to like it. So like it. And even when I made the decision, I knew that it was probably a mistake. So... Next time. Next time. It's really good, actually. But I'm so tired. What time did you go to bed last night when you found out? Oh, like around 11. Oh. No, I went to bed. I wrote my message last night. No, I wrote it this morning. Oh, that makes for sense. Okay, well, we're leaving. Guys, I just dropped off stuff and then Dom's here. And so she's walking. So I'm going to drive her to work. Okay. I'm home again, guys. So here is the deal. I am absolutely exhausted. I'm making some coffee, guys. I know I drink way too much coffee. We'll get over it. It's really cute. Coffee just like isn't even real coffee. Today has been super, super productive, actually. It's been really productive. I got a lot of stuff done. I'm like mentioned that I might try to work with other people and like collaborate on things and like hiring whatever. So I found a bunch of stuff. I kind of want to do an entire video that's like, oh my gosh, my phone. First off, my coffee looks great. This is my favorite mug, actually. I kind of want to do an entire video on like when you are like, there are caps on your life and when you like go to the next level and changing your systems and stuff. If you guys, maybe even a podcast episode. I don't know whatever you guys want. But I honestly probably should do some homework. So I'll do a little bit of homework tonight. I think overall like I haven't had a night where I didn't have anything to do in so long. And like I always, that's a thing like with school and like working for yourself like you always have something to do. But I won't die if not. But I don't know. I'm like pretty tired honestly. I don't know. We'll see. I'm just going to like chill, probably put on comfy clothes and just relax and get some stuff done. For my snack, I'm going to have some hummus from Trader Joe's and then some pita bread. The other day, this reminds me if you guys saw the last week of my life vlog. I don't even know if we mentioned this but Saf and I got hummus at Cafe Gratitude and they didn't even give us pita bread. So it was a waste. Guys, this is like really escalated. I'm literally wearing a matching pajama set in bed and it's five. But I'm just working from my bed. Wow. See here I was talking about I don't have any time to myself and I have a whole night. I was just going to put comfortable clothes on. I was just going to change it in comfy clothes but then I was like why not just wear a matching pajama set. That makes way more sense. So anyways, I'm actually going to do a lot of research and just random stuff. I think Rimi and I are actually going to film a video with my from cook to cook new dog cookbook.  But yeah, it's going to be incredible. So I've been video planning and doing some really intriguing research and working on some branding stuff. But I think I'm going to finally make some dinner. Oh my gosh. Guys, I am going to be filming a what's on my iPad pro video on how I like digitally like plan. I don't know why I can't say that but yeah, that's coming soon. Okay, so I was showing you guys these masks that I got in the mail the other day. I have the royal treatment and then the essentials. So basically it's they're from 1520 but they're mask routines they make for you. I'm going to try out the essentials first but there's three face masks in each package which is like really cool. Okay. So you see, there's three of these. The first one I'm supposed to use is a soothing one. This is selfie prep. I'm going to a party tomorrow so that might be good. So I look crazy which is what these sheet masks do but I'll let you guys know how I like it. Oh wow. Anything like mask related I'm like so into. Let's get going, you know. I have like a ton of leftovers so I just heated this up and made some dinner. Again, it is my favorite meal ever. Guys, I'm branching out. I promise. Okay guys. So I'm just going to have a relaxing night. I'm not sure if I'm going to get any editing done. I think I really just want to take a break. So I have my laptop here. I'm going to watch Shane Dawson's new two hour video he posted today. My food. I'm just going to chill out. Maybe play on my iPad. You know, the normal stuff. Guys, it's 6.40. I just got ready for the day.  Here is my outfit. And then I'm just wearing my Falcons. I need to find other shoes to wear. I always do this. I get obsessed with one pair of shoes. And that's all they wear. But I just have my hair pulled back. This is what I'm wearing. I'm going to go get coffee with some of the girls from school. We're going to just do some like readings and stuff. And then, it sounds like we're doing psychic readings when I say that. Divos. And then we have school. So, I'm going to head out. Maybe being like, you're so right. Or being like, yes. Okay, I'm on my way to Blue Bottle right now. I'm so hungry. I'm going to get my favorite New Orleans Oatmeal. We already know this, guys. Oh, gosh. So, I'm listening to Girls on the Go. I normally listen to it on Wednesdays, but I couldn't yesterday. Like literally every single week on Wednesday mornings when I drive to class, that's when I listen to Girls on the Go. But, anyways, I'm on my way to Blue Bottle. Okay, I'm at Blue Bottle. I've been having what is this? Someone's playing like 80's music right now. Um, I'm parking. What the heck? I like love early mornings. I'm so into early mornings lately. It's just, you get so much done. It's beautiful. Got my New Orleans Oatmeal. And my amazing, oh my gosh, toast. God bless. Hi. Being angels. They're donuts. So cute. What if I just drop all of them? Yeah, I'll be like, sorry guys. Cherry tomato. Uh, so we got donuts. Dom, random class. I have a backpack. Oh, did you leave that? We just had chapel, and then we had a meeting, and now we're just grabbing lunch. It looks like we're in a cafeteria. It's raining, so we got grilled cheeses. Guys, it's like so gloomy. What the heck? Just came home to a package in the mail from Philanthropy. Um, I'm gonna like open these up. I'm super excited. These are like really nice quality crew neck sweater thing. Um, with a matching like jogger set. Like this is so cute, and you guys know I love stars, and the stars are like embroidered on there. I don't know if you can tell, so it looks even nicer. Okay, there's this sweater. That's basically just like a lounge or a sweater. That's awesome. And then there's just this white, um, like body suit t-shirt, which is awesome. I really want to get the white turtleneck body suit that they have, because I feel like I would wear that all the time. Um, yeah, these are super cute. I cannot wait to wear them. They're also really soft. Like, this is gonna be like one of my favorite things that I own this set. I can already tell. Made it downtown. I'm with Taylor. We are going to meet Olivia for, um, sweet grain. I love sweet grain. I'm like super into it right now. I used to be a hater. Why were you a hater? Um, because it's overpriced. Oh. I didn't think you got that much for your money, but now I'm into it. No, I'm not. Oh, oh, we go this way. So, we are, it feels so good to be back in my old hood. Um, we're going to Shelby's launch party. Shelby's launch party tonight for her app. We're very excited.  It's a very exciting time. It's a website. It's a website. Why did I think it was an app? Um, so it's a website. She didn't like the way they coded it. Gotcha. I'm staying corrected. So, we're on our way. Let's get food. So, we're at Sweet Green. Olivia's here now. I got the, what is it? Buffalo chicken bowl. That looks good. I am a huge fan of Sweet Green. You have an amazing establishment. Please love me. I eat here all the time. I literally eat here all the time, but it's so good. I haven't had this. They have like seasonal meals. It's just, it's incredible. Also, their gift cards are really cute. Anyways, amazing. It's funny. And Joe, my roommate would like love that. And so, and it's like cool burning. It's cool. It's just, because it's like funny. They're like saying it's cashew money with like explanation points drawn on it. Cause it's, it's like a salad. Like get it. It's healthy. Yeah. So, great establishment. Big fan. Guys, we're downtown and our Uber is a truck. This is, this is amazing. I was like, I love it. Thanks everyone for coming. This is super fun. I hope you guys enjoy it. So, I have my cup of coffee face mask on. I'm freezing.  