I never know how to start videos, how to introduce something, and I always end up singing something or saying hello, but I always avoid saying hello because it's so mainstream but then I feel guilty because I didn't say hello to you and sometimes you comment literally, you didn't say hello no, I have never received comments like those so yes, I am here trying to look very comfortable, very welcoming to you guys because did I move this, no? I'm nervous and I'm avoiding reality by focusing on other details so yeah, I'm wearing this fluffy thing even though it's like 73 degrees it's not really that, it's cold I just want to have some kind of comfort item so I can rely on that while I'm having this anxiety crisis in front of the camera I need more fluffy things an octopus now I can introduce this video in a proper way, not the awkward thing I just did hello, welcome to another video in my channel, this is not a random one this is my 10,000 plus subscribers special and I'm gonna make a Q&A video yeah, I know, I promised a Q&A video probably 6 months ago okay, 5 months ago could you ask me some questions to make a Q&A video? anything works, thank you, have a good day and I never did a Q&A until now Alejandro Luca Rodriguez asks what do you do for a living? let me put this mic a bit closer to me I'm sorry Mr. Octopus what I do for a living is YouTube I could be working on something else but honestly, I really like investing all of my time on YouTube it is my hobby I am pursuing this YouTube career so that is precisely what I do for a living and I'm very happy about it but of course I don't know what happens in the future extroverted intuition here doesn't know what happens in the future there are so many possibilities what have you studied? have you studied? I studied, studied and environment environmental engineering in a university called Usach okay, look, I just answered one question and I'm kind of overwhelmed I need a break I already opened up too much what does MBTI means for you? to me it means mini boats travel impatiently because as the sentence says we humans, MBTI enthusiasts are mini boats in this let's say ocean okay, ocean is life we are mini boats which means that we are at risk all the time you know, big boats, normal boats are just moving around whatever but we are mini boats and mini boats are very light so any wind, any strong or not even strong wave can make us sink so why are we traveling impatiently? because we are weak we are light we are at risk all the time and we are impatiently looking for an island we are looking for a land to find people we can actually connect with serious Mike close to me and when we want to find people who connect with us what are we looking for? are we looking for people who understand us or are we looking for people who can make us improve those parts of ourselves that are not developed enough so I think it is very hard to find people we connect with very hard and so when you get to that island that island, you will probably see natives living in that island and you're gonna be like wait, am I supposed to be safe here? I was looking for a land because I can't be in the uncertainty of the ocean when the wind can make me sink not the wind, the water but you know what I mean why are we seeing at these people that are so different to us these natives that already have a code already have a language already have traditions in a culture and we are suddenly realizing that we somehow ended up in the same island why? because of the cognitive functions okay, no, not serious, Mike I'm aware of the fact that many people have different opinions about MBTI pseudoscience pseudoscience about how it's a pseudoscience pseudoscience, yeah? some other people say it's kind of okay or legit and even though I would never dare to use it as a professional mechanism no, not never, you know I mean, for now, we cannot rely on a system, on one particular system to diagnose people and say oh, you are this and that's why you are like this and that's what happened to you when you were a kid and now you do this because you are like this and because you have this function as dominant yes, thank you very much let's meet in the next session I think MBTI is a very personal tool it could work as much as I'm trying to think of a system that we use that is legit but we use personally you know when we read tarot, tarot we see the cards and we are reflecting ourselves in what we see because there are certain symbols that trigger ideas that are not in our consciousness because they are not present 24-7 but they are in the back of our head and that is precisely what I think of MBTI sometimes but I also think it is a very good tool to organize and me particularly I have a lot of fun doing that and whether it's real or not real whether it's a science or not a science I think for all of us who are interested in the personality typing we have learned a lot about ourselves we have learned a lot about other people I feel like I respect even more now that I understand others better that I know sometimes why certain people have certain preferences and I also learned how to accept myself with this I learned how to say, you know what this is me and I'm not supposed to be an FE dominant all the time because before MBTI I was trying to fit in a lot not trying to fit in I never tried hard always feeling that there was something wrong that I was reacting in a way that I shouldn't react that I was maybe too selfish that I was mirroring others too much that I was not confident of my own social traits so I think for us INTPs specifically and other introvert intuitives in everyone really it is a very good tool science based or not to develop all those things that we lack that's what MBTI means for me mini boats travel impatiently that was a long ass answer I'm sorry favorite food porotos con masa morra yeah I'm gonna put a PNG picture over here I love porotos con masa