I just been, I've been reading and answering emails for like hours now and it's like 10.30 and I need to, you know, get off my night. So I've class at 11 and then after that I'm getting my hair done today. Um, we're all going to Venice tonight. I'm trying to think of what else is going on. It's going to be a good day but I need to go work out first. It's my last workout of the week. I don't feel like, I only worked out three times. It's really not that many. But, whatever. Better than that. You know? Out of my workout, I died. Oh my gosh. They've been doing three G's this week. Just want to die. So I have to go pick up my disposables that I dropped off to develop yesterday and I'm going to stop by Urban and see if they have a gray champion hoodie because it will complete my outfit today. So I can see if I have one. Made it to Urban. Hopefully they have the hoodie. These filos are literally the exact cross between like my normal like filas and my Balkans. So, just with Urban, I got a crew neck from Champion. Hopefully it's the same gray as my sweats at home. We'll see. Whatever. I've been meeting so many people who have been saying like the podcast like today. I literally have met three people. Thank you guys. Love you. So sweet. Also, I got the photos back and they're cute. I hate, like, okay, let me show you. I scan these anyway so I guess I could edit them but I don't want to. Like, sometimes it's just super green. Like, I don't like how green the tent is. Like this photo. Why is it so green? Like, also annoying. This photo is really cute. See, I like the blue and white fades. Like, that's really cute. That's cute. Fine. Whatever. But like, do you see what I'm saying? Why is it green? Like, that is so annoying. Do you guys know anything? Please let me know. So anyways, this is pretty much, pretty much the same. So, another matching set. This is what I'm going to be wearing today. This is, you know, I'll dress it up and make it look nicer but like, this is where everyone's getting today. This is, here is my lunch. I need to leave in 10 minutes but looks amazing. I got you. And then, this is the before. My hair is horrible right now. Here we go. The main, some amazing coffee. Feels so, oh my gosh. So much better. Like, it's healthy and dark again and doesn't look like trash. Very excited about it.  So I will have her stuff linked down below. Like, she's the only person in LA that I let do my hair. And yeah, I just love it. She like, pretty much does the same thing. Like, we've been doing the same thing every time since I went there. I haven't used up my hair but I just love it. Like, so much better. Okay, so since I'm in Beverly Hills, I'm gonna go to Alfred and visit Joe at work. Um, I saw his trucks here. He's not one of my friends right now, but his truck's here. So, that means he's here. It feels so nice out guys. It's just so pretty. Thanks, Kelly guys. Beautiful. I've got an iced dirty chai. This is my favorite drink like, in general. I got it with oatmeal and then I just had some toasted coconut blueberry banana honey chia pudding. Just as a snack. Just left Alfred. Talked to Joe for a sec. Just hung out. Um, I got some editing done and I sent over some video notes to my editor. I think I'm just gonna use him for, like, basically any videos that are not vlogs, since I really like editing my vlogs, but I honestly hate editing normal, like, sit-down videos. It is, like, literally so pretty out right now. I'm just so happy. So, I'm in Venice, so I'm waiting. A few of my friends are meeting me and then I'm gonna drive them all to Venice. I actually really don't like Venice at all, but, you know, here I am for, like, the second week in a row going because I love my friends. Hey guys, the next day I've got it in at last night's vlog. We just turned out some friends and I did a vlog but I hope you guys enjoyed this week of my life vlog. Let me know if you guys


Hello everybody and welcome to the class. Are you all ready to learn Japanese today also? Learn more Japanese? Well, we have been doing te-form in our previous lessons and today also we will continue doing te-forms, how to use te-forms in different ways, different forms of te-form and also something new about Japan, some Kanji characters, a new kotowaza and a lot of other new vocabulary. So well, in the beginning let us do go over our assignments and let us see what you have done. So well, the first assignment that I gave you was very simple. This is a picture with lot of flat objects over here. You can name the objects, I am sure you know this vocabulary already and you are to ask how many sheets, stamps, envelopes, postcards, e-mail are there in the picture. These are the questions, I am sure you were able to do it properly. So I do not have to go over it, look at the picture and tell namai desu ka. Then take the most appropriate word from the brackets. So well, let us see what the first one is, Rao-san wa toki doki shokudo de tabemasu. So de over here is for activity being performed at a certain point or place. Then the second one is, ototoi watashi wa taroku ni aimashita, past is for ototoi which is a past time expression. The third one is, tomodachi wa nihon ni imasu, imasu a long sound as you can see is for to say or to speak, to be imasu is a single i. Then we have, kesa okahasan wa keiki wo tsukurimashita, past is for kesa over here, tsukai-mashita is to use and tsukimashita is to reach or arrive at a place, place ni tsukimashita. Then we have, watashi wa mayasa uchi de shinbun wo yomi masu, nomimasu is to drink and yarimasu is informal for shimasu which is to do. Rao-san wa shumatsu ni party wo shitai wants to do, shimashou is let's do and shite imasu is in present continuous form which you have already done. Watashi no imouto wa amerika e itte imasu is in amerika, iki-mashou is let's go and itte kudasai is please go, kanai wa shokki wo kai-mashita, so well you can see these different forms of verbs, how they are used. This is match group A with group B. So, you have the words over here in group A and the kanji characters in group B and let us see what the first one is, sambon. Bon is the counter for long cylindrical objects, ni-mai-mai is the counter for flat objects as you just did in your assignment in the first one. Kaimasu ashita takai, takai is also expensive and takai is also high as in height. Hanasu, kyu-haku, ningen, iriguchi and you can see over here that iriguchi has a re. Use it is written like this and sometimes without the re as well, daikaku, so a big place of learning is daikaku. Then take the appropriate word from the brackets again and I think this is all about particles, so let us see what particle to use where. Rao san, repoutou okutte kudasai please send, departo de nani wo kaimashita ka and please it is nani over here and not nan, nan is used with numbers most of the time. Dori wa nihongo de nandesuka, day as in in. Tanaka san wa ashita tokoe ikimasu ka, dono, dore for choice and donna which type of. Asoko no kata wa tokyo daigaku no sensei desu, of tokyo daigaku. Watashi no machi wa kirei de shizuka na machi desu. So well, joining two na adjectives kirei de and shizuka na machi desu or if you remove the machi from here it is shizuka desu, na is not required. Hako no naka ni nani mo arimasen, hako no naka ni locational noun over here, nani mo and thus arimasen meaning nothing. Tokoya to hanaya no aida ni ooki na ki ga arimasu. Tokoya is a barber to hanaya no aida ni between hanaya and tokoe ooki na ki ga arimasu. Ga over here is for emphasis for stating a fact and ooki na you will notice that oki is an i adjective, na is sometimes used with oki. This is an exception, so please remember it like this. There are other exceptions as well, we will do them later. Mondai wa omoshiro kute kantan desu. Again we are joining two adjectives i adjective and na adjective. So joining i adjective like this, you have to remove the i and put kute for and omoshiro i and easy. If you put na over here with mondai then it becomes mondai wa omoshiro kute kantan na mondai desu. As mondai is not present over here, we have not put mondai over here then it is just kantan without the na. So I hope your particles are clear now. Well, we have some more matching group A with group B.  