morra there are beans with corn and sometimes it can be spicy because we use agicolor okay don't make me hungry with your questions how much are you into music have you ever created any original songs when can we expect that album to drop I am very into music music in my life is like well I really like dancing and singing I guess I learned a lot of things with music I learned how to interact with people and with my I learned it as a language because if I sing I feel more honest I feel I can actually open up because it puts me in this emotional mood in general I struggle with having strong emotions I struggle with living the emotion if I don't live it it's very foggy everything is very foggy in my mind and music helps me to open up certain things that I'm kind of ignoring or rejecting because usually when I don't know why I'm speaking about emotions you ask me about music music helps me as a language yes I actually have created any original songs it's unspotified my first song is whimsical and you can expect the album to drop when are albums dropped when all the songs are like released or when the first song of the album is released I don't know how to answer that Ana England asks where are some stereotypes that female INTPs are labeled with that you yourself don't fit let me do a quick research to see where are the labels because I don't know where are the labels out of all the introverts INTPs are the most likely to get married okay one of the labels is like we don't care about hair, makeup and looks like we look very messy that we don't put special care on those things right I don't fit in but I do at the same time because I don't care at all it's clearly not a priority it's clearly not something I would die for I have a lot of things before that sometimes I get so focused on what I'm doing sometimes I get so invested in something that I completely forget everything but it's not just that I forget about makeup and hair I forget about sleeping, about eating all those things that are so connected with reality are just abandoned which is a terrible thing to do by the way sometimes I really like wearing makeup I really do even though it's the label that we have sometimes I really like to play with colors and shapes and to look like certain characters more than just improving the way I look what I like to do is looking in a specific way just like a character of a movie I just watched or something like that I really like doing those things am I speaking in a very weird way? I feel like I'm talking like that Manuel how much time do you need for one video? I need two days for scripting two days for recording one day for INTP and the other day for the rest of characters and also the days are not very long yet because it's still spring I really like using daylight so I just have a gap where I can record between lunchtime and 5 or 6 pm so yeah I need to split recording into two days and the other two days are for editing and the last day I upload so I need a week oh and then the next day I need to make subtitles I make subtitles in English and in Spanish and I upload things on Instagram and Facebook to promote the video now that I think about it it's more than a week for one video how does your family feel about your YouTube? oh they are very supportive they are very happy and very proud my mom supports me a lot my sister supports me a lot too my grandparents are always asking me to watch my videos ok Amina do you have a courier's love for a specific food combination that most people don't understand about? no I don't I like rice and lemon but people understand that it's very understandable I like chili things though like very spicy when did you realize you were different? and how has that been affecting your behavior or self esteem throughout the various stages of your life? you know I have trouble talking about myself as different I don't feel very comfortable saying oh yes look at me I'm different because I think I have met enough people in my life to say that they were all different from each other so I don't know how to start this answer but definitely the fact that I I was just not moving at the same speed I was not in the same wavelength than other people around me made me feel very slow not smart enough because I was not capable of understanding this emotional intelligence that is required to do certain things to interact with friends to interact with strangers I was just why am I so against doing those things I just didn't feel like having fun the way other people were having fun but I think we all struggle with different preferences I think a bigger universe of subjects to make a better conclusion about being different Gabrielle asks are you a psychologist? if not would you like to become one? I actually consider being a psychologist after I graduated from high school a lot of career paths I actually started with architecture I was going to be an architect and I gave up after one month and a half I didn't like it I wanted to be an astronomer that was like my dream career is Patricia single? Patricia is always single she is a single queen Isgarden asks if you could be any other type which one would it be? oh my god you know the last weeks or even months an ENTJ yes that's the other type I would be I think it's part of being my shadow functions I think I want to be the opposite and I try to trigger sometimes those functions when it comes to working and to making decisions I try to summon those functions and see how I can play with functions you know I think we part of understanding cognitive functions I think is that it gives us the possibility of understanding those functions so well that we can play with them and be aware of them be aware of when it triggers like for example in INTP when it's triggered the most and how it is so hard for us to use FI Beppi Niu asks are you planning on becoming a cyborg? of course I am planning on becoming a cyborg yes I