So let us see. Koko wa densha no shuuten desu, shuuten is a terminal, koko de norikaete kudasai te kudasai, norikae masu is to change from one mode of transport to another, thus it is norikae te kudasai. Please change over here. Oto san wa aruite kaisha e ikimasu. Please remember, it is always aruite ikimasu and not ashi de ikimasu for walking. Gakko wa uchi kara toi desu, it is far from my house. Uchi means house and if you use uchi like this it is for my house. If it is for someone else's house it is otaku or light. Shigoto wa nanji ni owarimasu ka? Achira de sukoshi matte kudasai, over there, over there, chotto matte kudasai. Hagaki san mae onigai shimasu, kono yoshi ni namae wo kaite kudasai. She is paper or sheet or form, then Rao san wa san kai no jimushitsu ni imasu. San kai no jimushitsu means there are other jimushitsu as well, office as well, so san kai no jimushitsu is being specified. Well, lot of shukudai for you. I hope you did it properly, most of it was correct, there was no problem and you have practiced with your partner, with your friends at home. Try to speak as much as you can, it is easy, it is comfortable when you are talking, it helps you in conversation. So, well, we were doing te imasu form of the verb, te imasu. We did a lot of te imasu, that is continuous tense, ima watashi wa tatte imasu, ima minasan ni oshiete imasu, ima minasan wa watashi wo kiite imasu, shukudai wo shite imasu, swatte imasu. So well, te imasu is simple, easy to understand, present continuous tense where an action is in progress. Now, listen to this conversation, there is something new in this and let us see how much you understand. So well, what is new over here, let us see. Watashi wa ikkai kono kaiwa wo yomimasu kara, minasan yoku kiite kudasai. Rao san, ashita no gogo, jikan arimasu ka, dou shite desu ka? Ano, teribi wo kaitai desu ga, ah, watashi wa ii mise wo shitte imasu, ashita issho ni ikimashouka, onigai shimasu.  Ja, teribi wo katte, gohano tabete, ega wo mimashou. Ah, yokatta. Well, you can see all the new things in blue. There is a new pattern over here which you can see in the last line, in the second last line. Ja, teribi wo katte, gohano tabete, ega wo mimashou. That is what we are going to do with aru and kara wo with kara. So well, Rao san, ashita no gogo, afternoon jikan arimasu ka? Do you have time? Why? Dou shite desu ka? Ano, when you are starting a conversation, a little hesitant, then you use generally ano, not a-n-o, but a-n-o-o with a long sound. Teribi wo kaitai desu, kaitai you have already done, want to buy desu ga, you leave it incomplete. Ah, watashi wa ii mise wo shite imasu. I know, shite imasu means I know, I know of a certain nice place. And the negative is shiri masen, I do not know. Please remember, it is either shite imasu, I know or shiri masen. There is no other form. Ashita issho ni ikimashou ka, issho ni you have done, ikimashou, let us go, onegai shimasu is request. You can also say, sumimasen onegai shimasu, please I am sorry, but please could you come with me. Gogo roku-ji made shigoto ga aru kara, I have work, das sono ato ikimashou and you will notice that in between plain form of verb is being used. We have done this earlier, you can use it like this in conversation and practice with your friends. Ja, teribi wo katte gohan wo tabete ega wo mimashou, let us buy the TV, have food and then watch a film. So well, this is, this you can see from here from the last line that you can say a lot of things by just using te form of the verb. And you can convey a lot more in a single sentence. And yokatta is of course, that is really good. I am happy, yokatta, that is great. We can go and have food and watch a film as well. This is again in, as you can see over here, it is again in the script with hiragana and kanji today there is very little katakana of course, there is teribi here and that is about all that is how the language is written and of course, you have the translation over here. Now, one thing I want to tell you is, look at the literal translation that we do. Of course, well, let us buy TV, then have food and watch a film and then return. So this is what is actually written, but this is not how you would talk in English or that is good, you would not say that. You would say something entirely different. So well, sometimes literal translations, actual word by word translations sound a little odd, but that is what it is in Japanese. So first and foremost, let us practice verb in tei form. There are few pictures here, just let us have a recap of our tei form. Well, you have Tanaka san in the morning, wide awake, Mai asa roku-ji ni okimasu. Okiru is the verb, group 2 and okite, then Mai-ni-chi oshi-emasu, oshi-eru and oshi-ete. Then we have goji ni kaerimasu. What is the verb in plain form, dictionary form? Can you tell me? This is group 1 kaeru and tei form of the verb kaette. So well, you can see now that in group 2, these two verbs over here, it is just tei in tei form and in group 1 kaeru, it is ttei. Another picture for you over here, set of pictures, well, let us see what Tanaka san is doing now. Uchi e kaerimasu kaeru as you did just now, kaette, then kao arau araimasu arau, then we have terubio mimasu, miru and mite. So we have two group 1 verbs and one group 2 verb. You can make out from the tei tei and tei. So well, this is tei practice for you. Now simple tei imasu form, what we are going to do now is verb in tei form plus verb in tei form. Two verbs, maximum three verbs put together with masu in the end. You can say a lot of things, basically tei form as I told you earlier is and in English joining verbs like this and trying to say a lot of things in one sentence. You can read over here. One thing is important with tei form and that is the tense is not clear. You do not put the tense with tei form, tei form itself is just tei form and the tense can be seen from the last masu form in the end. For example over here, depato eite kaimono wo shite kairimasu. We will go to the department store, do shopping and then return. So well, this is all about the future. Kino ga ko de sensei ni atte hanashi mashita. This is past. Yesterday I met the teacher and I had a word with her. So you can see tei form does not tell you about the tense. Only what comes in the end, the tense is clear from there. So let us practice. Again, we have the same picture over here. Practice tei and tei form, uchi ei kaerimasu, kao wo araimasu, teribi wo mimasu. So what are you going to do? Uchi ei kaette, kao wo aratte, teribi wo mimasu. So one after the other you will see that action is always in a sequence. The sequence is very clear with tei form. I will do this first, then this and then this in the end. You can practice once again. Mai asa roku-ji ni okimasu, hachi-ji ni ga ko e ikimasu, goji ni kaerimasu. So well, Tanaka san wa roku-ji ni okite, hachi-ji ni ga ko e itte, goji ni uchi e kaerimasu. Or also Tanaka san wa mai-nichi roku-ji ni okite, asa hachi-ji ni ga ko e itte, kakusei ni nihongo wo oshi e te, goji ni uchi e kaerimasu. So you can keep adding but not more than 2, maximum 3. You can add tei form and complete a sentence.  There are these 4 pictures you can see. Tanaka san gets up in the morning, ko-cha wo nomimasu, is reading a paper and then rushing to office. So well, let us see what it is. Will you try all of you? What is it? Mai asa roku-ji ni okiru is the verb. So okite ko-cha wo nomu, ko-cha wo non-de, shin-bun wo yomu, shin-bun wo yonde kaisha e iku, kaisha e ikimasu. So please, jun-ba ni kore wo yatte kudasai, tomodachi to issho ni uchi de ren-shuu shite kudasai. Think of a situation and do it like this in a sequence with your partner. Well, you can see over here that Tanaka san is rushing to office, getting up so late and then having a nice cup of tea in the morning, reading paper as well. Naturally, he has to rush to office and then what happens? So, let us see, Mai asa roku-ji ni okite ko-cha wo non-de, shin-bun wo yonde kaisha e iku, masu. But he is late if he does all of this. So, well, what happens? He is rushing off to office, looking at his watch, looking very tense, bothered and what is he thinking? Well, o-sou-i means late. You can see he is looking at his watch, tokei wo bite imasu yo ne, soshite chotto kowai, shin-bai shite masu. Doshite darou, o-soku natte imasu kara chotto shin-bai shite masu yo ne, ja nani wo kangaete irun deshou? He is thinking of his bucho, his boss that he is late and he is in trouble and what happens then? Kaisha de, he is in his bucho's office, bucho is very very angry, very very angry and he says, o-soku natte sumimasen, moshiwake arimasen, o-soku natte sumimasen. This expression you have already done once earlier, o-soku natte sumimasen, I am sorry, I am late, moshiwake arimasen. I am extremely sorry, this is an apology with o-soku natte sumimasen, moshiwake arimasen. I am very very sorry that I am late and bucho is of course very angry. So here, the only thing is that you have to bow a little and then say, moshiwake arimasen. Please remember that this is an expression used very commonly if you are late, most of the time in fact when you are late, moshiwake arimasen, o-soku natte sumimasen. And then he is saying, mata osou yo yamada kun, it could be the other way round also he could say, mata osou yo yamada kun first and then he could apologize or before he says this he starts, yamada kun starts apologizing, either way it is alright. Then now in our last class we had dante imasu form of course which shows an action in progress. An action was happening now, it is going to happen now, it is happening now and is also happening now for a short while and then that action stops so in continuous tense. Today we will do te imasu again but it shows a condition, you are living a state. Now what does that mean? That means that for example, if you say I am married, kekon shite imasu, kekon shite imasu. That means that you are married, you are living that state, you are in that state. So that is another continuous tense which we are going to do today the te imasu form which we will do today. As you can see over here, te imasu also indicates and emphasizes a state or a condition rather than an action in progress. So for example, you have kekon shite imasu, you can also say for example, okane wo motte imasu, okane wo motte imasu. I am wearing or someone is wearing, okane wo motte imasu or kamera wo motte imasu. I have, I possess. So that is another way of using te imasu form. You will see here when we practice, there is a picture of this gentleman and Mariko san, Tanaka san and Mariko san over here and let us see what they are doing. Tanaka san is taking a picture, so Tanaka san wa shashin wo totte imasu. This is an action in progress, Tanaka san wa Mariko san no shashin wo totte imasu. Now over here, we can also say Tanaka san wa kamera wo motte imasu. He has a camera in this te imasu construction. There is another one, you have Tanaka san in Japan, so Tanaka san wa or Rao san wa doko ni imasu ka? You can ask a question, Rao san wa doko ni imasu ka? Rao san wa nihon ni sunde imasu. He is living in Japan, so he is in a state, it is not going to finish now in next 5 minutes or it is not going to finish in another half an hour, one hour. He is living that condition, that state that is Rao san wa nihon ni sunde imasu, te imasu or de imasu form. So well, now let us practice this small kai wa, how to use these words, how to make simple conversation with these words and this te imasu form. Rao san kaisha wa dochira desu ka? Watashi wa abc ginko, x, y, z ginko, name of the ginko ni stomete imasu. I am working over there. Mai nichi isogashi desu ka? Sou desu, mai nichi isogashi desu. Arun san wa, you will see again has been left incomplete with the rising intonation. Arun san wa watashi wa yubinkyoku ni stomete imasu. Ii desu ne, kitte wo kaitai toki raku desu ne. Kyoku is very very convenient or easy, kitte wo kaitai toki. Toki is time at the time of stamps, it is very very easy. That is when you want to buy stamps, it is very convenient for you. You are in the yubing kyoku. So well, you can change abc ginko for any gakko, toshokan, library or byoing hospital and yubinkyoku for daigaku, shokudo, depato, any of this that is given over here. One thing which is new is dochira. There was a word achira earlier in your shukudai, your assignment. It is of the same series, we have done it earlier once. It is similar to koko, soko, asoko and doko over here, over here, sochira and kochira. Dochira means over here, sochira means over there, achira means that over there and dochira means where. It is used for location, it is used for direction. Dozo kochira e kite kudasai, please come over here. And also, dochira the way it is used over here is very very typical. Over here E-san is asking Rao san kaisha wa dochira desu ka, meaning, literal meaning is where is your office. It is used in that way also, but the basic meaning of this sentence is where do you work. So, this is an exception kaisha wa dochira desu ka. This is an exception please, this is how you would ask where a person is working. The meaning you get from here is where is your office, but what you want to know is where are you working. So, please try to use it like this in Japanese and use these words that are given over here. Do a simple conversation like this. Now, we have been doing katakana all along, have completed number of syllables we have done in katakana. Well, let us see what we have here, we have the ha series, simple line 1, line 2. You can see the stroke order, it is important because you have seen that in the script we write hiragana, katakana and kanji simultaneously and the script and the writing is not complete without any of these. So, well you have to learn katakana, kanji and hiragana if you want to write and it is given very clearly over here, the stroke order is very clear. You can write it again and again, use a maths book, use a graph sheet initially, it is good, it is easy to use, easy to understand. You get the right method of writing, right proportion, so well this is katakana. You have all of it here on one sheet, ha, hi, hu, he and ho and you will see it is so angular, it is not cursive at all, very masculine from kanji characters, thus it is like this. So, please try to copy the exact proportions as well. Now, we are also doing kanji all the time, we have done a number of kanji characters of course I will be doing kanji separately also with you, but a few words here for you which we have covered in our lesson or may be somewhere they are simple, you know the words and we will try to just get the stroke order once and see how many strokes are there to this character. Then you will see it is made of two characters here, two kanji characters, well this is ame, ame means rain, ame also means sugar candy, ame, this is ame, this is rain, this character of course signifies rain, ame. Now ame here 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, then denki means electricity. How it is made from where it has come, we will just see very quickly, but before that you can see it is a 13 stroke character, we have another one over here, ki, ki is 1, 2, this is small 3, 4, 5 and 6, ki means soul, the spirit is ki, den like this and ki, den ki is electricity. So, that is one word you have done already and 6, it is a 6 stroke character, you have done this word denki, now you can do the kanji also, kuruma or sha, two readings to this kuruma, you know the word kuruma, kuruma means car, how is it made, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and then you have a 6 over here, once again 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, it is a 7 stroke character, I am sorry I just said 6, so it is a 7 stroke character, sha or a kuruma, sha means wheels, so it is a 7 stroke character. Now, how is denki or electricity? How has it come into being? Well, from clouds rain, thunder affects the paddy fields and thus it is denki, that is how it is made. So, you have the stroke order, you can practice the stroke order and feel comfortable. Now, you have kuruma or sha over here, you have the stroke