think the human form has a lot of limits and we are framed in this mortal body yes I'm planning on becoming a cyborg but first there are a lot of things I need to do but yes you're correct Alex Mo asks do you think the INTPs would dominate the world if they wanted? absolutely especially together do you often try to figure out the type of the people you know? yes maybe a little bit too much when is your birthday what is your Howard's house and your top 5 favorite books can it be like top 3 because I already have these 3 books in front of me that I brought for this because I thought they were 3 and not 5 when is my birthday? May 19th what is your Howard's house? I would say Ravenclaw but I really like Slytherin and my top 5 favorite books ok let's say 3 first one by Isabel Allende it's called El cuaderno de Maya Maya's notebook I read this many years ago when I started college and it had a huge impact because this girl she's probably an ISFP if not an INTJ this is the first time I'm actually typing this girl because I didn't know about MBTI back then when I read it it was a gift and it really meant a lot because this girl likes being alone and she travels from the US to Chile to an island called Chiloé and Chiloé is a beautiful beautiful place in here very magical it meant a lot, I related a lot to the main character Maya Vidal, she's 19 years old yeah I really recommend it next one El Sicoanalista the analyst by John Katzenbach or how I call him I actually read it twice because it has an amazing plot twist it gave me the idea of change you know, change is a very powerful word for me ENTPs maybe relate to this more but change is a very why deserve a mosquito? change, I don't want to spoil the change that happens in this book is amazing and I always admire changing I always like it when characters and people change and I like changing too and I think we're constantly changing it's part of us both in journey to become someone else to be better to accept those inner changes that we suffer inevitably the analyst by John Katzenbach and the librarian and the robbers yeah I read this this was probably the first book I read it's even painted there I liked it so much and look at the picture it's a book for kids but you know what, it's very interesting it's really good why? do you want me to be deep? this is actually very deep, okay? such a good book okay Nina, you made a lot of questions, I'm not gonna answer them all because I think I already answered some of them do you like spending time outside in nature? yes I do but I haven't done it in a while because I like being in my room and as I said in my last video I haven't done outdoors outdoorsy things in a while thank you for the word outdoorsy Winnie and talking about Winnie, oh my gosh okay, break very fun break I just called my mom because she wants to see these too but I have a surprise package this was sent by my friend Winnie from Germany to celebrate the 10,000 subscribers and I don't know what it is okay I will open it unboxing time and it's purple yes do you have a YouTube app? okay my mom was here so I was acting weird this present was sent by Winnie, my friend I'm gonna put his Instagram so you check his work he's a very talented person in general talented and this is the first the first thing I receive as a recognition to the YouTube path and it's purple and I like purple I'm sorry Octy, it has YouTube you know I was like last year I was working out because I'm a very fit person I was working out I was running and I was listening to music and I was trying to run every day serious story I was really trying now I'm not by the way but I was and back then I didn't have any channel but I had the dream of having a channel and I was like could I do something on YouTube until I have a thousand subscribers could I have a thousand subscribers eventually how difficult is that you know I never realized that I had ten thousand subscribers until now until now that I see this I'm not a person who is very aware of the present or of the past I just see like I have to do more things for the future so this really helps me like stop and look around like whoa and you see I love this picture so much I love this picture with my cat and the Aquebex these are tentacles with eyes I really like tentacles by the way and that is Anelie the puppet and I have french fries because I like french fries and that's the ENTP time traveling outfit and a stapler because that's my weapon I don't know if I can answer more questions now I will answer one more question I will choose a random one Nina you're gonna be the one I will answer to because Nina I am your legal guardian on internet I know you're an army right if so who's your bias I like J-Hope he's my bias do you like zodiac astrology and what's your sign I do like zodiac astrology and my sign is Taurus but I'm a cusp because in Gemini I really like elements that's why I like zodiac in the first place you know because I like elements and the balance of them and I like avatar okay Amina Binzada asks is it social anxiety or being an INTP that makes us socially awkward you know what I've never been diagnosed with social anxiety but I think I do have social anxiety it makes a lot of sense maybe it's not an advantage in this world but I think we still can manage to make the best out of our introverted thinking function I still think we can make the best out of our cognitive functions and even though social anxiety is not a good a positive thing to deal with maybe it gives us other things you know other talents other skills in my case well I don't live my house much I don't go out as much as I would like to I struggle with making plans with friends I struggle with leaving my house I struggle with taking the bus I struggle with the city with the mall with buying things with approaching people with approaching strangers for directions I get lost I if I don't find a place I give up and I want