order, how it is made, if you look at a car, well that is how it is. The base is shown, this is your car, this is your car like this, with the 4 wheels here and this is the base that is shown in the slide, you can see over here, this is the base of the car, the wheels of the car and that is how it moves, thus it is sha. Denki is the word, denki means electricity and you have another word which you have done earlier which is den-sha, den-sha means a train and sha means or kuruma means a car, jid-o-sha means a veh-ke. Anything moving on wheels on its own is jid-o-sha which is a veh-ke, den-sha means train as is given over here. I have also been telling you about proverbs. Now, what are proverbs? You can see it is given koto waza, what is koto waza? Koto waza is a word and waza means using that word very, very smartly in a very intelligent way to say something in short. That you want to convey in short to people is a koto waza. What people think about the country, about the nation, about how people of that community think and behave. So, well there is a very nice koto waza over here which tells you so much about the Japanese you can see. It says, kabe ni mimi ari, shou-ji ni me ari. Now, what does this mean? We have this saying in India also in Hindi and I am sure in most of the languages there will be a saying like this, kabe ni mimi ari, shou-ji ni me ari, kabe is a wall, mimi is ears as is given over here, me is eyes and doa is door, kabe ni mimi ari, shou-ji ni me ari. Shou-ji is the Japanese doors and kabe is the wall. The kanji characters are also given over here. Now, what does this saying say and what does it tell? Well, it tells that one has to be very careful, one has to be very, very careful about talking and saying what they are saying especially in Japan, especially because these sayings are, some of them are also from China, the bases in China somewhere. So, well, why because the doors in Japan are not concrete doors or concrete walls, are not wooden doors, are not solid stone doors or walls because of the simple reason that they have earthquakes. So, they could not build it like that and they are paper doors, sliding panels, sliding screens which are used as doors and because they are paper, whatever is said in one room could be easily heard outside, could be misconstrued, could be presented in a different manner completely. So, thus one has to be very, very careful, one has to be very sure of what they are saying, one has to be private, as anything said could be used in whichever way, whichever manner the other person would want to use it. So, this saying is very important, kabe ni mimi ari, shouji ni me ari. Now, you will see what shouji is right here after the proverb, these are screens, removable panels, sliding panels which are used as doors in Japan. They are very light, very easy to handle. One very important thing about these doors is that inside the house even if the doors are closed, the light can be seen, it can come in. So, well it is not very dark inside, it is nice and bright inside because of the sheets that are used. The paper earlier that was used was handmade paper on these panels and as it was very expensive, this paper that was used was made from mulberry bush, from the mulberry tree or the kozo tree, it was very expensive and difficult for people to afford. But now, because of synthetic material coming in, these doors are very easy to make, not very expensive and are affordable as well. So, what you can do with these doors is, you can, these sliding panels is, you can remove all the panels of the house and make a big room out of your house and you can again put the doors on the sliding rails and make rooms from it. You can see, you can decorate it very nicely with paintings, you can have the paintings on the doors, decorate them, use white paper on it, can have them as screens, as your lamp shades, you can decorate them whichever way you want. They look very aesthetic, they are very easy to handle, can be replaced, not heavy, can be shifted from one place to another, too beautiful or environment friendly and are becoming very, very popular outside Japan as well for these very reasons. And everything is written about the screens over here, you can read about this, you can read on the net as well, all the pictures have the websites given, you can check on that, you can read more about Shouji and Fusuma and learn more about Japan. These are tatami panels which are used as flooring material in Japan, these are made out of straw on wooden structures and are easy to handle, quick to make and can be replaced whenever one wants and also it is very convenient because the flooring of the room can be done very, very quickly and are eco-friendly as you can see. So well, with our saying there, one has to be very, very careful in Japan for these reasons that one could be heard behind the doors. Now, this is vocabulary for you, you could go over the vocabulary, learn all of this, try to use it in your conversation. I will read it out once. So well, the meanings are given over here, you can see the meanings and now, my work ends over here. You have done a lot of new things, you have done a lot of new forms today, new vocabulary, learnt something about Japan as well, about Fusuma, you could write about Fusuma and Shouji and we could discuss it in our next class again, whatever you have learnt, you could get some pictures and we could share the pictures. So, well your assignments are right here for you, match all of these, the words are given here, you can match them with the pictures, look at the pictures here and tell what they are doing. Then combine the sentences with te-form, change the sentences from English to Japanese, choose correct Kanji from here, then write proper expressions. And there is lot of work for you now, you can go home, practice with your partner, look up your lessons and try to read and we will do something new next time, maybe something again on te-form, continue our te-form, we will try to continue te-form and learn something new. Till then, mata-aimashou. Thank you, arigatou gozaimasu.


Well what we're doing today is we're collecting a lot of different objects that are on the surface of the excavation. They divide it up as you can see into squares. Each student goes into a square and picks up any objects that he might see glass or metal or pottery.  That kind of shows them where things you know might have once been. I haven't had a chance to do any of the background research that I typically would do before I come out onto a site but I would guess at this point that we've got some kind of a main house or structure just over my shoulder here and then some ancillary buildings that wouldn't be uncommon in any kind of a plantation or even a small-scale farmstead. Well today I found a lot of iron in this square. It appears that this area was where they made you know iron tools and things like that and over there I found things like ceramics and iron pieces and stuff like that. I found these two nails but they looked like they could be modern and this is rock that's very really old and the pottery seems to be more up-to-date with what we're looking at. All of the artifacts that the students help us collect out here are going to be taken back to one of our labs and processed, cleaned and then analyzed and catalogued. At that point we'll generate data tables that'll get sent back to me so I can produce my compliance report. At the end are going to be put into storage containers and brought back to North Carolina where they'll be stored at the repository in Raleigh. It's been really interesting. I found a lot of interesting stuff and it's pretty neat to imagine what it was like a couple hundred years ago. Oh it's great for students to come out and enjoy the site or get to see archaeology. One of my first experiences with archaeology was as a student actually in elementary school so I think it's great for them to get to come out. It's been really fun and interesting because I never knew what an archaeologist did. It's a really awesome experience just getting to help the professionals uncover evidence of this area's past and the ancient peoples that used to live here.