to go home but I think that it gave me a different perspective it gave me the chance of thinking more of making and building a world that I could actually live in I have these dreams that's very science fiction dreams and I think INFPs do too we have inner worlds and that's the beauty of dealing with things as social anxiety and being an ITP always the chance of and doing something with that inner world we have I became so emotional okay I'm going to live this Q&A video here because it became a bit too intense for my preference thank you so much for watching this video and thank you so much for this it means so much to me it's going to be in the background of my videos for a while it's beautiful it's really beautiful and I'm not saying it because I am in the picture okay wait this seems familiar I painted that congratulations for 10,000 subscribers my cat is fighting okay guys I hope if you have any more questions I will answer them in the future probably in 6 months or plus have a good day and see you guys in the next video it's going to be a 16 personality types kind of video and it's going to be my best creation so far okay I'm very excited I wasn't this excited until I saw this okay so leave me alone goodbye


all your cracker barrel favorites, like our crispy southern fried chicken. I think I'm ready, baby. Good morning, everybody. Morning, good morning. Bronwyn, good morning. Alrighty, let's see. All right, so we have Mike DeConsmission Inspiration to work on this morning. I'm going to just read it again while we're waiting. Of course, I'm going to take some of it, but I'm not going to take all of it. Good morning, Laura. Magnificent machines. You know, do I have? I have gears, a gear stencil. That would be the question. I picked something else out, but I could draw a gear or a machine on before for his missions. So that's the thing. I think, yeah, we're going to just play it by ear and work with what I pulled and we'll see what happens. Good morning. Thank you for letting the ads run. If you all haven't heard lately or watched my vlog or one of the many others reporting on it in our little world of YouTube, we've had the freaking frugal channel, which has had a crisis. 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So if that's the only thing that you can do, do that and put a nice comment maybe. Yeah. Yeah, mine does too, Kathy, to both of them. I don't want to start the broadcast off on a bad note, but there you have it. Anyway, we're all struggling emotionally or something right now, so. All right, we are going to do the mission inspiration to get back to the subject of art. Our ingredients are a handwritten text, frame or border, fabric scraps, metallic paints and book text. The only thing on that list I was kind of worried about is metallic paints, because I don't have a lot. I'm not a huge metallic spam. Colors are ruby, not sorry, berry red, cerulean blue and copper. I may do with what I have and I pulled a few colors, so we'll see what happens. Good morning, Linda. And then the main inspiration says magnificent machines, cogs, gears, pistons, engines, levers and gadgets. I pulled a different icon, but now I'm getting kind of an idea of something I can do in the background, so we'll see what happens. So that's what we have today. I don't know what Mike did on the page for himself, because I didn't watch his video yet. Fun fact. I wanted to do my page first. I didn't want to be unduly influenced. Good morning, good morning, good morning. You know, I was heading to reading glasses on to read the mission inspiration and then took them off to cut this out. That makes no sense. That actually makes no sense. Yeah, this is the journal. Fun fact, whose paper I dislike working on. So we are going to, as we have been doing, see I did gears here, I did a gears page already last year, but I have an idea. So anyway, we're going to fast forward to here. So the last one that I did. Let's put a clip to hold this open. Otherwise, it's going to just make me completely crazy. The first thing we're going to do is glue our mission over here on the side, which is what I have always been doing. I don't know why I started doing that exactly, but you know, we're going to just go with it now. How are you all? I hope you're coping and managing and doing well. I need a card. I need a card. Okay. There we go. All right. Now I have one of Mike Deacon's stencils here. This is his son's stencil. I was going to pull one of my own and then, I don't know, I just, this one just stood out to me this morning. So we're going to go with it. I think what I'm going to do first is get the basic shape of this sun, the size of the circle on here. If my pen wants to write this morning, do you want to write? Maybe. There we go. I just want kind of like that because then do I have something that's about that size? Yes, I do. Maybe. I should be doing this in pencil, but I'm not going to. So I'm going to, I think draw a gear that's just slightly bigger. Now, if you have been following me for a while, then you know very well, I am not too concerned about extra lines on my work. I think they just make it interesting. The extra lines are marks. And I almost always do things in pen. I rarely do things in pencil that I need to erase later. To be honest with you, I just can't be bothered. I'm lazy. I'm not the frugal crafter. That's Lindsey Weirich. I'm the lazy messy crafter. So there you have it. Let's make this look here. Like, I don't know if this is going to turn out. I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this, but I don't know. We'll see. I do think I'm going to need a Sharpie at some point, which is behind the iPad. Of course it is. Of course it is. Now, if you're like me and a lot of artists, mixed media artists and crafters, I know we have lots of book texts and handwritten notes around. It gets to the point where it's hard to throw anything away because you're just sure you can do something with it at some point. So then we have a basic gear shape. Ah, Bronwyn. My sister lives in Cottonwood Heights if you know where that's at. Okay, so I've got this old ledger page that has handwritten stuff on it. So I'm going to, what is it saying on here? Oh, different people that were paying for services. Three dollars. Friday, February 13th. I don't know what year. It's a physician's ledger. OC. I don't know. I don't know what that stands for. Yeah, I love the parks in Utah, Cathy, and also Nevada. Red Rock Canyon is a favorite of mine. And my week's going okay. I mean, you know, we all can relate. It isn't horrible. Thank goodness. Okay, so this was just a guide about where I want my basic shape to be. So now we're going to get our other stuff on there. Collage my papers down first. I'm just using a Yoohoo glue stick. It's quick. It's easy. It's not super messy. And then I have a couple of books that literally are so old the pages are falling out. And this one, I don't know what the name of the book is. But one side of the paper says standardized systems, three kinds of space. And the other one says outline of philosophy, the romance of rationalism. I don't know. It's just cool old paper. Let's see. I'm just reading back on the comments. Montreal, Canada, I see. Yeah, I can't wait to get back to Utah not only to do some touring of the countryside, but to visit my sister. She goes hiking a lot up in the mountains somewhere in the snow. And I don't know Utah that well. But I would love to go hiking with her. It looks so pretty up there. Just making sure that, oops, the paper is not lifting. So fabric scraps. I'm using what I am inspired to use at the moment. But one of his things is fabric scraps. I do not know what I'm going to do with that. So out there in the universe right now, I have no idea. Now I think it's time to do a little stenciling and get the paint colors involved. I've got, of course, some gouache paints and one metallic paint. And then my parents used to live in Grant's Pass. Fun fact. I like Grant's Pass. Anyway, as I was saying, one of his colors is copper. So of course, he had metallic. So I picked a copper metallic paint, but I also was kind of looking through my matte acrylics and my gouache acrylics. If I had something that was maybe coppery colored sort of, but not metallic. The closest thing I could find was the yellow oxide, which I think will work. And I kind of want to incorporate. So we're going to put some of that out. And then, of course, I have the copper metallic.  Now I don't really have the exact color of blue, cerulean blue in my gouache colors. I have a primary cyan and navy. I kind of think a little bit of a mix of the two might work. Although I do think the cyan is probably closer to cerulean, but I just think I should mix the two of them up a little bit. So we'll do that. And then I have two reds, a rose violet, which I think that's closer to a berry color. And then this one, which is primary magenta, but I think it's too pale. Oh, rogue river is gorgeous. I think we're going to go with the darker one, which is rose violet. These are all acrylic gouache or matte acrylics except for the metallic. All right. Now let's get this on here. This is his sun stencil. I designed my own stencils, but fun fact, I'm terrible with stencils. I put too much paint. So I think I'm going to grab a little bit of the yellow, the yellow oxide. And I'm going to just, I'm going to do the pouncing thing because again, I know, I know me. I know me only too well. I have this bad tendency to go at the stencils like a gorilla and put too much paint. I've already got some spots that I need to fix. Of course I do. I'm going to not clean my brush off and bring in some white, just holding the stencil down and kind of blending the colors through the stencil while the paint is still wet. Any parts of the image that I don't get quite right, we can go back and fix with a little bit of touch up paint. We still have to, again, we still have to incorporate the fabric scraps, which I don't, I'm going to do that. I'm not sure. I love his missions this year because it's kind of making us all take a second look at our supplies and which is something I've been trying to do anyway. You know, you get in a rut with your art and it's so easy to do. You just grab the same old couple of things all the time. This is making you rethink that a little bit. And all of the projects that I'm doing this year seem to be along that same idea, even ones y'all don't know about yet. By the way, if you haven't heard, I'm teaching a class with Bea Grob, Shell C, Peg Robinson, Petra Fuchs, Marie Linder, and the early bird money for, the early bird price for that goes out soon. Yeah, that'll work. Um, yeah, Kathy, I should be doing the makeup sponge trick. I definitely should be. You're not wrong. And it's not like there's sponges that are like far away from me. There's one right here. But this will work. This is fine. We need to try that now. Let's see before I do anything else. Get a smaller brush. This one. I should zoom in for you all. Let's see if I can do this without messing up. Good morning, Petra. Yeah, and I, yeah, I definitely know about the makeup sponge thing. I'm just impatient, that's all. So now I'm just gonna try to go around my son and define my shape. Maybe and see, I'm looking at it and I don't mind the gear shape that's in the background, but I'm just not feeling it. See, and I shouldn't make myself try to have it back there. I'm not going to try to cover it up necessarily. It's back there, but I don't think it's going to be my primary focus. Kathy, I appreciate the help. At our old house, I did a lot of stenciling when we bought the house on the walls. I do know the right way to stencil, but I'm just lazy. I didn't grab a rag. How did I not grab a rag? I should have probably painted that gear before I put the sun on. But then I think it would detract from the sun. I wonder if I just do that. Let's do a few of the shapes in the background that show through the sun in some of the blue and then see what we think. The black will still be there, but it'll be faded into the background and look like it's obviously behind the sun. And I actually think I kind of love that. Yeah, I do too. So I'm using a very small round brush with just a little bit of paint.  