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Aaron Taion joked on the field that the starters coming into the series and why don't we all just pitch seven or eight innings And he was a little nervous heading into it to this evening. How do you what do you think about the way he responded? Very well, he was great pitch efficient on the attack, you know get that one three ball count but rallied in it Yeah, I thought the defense behind him was really good number of good plays around the horn, but he was in control of the game and Had a little bit of everything going and Got the ball to play there to finish it off But just just another great performance from one of our starters He was pretty economical 93 pitches through eight any consideration of sending him back out there. No No, I was I was going to clay there in a safe situation had we tacked on a couple runs Then I would have considered going to him there, but I was gonna go to clay there in the ninth No, I think it's been a point of emphasis for you know years now, you know, you got to be in the strike zone You know You know obviously getting the heads important strike throwing is really important and then When you're doing that then you can start leveraging counts and dictating counts And then you can you know start to get chases by moving it off the plate when you have that count leverage, so I don't think it put up more of a point of emphasis this year than it has been in past He also mentioned he wasn't sure if he necessarily had his best stuff But just found a way to make big pitches when it mattered. Did you see that as well or did you feel different? I don't know. I felt I felt he was pretty sharp to me Maybe not quite the life that maybe had his on his fastball that maybe had the last couple of times And and you know, there was some sprinkled in some hard contact there against them But like I said, the defense was was really good, but I thought Jamo was You know, maybe not his best stuff, but I thought he was really sharp coming into this season people look at the rotation There were question marks Severino first four year back time and come up the surgery cold struggles at some point last year But when you look at what they've done so far beat basically all five guys What can you say about the rotation as a whole? I think they've been the best group to this point in the league You know, we're Like I caution that with it's early and we got to keep doing it But I'm not surprised that they're going out and pitching as well as they are. I know what they're all capable of and I know how prepared they all are. I know how together they are all they all are and And it's good to see them, you know You know taking pride in their day and and being the next guy to really step up But I'm not surprised at any of their success Laborers talking about the infield defense and how excited they were to play up with my own pitching How does that work together the picture on the defense? Yeah, you know, I think anytime you get into a good rhythm and pace You know as a as a fielder, I know You know just Personally and playing anytime a guy had had a good rhythm and pace to him and worked Not necessarily all the time quickly, but just a good solid pace to him It did feel like you were just a little bit more engaged a little bit more on your toes And I thought Jamo certainly did that tonight and certainly set a good tone from that standpoint and and you know The result I think you look around the diamond a lot of guys chipped in with some really nice plays Yeah, I mean you guys need to look it up how many sub three hours It's a lot. It's a lot. I mean 223 is really good Man Wasn't seven I can almost make it to birds What's that was that I got like after carpet that was good Pretty fired up. He's he's coming and right away. You get a sense. He's he's kind of fit in with the group really well You can really tell he's excited to be here and be a part of this and You know for a guy that's had the career. He's had you know to be in here with these guys I think he fits in well and for him to really make some some really strong contributions here in these first two games Has been big and glad to see him have some some instant success coming over How hard is that to do when he hasn't played in a week?  Sometimes it it takes a minute. So You know, you never quite know with with your timing and swing and all but certainly it's been good to see him Have really, you know, what's he been on base four times probably now? A lot of good at bats You know and you know facing a lot of lefties to where he's had really competitive at bats They're really good to see Yeah, I was you know, if we got in a certain situation I was kind of had DJ moving to to potentially Hit so yeah, they were options. Cleaver has eight humbers already. No, I think he had nine last year All year What do you see in there that is a home run swing bag or just better at bats all around? I think What the home runs are gonna come and go and you know, sometimes they happen in bunches I think what what we've seen to this point is just a better quality of contact throughout the season and You know, I think that's I Think his lower half's been better and getting himself into better stronger positions More consistently and that's allowing him to get off some really good swings and so it's been nice that he's hit the ball out of the ballpark and Some but but I think overall You know, and I would I would say he's probably even been a little bit unlucky, you know with as consistently as he's hit the ball hard That's what we're seeing better is consistently just Better contact and I think that starts with his base and getting into better positions consistently Oh, it's great. I you know off the bat. I I didn't think he was even gonna be in the vicinity and then it's just kind of Yeah, it was I think they got a fist pump from me so that was it was a good play


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Knowledge 16, brought to you by ServiceNow. Here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick. We're back, this is theCUBE at Knowledge 16. This is day one of our three day coverage. theCUBE goes out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise. We got a team down at SAP Sapphire today, but the A team is here. Well, half of the A team anyway. John Furrier, colleagues, extracting all the signal from Sapphire, but we're here talking to CIOs, talking to practitioners about service management, the next wave beyond IT service management. Gerald Papa, which is here, he's the Vice President of Information Technology at H&R Block in Canada. Gerald, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Yeah, I appreciate it, thanks guys. So, Knowledge keeps growing. I don't know if this is, how many events have you been to? Is this not your first, right? This is actually my first. It is the first. So what do you think? Well, it's fabulous. I appreciate ServiceNow being able to move it outside of tax season so I can attend.  Ha ha, right. That's right, it used to be in April. It used to be in April, and there's a little thing going on right at the end of April is just completing this tax season. So it's fabulous for myself to be able to get down here and take a look and get caught up in what everyone else is doing and the excitement, yeah. So your role at H&R Block is you have a distributed business, obviously. Everywhere you go, H&R Block offices, you service those facilities, presumably, right? Absolutely. So talk a little bit about your role and want to get into the recent tax season. Yeah, so all of IT operations in Canada, so that's coast to coast. 900 stores at peak, as well as 400 franchise stores. So it's ensuring that the technology and the information systems and more importantly, the reaction to anything that can go wrong out there, that falls under the bailiwick of IT. So it's quite a monumental task. I actually, when I talk to some of my peers, I say that we're not actually in the tax business in IT. We're the merger and divestiture business. We go from 200 stores year round and ramp up to 900 stores in a three week period in January to get open for when people come and do their taxes in February. So extreme seasonality. You make the Thanksgiving to Christmas break look long. Yeah, absolutely. And Congress works like what, two days a week now. So the ink is drying at the beginning of the year in tax season. I don't know what it's like in Canada using a US analogy, but nonetheless, a lot of rules, compliance, things change, the code changes. You got to get all that out and there's this compressed timeframe. So how did this year go? Give us the insight. Well in Canada, it's a little bit different than in the US. So it's not as mandatory to file your taxes by the end of tax season, especially if you get a refund. And apparently this year, the Canadian tax filers decided to be a little less mandatory than normal in more than a three and a half percent drop in tax filers coming in and filing their taxes. And we certainly felt our share of that drop. On the IT front though, this is probably our most successful year in the history of block of being able to ramp up, get the offices going, deliver new solutions, new technologies. And so the tax filers were prepared.  