There are some that are under the paper that I collaged on that I can't see. We'll do those last. Oh, Kathy.  Yeah, you all know. I don't need to finish the sentence, do I? Just when you can't remember words, much less other stuff. The stress is real. The forgetfulness is real. See, I do kind of like the way that's turning out now. I need parts of the sun that I mess up. I can always go back over it with the stencil again and line it up and put some more paint on there. So I'm not super worried. And this is usually the kind of... When I'm outlining a painting like this, it's usually the kind of thing I do with the music on. Just turn on the radio. Of course, you could do it with a pen rather than doing it with a paint brush and paint. But just turn the radio on and to mute some music, some happy music that you like and let go of all the other craziness that's going on. Yeah, I forget. I was having a conversation with some of you all one day. And then my husband later, and I couldn't remember the word buffering. It literally, I think, took me two days to remember the word. And it's not because there's any mental health issues going on other than what I already had pre-COVID. But it's just stress. My sister moved to Utah years ago because of a guy she was married to. That marriage didn't last, but she loves Utah and she ended up staying by my brush off. I'm going to take more of the yellow ochre, but straight, tap some of it off, touch up a few things. I think some of it's too light, just a little bit of a white. I had a good sort of mental health day yesterday because I was just able to just paint. Just paint. I just let things go and I didn't even turn music on or anything and I just painted and it was fabulous. How am I going to incorporate fabric into that? I have no idea. I do have a big thing of fabric scraps. I don't know. Let's dry it because I do like the way that looks. I'm going to just dry it. Yes, Petra, I did that before COVID. COVID hasn't helped walking into a room for a particular purpose and then not remembering what the purpose is when you get there. Yeah. Yeah. Meaning to write things down on the grocery shopping list and you get down to the list to write it down and then you forget what it was. If you guys are feeling any and all of that, you are so not alone. It's happening to a lot of us right now and all I can say to you is just remember to breathe. I know it's not always super helpful, but when it grabs some white pencils, let's see. This is a white pencil I bought a while ago at Jerry's Arterama and they have these fat jumbo white pencils in different colors. I was just going to get black and I ended up getting this jumbo white. I actually really love this pencil lately. I've used it on a couple of things and I can just go in kind of here where I got too messy with the paint. I'm not covering it up necessarily, but I'm just kind of adding some white over it and it's making it less obvious and maybe making it look like it was intentional. Yeah. I was always a person who made myself a lot of notes before. That hasn't gotten any better. So I've added sort of this matte yellow color, but I haven't added any copper-copper. So I do have copper metallic paint here that I pulled out. So let's grab our thin brush and this is a plaid folk art one stroke number one liner brush.  So there's some dots around the stencil. So I'm going to highlight the dots with some copper paint. I will post pictures of this later on social media, like to my Instagram and Facebook. If you aren't following me on those, there's a link tree list of links in the video description. I post art all the time every day and this is again, this is a Liquitex basic metallic. I'm not a huge metallics fan, not because I don't think they're pretty. I do. I just find that I don't use them that much. Probably because a lot of my work gets photographed or scanned. And fun fact, your metallic paints don't do either of those very well. If you're going to create something for reproduction, having metallic paints as part of the composition makes it very difficult. Yeah, I make myself a lot of notes. I have for a long time. So for those that don't know, I have anxiety disorder and when it gets bad, I get forgetful. And so I make myself a lot of notes and that eliminates the stress of, oh my God, I'm going to forget that. At least in my world, it does. In my brain, it does. I think it does anyways. There's all kinds of ways you can cope with the stress and the forgetfulness. Having people to talk to you and do art with, I do want to do like an arty party. I have some free time, I think, coming up towards the end of the month. So I think I'm going to try to do that, schedule something. It won't be on camera. It'll probably just be a Zoom call with art people, friends and patrons. So if you want to be part of that, let me know. We'll be just, you know, make art and talk about life and stuff. I mean, things. I hope you're all doing well and coping well and that you're managing okay and that you have people to talk to when things aren't, are too much. And I'm not looking at the chat right now because I'm decided to put copper on all the sun rays. So just FYI. If you're asking me a question, that's why I haven't answered yet. You can barely see this. So I'm not sure why I decided to do this, but now I decided to do it. Now I've got to do all of them. Any leftover paint I have, I don't waste it. I grab a old book or a pad of paper and put it in there or create a, start a background in a new journal or something. Try not to stick my hand in the wet paint, which is always a challenge because my middle name is not Grace. I've kept up my, my challenge to myself of 10,000 or more steps a day, most days since the end of January. I have upped my daily step count from about four, well between 41 and like 44,000 a week. Now it's an excess of 60,000 a week, which is wonderful. See, I don't know if you guys are going to see this on camera. Hey Michael Ann. Okay. So I don't know if you're going to see this on camera. I'm going to try to tilt it this way. Can you see the metallic on there? You'll have to tell me. I'm not sure you're going to see it. Okay. So one of the things I'm going to do is I'm going to take, I have a smaller one than this. I do, I do, I do. Okay. We're going to take a little tiny blending brush, this little, this is one of these little tiny short, flat, like stiff bristled. I always have some of these around because I use them for like blending paints and things and backgrounds. One of the things we're going to do is we are going, I'm not going to hide it completely, but I want to put a little bit of paint here, white, just white. I want to push some of this paper into the background. If I can, it's not wanting to stick where the, I think the glue is because I don't think the glue is completely dry. We have to go back to the little tiny brush. Yeah, I will try to post a picture later. I was pretty sure you weren't going to be able to see much in the way of the metallic on camera because I think it's, again, metallics don't do cameras very well. That's the bottom line, but I will try to get a good picture later for you all because I think you're going to enjoy. I think you'll like it. I'll see if I can, at least I'll try to get a good picture on. I know we'll see. I'm up near Portland and we don't have too many days where it's not cloudy, so not this time of year anyways. It's so funny. I went when I was out yesterday. I went to go buy a sleep mask because I want to do a blindfolded art challenge. I haven't done one in a while and I couldn't find my old sleep mask. I might have purged it before we moved. I don't remember. Anyway, the lady at the store thought I was buying it because spring is coming in. We're going to get that obnoxious northern spring light that just blinds you and you can't sleep. It was funny. I didn't want to explain to her. I just told her, oh, thank you very much. Oh, you'll have a good night's sleep now. Yes, I will. Thank you so much. All right. I'm kind of liking that. We're going to just let it dry naturally for a minute. I need to figure out what I'm going to do with fabric and I need to find a piece of fabric to figure out what I'm going to do with that. So I have no idea how to incorporate fabric into this except for maybe there's a thing on here about doing a border.  What do you all think? This is just my scrap bin from slow stitching. Like all the scraps just get jammed in here until I either put them away proper or do something else with them. We'll have this fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. That's interesting. I don't know that it goes with the sun, but it's interesting. I do need to add a quote because I always add a quote. What do you all think about all of these? I mean, I have orangey colors, but I think that just detracts from the sun too much and he's kind of cute. So I don't want to do that. We want to add to the piece without detracting from it. Let's see. Do I have a piece of canvas here? If I made sort of a canvassy tag that I could then add to as maybe a flap, that might work. Yeah, I don't mind the cold cloudy weather. My asthma is happy with it. So there's that. For the most part. I mean, now that we have the wildfires, I'm back on a daily inhaler. So there's that. I can't say we'll never move again because you just never know what the future holds, but Bob and I don't move often. We just, that's just not what we are, not those first people that move all the time. I think I want to stick with those colors. Maybe. And what if we took this piece of canvas? I'm just not sure. Oh, Petra, put that in the friends chat over on Facebook because I'm always looking for new channels to watch. See, I'm not sure. I'm just not sure about covering up that much of a page with this.  Or even go wild and crazy and put it here. I could actually, there's enough of it. I probably could put it on each side. Yeah, I, yeah. So first to address Kathy's comment. I never understood why my parents who one is born in Chicago and one is born in San Francisco. My parents are born and raised city people. But as they got older and older, they moved farther out into the country. And I for years have not understood what they're thinking was behind that until we moved. And compared to where we used to live, where I live outside of Portland right now is definitely what you would call more, way more country.  So I get it now. And if we did move again, it would probably be close to services like medical, but definitely not in the city, city proper again. I just don't think I can do that. I'm kind of liking this. Yeah, I kind of like that. Do I, I did pull a rubber stamp out, but I don't know. I don't know if I want to use it. It does have a border on it, but I don't know that I want to use it. So I think that's going to get set aside. That's not going to get used because I don't, the way this has turned out, I don't think I want to put that back before we glue anything down or staple that trim down. Let's look for a quote that maybe fits. Actually, I guess before we do that, we should do something with this extra paint here. Have this dollar store drawing book we were working in last time. And just grab a palette knife and or the brushes I already have out. And let's just go to a paint blank page, grab the palette. That's too big. That palette knife is not going to work. What was that thinking? We'll just use this brush. And yeah, Petra. So I mean, sorry, Michael and yeah, the fires, I was off my daily inhaler because my asthma was very much under control. And then we had all the wildfires here on the West Coast. And it just, yeah, I definitely went backwards. I mean, my goal is to be healthier and get off some medication. I just don't know if that's like really a practical right now. I can tell in the mornings when I haven't, you know, gotten up right away and taken my medicine. I can tell when I need to. So that was the extra paint that was there. And that's an interesting background and start to something else, a tag, another journal page or something. So that can just be set aside to dry. Now let's go back to the words. This is my sort of folio of words. Oops.  