So talk about the rollout this year. How'd you go from 200 to 900? Take us through that experience. So when I started four years ago in eight months and a few days, we didn't actually have a plan. It was almost like a pregnancy for women is that everyone wanted to forget the monumental task of getting through tax season. And we would stand up and try to figure out how to do it all over again. So two years ago, we embarked upon the establishment of a repeatable plan for this merger of getting from 200 to 900. And we actually mapped out the 23 different milestones or tax ready components needed to get our offices up and going. And we put all that into workflow and service now. A lot of it was manually checking off. Yeah, it's complete. It's done. That culminated in managing in that three week period, 64,000 tasks up on a service now heat map saying, hey, here we go. This store is complete. This store is complete. And we can observe day by day stores that are falling behind. So that head office and the rest of the organization, they're able to call out, reach out and get those stores back on track as opposed to finding out weeks later, if not months later, that the stores are not actually open for the business that we're looking for. And you're talking about IT systems, physical plants, tax advisor people. I mean, it's literally a carbon copy of a regular everyday store. Absolutely. You know, the 400 kiosk that you'll find in the Walmart and you'll find in the malls, those don't exist two days before. So it's the entire, the desks, the walls, the printers, the paper, the signage, the ink. Everything has to start from scratch. So the organization of all those things, from our perspective in IT, we started with, we have to get a plan to get us so we can get ahead of this and quit having calls in the middle of February, middle of March, middle of April, we still don't have everything up and running. And it actually has blossomed out into the rest of the organization of, well, IT's not the only thing that has to get all of this ready. So we actually have real estate, we have legal and finance, they're part of the milestones to get that monumental feat up and running. And when does it start? T minus April 30th. So we've finished our year-end last Thursday and we started Friday, getting ready for the next tax season. And when did you bring in service now? So that was, you get two cards to play when you start as in charge of IT, and that was one of them I played. And then the second one you never actually get to use. So fortunately I chose service now. So that was within eight months of my starting there. So it's been four years now that we've had service now in. And initially we brought it in for IT, to get better at IT. And then I realized, well, we have a monumental component of managing across the board. And as we started showing the business operations team, how we're managing tracking IT's delivery, they've jumped on board. So I'm sorry, you said four years ago you brought in? Four years ago, yes. Okay, so just when you come inside it with your tenure, how would you have done this without service now? Would you use Basecamp or like some projects? Yeah, with a whole bunch of project managers and picking Microsoft project or whatever other tool, and a whole bunch of what I would have assessed, a bunch of failures of missing, getting the information back from the field about what's working and what's not working. Because you just can't have 64,000 tasks managed in a three week period, knowing what has worked and what hasn't worked. And had you used it before? I mean, obviously probably not to the same scale, but in more of the broader application how did you really see the applicability to go beyond the IT management to this multifaceted, multi-headed monster? So this was the first foray of using ServiceNow to do something outside of IT service management, ITIL. I mean, ITIL version three expert, I went through all of that. I know that finding the right fit for purpose of all that theory in an organization is the component that IT needs to figure out how to do well. And ServiceNow, even though it wasn't startup four years ago, in my mind it was a startup compared to the remedies compared to the HPs of being flexible. It really is a workflow builder. It's not a service management suite. And that's what I instantly saw. And had some of my inter-core network, they were successfully using it elsewhere in those incredibly short time frames. Oh, we stood this up in a month, we stood that up in two months. And three months later, the business is now up and running versus the seven month, 12 month, 18 month implementation of any previous service management ERPs before. I'm a ITIL expert, but I've read some things about some of its limits in terms of just across the organization tends to be somewhat stove piped. Is that fair? And is this notion of Siam taking hold in your world? So, when you use ServiceNow or any tool for IT specific and you speak IT language in your IT geek and then you try to talk and branch that silo purpose built for IT out to the business, they look at you funny. You got horns going out of your head, go away, we don't want to talk to you. But when you leverage the people you have, the processes and fit them within a tool that actually delivers business results faster and then you invite them in. Hey, why don't you come in and use the same thing? You have the same challenges we had. Let's figure out how we can make this better and actually give the ownership up of the reporting and the escalation of 64,000 tasks for 900 offices to the business. As soon as that happened, they started championing it for themselves. Hey, we need to get real estate in here because we have contracts and we have leases and we have et cetera that need to be managed in the same framework. So we're out 84,000 tasks last year. So 64 to 84,000. And have you parlayed the success in the construction of the temporary HR block for April 30th into other applications inside the everyday supporting the regular business? So that's probably the most exciting thing about what we've been able to do is demonstrate how powerful of a business outcome just through that merger acquisition divestiture component. And we have changed the way that tax pros are supposed to behave by applying key performance metrics to our delivery platform. Our executive leadership team, we want to have tax pros deliver a client service approach to our tax filers and chose the academic grade. We need to greet our clients. We need to relate to them. We need to give them the experience that we want to every single time. We need to add value to whatever it is that they've come in. We need to make sure we thank them. In each of those, we have some KPIs and using service now we made available to 900 office leaders times two because you have a day shift and a night shift, the 55 district managers watching over those and the five regional directors, how each office is performing through the service now dashboard of those KPIs rolling up all the data from the different systems. And it structures and changes the way that they are able to manage the leaders and the tax pros in the office to change the behaviors we're looking for. And we've actually been able to increase NPS over the marriage of that great service delivery platform and utilizing service now as the means to demonstrate the effectiveness of it from 35 to 50 this year in the last two years. With a real time dashboard. With a real time dashboard. With a backward looking report that comes every so often. As opposed to finding out at the end of tax season whether tax filers fail to fire us or not through our retention reports which you don't get until. Well the other thing too is it's a real time dashboard that's not just a 10,000 foot view that's top down and bottom up view. That's what's always impressed me about this platform. How much custom development are you doing? I don't have a big IT team so we do not do custom development. Everything is just figuring out how to use the workflow builder to build it. Now I do have the luxury of having last year's hackathon winner in my team, so, right? He can make it sing. So you're doing that down the road? Yeah, he's been practicing all week to get ready for it. So you're not building custom apps but you are? We're building custom workflows using the way service now is designed to be. This is configuration, not customization. And how, I mean it varies but give us a sense of the bell curve. How challenging is it to build those custom workflows? It's unlike anything that I've ever had to leader experience. It is so simple, it is so easy. And probably the best part about it is after you've built the workflow and you realize, oh, we either missed an approval step, we missed somebody, you just go at it, change it, and in you go and you're up and working with the new improved process that doesn't change the way the business works. I want to ask you about security a little bit. As an IT professional practitioner, what's the security conversation like in your organization when you're having conversations with senior execs? Describe it. So we've, I hope not only execs are here watching. We've kind of taken approach of, and just due to some, the sheer magnitude of trying to get the technology debt caught up. Hope and pray we don't get on front page news. This is the first year that we've actually really taken a look at monitoring and being able to track security events. So it now is, we have religion. I've never let a crisis go and waste it, so we now have an opportunity and a challenge to go and improve security. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about that with what's going on in service now, because of all the things that are going on with, we have 8,500 tax pros, and they're the biggest security risk. They're the ones that have clicked on a number of ransomware emails and zip files and open stuff up. And just the way that we interact with tax filers, they send us information that could be infected. And we're supposed to open that information to effectively work through. So we'd have a challenge to catch up with and protect ourselves and protect our tax filers from themselves. But when we pick platforms that are secure in their nature, that's one huge less thing that we have to worry about. And we can go after the communicate security awareness and training. Okay, so that's good. So the cloud helps in that regard, it's ironic, right? Because everybody talks about, I wanted on-prem, but I don't know about your security, but I guarantee that service now security is better than my security. Take that problem from me. But is it fair to say that you are, well, are you spending more time or attention on the response to incidents? Absolutely. We had a security team of one and we'll soon have a security team of two partnered up with a security partner and we'll actually be able to take the incidents that we find. And we've already had to respond to them and we found out really quickly that calling up the food chain to myself and then I have to call the CISO in Kansas City is not an effective answer response plan. But we're actually being able to start Q things up and with the soon to be finished implementation of the governance and compliance module within ServiceNow, we'll be able to track and do a post-tax season analysis on what is our security risk in our profile and what do we have to go after to be able to help. Tax filers understand and be aware of what's going on as well as what are the things that we need to tap first and implement to increase our security awareness. And you're treating it in your framework of service management as yet another security or service response. Absolutely and just like every other component in the organization, we need to get it into the Q management and then be able to track it later. We will forget what this tax season felt like so that next year when we have security events we can go back and take a look and say, okay, did we learn anything from what's going on? We tried some things over the off season and are they working or are they not working? Darrell, what's the last question? What's on your horizon, your service management roadmap? Show us a little leg if you will and tell us what's next. So our field office writing this dashboard, the 84,000 tasks that we managed to get up and running, now I need to take that real time. So after we get it up and running things break or we have really technically sound individuals out there that decide to rewire the office and we're not aware of what goes on. So we need to actually have a tax ready dashboard. Very interesting that Frank this morning at the keynote was talking about how we need to be able to monitor in real time and reprioritize. Because I do need to get the emails out of my inbox from my chief operating officer and from my president about this office is down, you have to get it back up and going. I would like him to look at the same info that I am of while I would prefer to get these 50 offices back up and running because we have some component in the distributed network down and be able to do that real time prioritization about what is important and be able to still service all of our clients. New way of working. Absolutely, yeah, it'll be, it's exciting and interesting and I think that it'll completely transform the way we're able to resolve and solve our tax filers issues. Del, great segment, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks guys. All right, keep it right there, buddy. Jeff will be back with our next guest right after this word. This is theCUBE.


That's how I lost everything I own. They took my house, they took my car, I was sleeping in a car that my friend gave me, sleeping on people's couches, eating out of people's refrigerators, roofing houses and working on an oil rig and serving tables. But I was just curious what your percentage breakdown is in your business as far as how much flips you do versus buy and hold and what else you do. Like I've done, I've dabbled in a little of everything. I've done a deal with naming. I've done a little lending. I've done flipping our own rental properties where my husband and I are sweet in hammers and painting and we're still married. So anyway. I've pretty much flipped a house a month, I guess, on average, I'll normally have like maybe like three to five happening at once, just because they kind of overlap each other, you know, with buying them and renovating them and getting them on the market and stuff. And like right now, I've got some that are kind of sitting on the market, you know, that should have sold, but that's okay. I'm in them really good. You know, when you buy stuff at the courthouse, you know, you get a good deal and I make sure I'm buying stuff, you know, really cheap. And so I have my stopping point on the auctions and I don't go out and, you know, prospect to flip houses. You know, I just buy them at the courthouse. It's easy. I see them coming up and I can check them out and see what I think they're worth, see what I'm willing to bid, pay cash for those. See guys, in 2003 and four and five, I made a mill as a really, you know, my early 20s and I took that money and started flipping. But the problem was I was leveraging to flip.  And then when the market crashed, I got called, I had about a million and a half worth of debt and that's how I lost everything I own. I took my house, I took my car, I was sleeping in a car that my friend gave me, sleeping on people's couches, eating out of people's refrigerators, roofing houses and working on an oil rig and serving tables. And so I'll never borrow money to flip a house ever again. That's fine if you guys do. I'm just never going to do that. I don't have to, I have cash and I'm going, if I'm gonna flip a house, if I'm gonna, if I want it to do a short term profit, that's where you can get into trouble. It's more risky. And I'm not gonna risk that situation. Now, if I get, but the cool thing is, is if I buy a flip and I paid cash and I do get caught, I can rent it out and take out an equity line and then take that tax-free money and go buy another rental. So I win either way, right? But again, I'm not a big fan of it. I would rather do something else with my money, buy long-term rentals and stuff and not flip. But yeah, I'm gonna normally do about one a month and then I don't know, like personally, I probably buy 20, 30 doors a year, something like that, duplexes, four-plexes, single families, commercial buildings, stuff like that. But now I'm getting into syndication stuff. I mean, my goal this year is to buy $100 million worth of stuff. And I mean, I'm looking for deals now. Florida, Alabama, anywhere in the Southeast, really. 10 to 100 deals. I mean, 10 to 100 units. Anything I can find, I'm looking at. I'm underwriting. And the problem is everything's overpriced right now. I mean, it's like you're the luckiest man in the world if you find a six cap. It's like six is like as big as I've found lately. And I've looked at a lot of deals. And the numbers just, they're not that great at 6% cap on these deals. And I remember the days where, you know, you were looking at seven to 10% caps. And those numbers weren't great. You're looking at an eight or nine cap on something. You just don't see it anymore just because prices went up so much. So we'll kind of see what happens, you know, as this interest rate thing hits the commercial market with the adjustable rate mortgages that are sitting out there. Maybe we'll see some deals. I'm hoping we do.