It's just off camera to the left. And I'm going to have it where I can see it. Let's go through these words first and see if there's anything in here that just quickly stands out that I think might work. Ooh, right away. This one does. That didn't take very long. Holy cow. Okay. So before I go over that, so I have some words that I've printed or punched. I do have a letter punch. And I have printable files in my Etsy shop of words. And so I've printed them on label paper. I've also printed them on fabric that's intended for running through your printer. You can get inkjet printer fabric from Amazon. Right? This is a good quote. I also cut them out from magazines. I know I post those tea bag quotes and fortune cookie things all the time, just so you know. No, I don't throw them away. These are purchased word cards, letter cards, quote paper, some letter stickers from like my Moleskine journals, Tim Holtz chat stickers, big chat, little chat, and random other letter and word stickers. I do love my words. Okay. So this is Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I think that's a great quote for this page. I think I'm really liking the way this trim looks on here. Now the question is how do I want to attach it? So this is the quote. Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself. The quote storage thing is created from clear pencil pouches from the Dollar Tree. And then I have a number of them and they're connected with these cable binder ring things. So you could connect them, you could put them in a binder, you could use just loose binder rings. I have one, two, three, four. I have seven of them together. For me, that was a number that worked really well. I've been using this quote storage thing for a long time now like almost since right after we moved and it's worked fabulously. As soon as I was able to start getting the art room together after we moved, this undoing the old quote storage, which was in a set of little drawers, which wasn't working for me in the new space at all and putting them in here was a huge difference and I use them constantly now. Old eyes. Don't get me started, Kathy. I'm officially old now. I have mild cataracts in both eyes, along with a floater in the right eye. So oh, fun times. Yeah, I agree. So I'm going to put a little bit of glue on it. Fabric trim. Wow, that didn't want to come off. But I'm also going to put staples. Now, let's try to glue it right side up, shall we? Glasses, speaking of glasses. Oh, yeah. I think one of you all sent me this trim. It could have been Antbeck's creations. I don't remember because she did send me an envelope of stuff that I've been using and enjoying. If you're in Mike Deacon's Facebook group, Mission Inspiration, then I will be posting pictures of this in his group later today. I haven't watched his video on the mission yet. I will be doing that also later today. But if you're not in his group and you would like to be, it's a fun group, I think. Of course I have no staples. Every time I go to use this thing. Okay, so the floater? No, not right now. It's not. I go back in a month to just kind of keep an eye on things. I also was born with, oh, how do I say this? Weird optic nerves. So, and this is a new doctor. So she wants some baseline tests. So I go back in a month. My mother's also a diabetic glaucoma sufferer. So we're keeping an eye on me for that. That can be hereditary. So anyway, got some issues. I was born needing corrective lenses. I was legally blind without glasses up until I had Lasik a few years ago. The floaters probably won't go away, go away. They may get less noticeable. But anyway, I took a fall late September, early October and I hit my head on the concrete. And then after that I started noticing a floater. And so there is one in there. It's pretty large. There's really nothing they can do about it. It may go away on its own. It may not. And it just kind of is what it is. And I have to learn to live with it. It's annoying sometimes, but I can deal with it. It's fine. And the cataracts at some point, you know, they'll need surgery at some point. I'm not going to stop creating. If I have to, I'll rename my channel the blind artist and we'll just do things that way. Because I'm not going to stop. I do like to read books, but you know, that's what Audible's for. But I do have a really nice new doctor. She's really nice, sweet.  So she's doing a bunch.  Everything looks fine and, you know, normal as can be expected. My inner ocular pressure hasn't changed. It's the same as it was when I had my Lasik surgery done in 2008. So she's going to do some peripheral vision tests and things like that. They didn't have time for when I was there last time. I like this page. I don't know what that is about that page. So anyway, the floater is most of the time it's, you know, doesn't bother me. Every now and then it just seems to be like right in the middle of my face. And it just is like there constantly and drives me completely crazy. Most of the time it's fine. I'll wait to put that away because it's going to be a problem. All right. So that's that page. We have time to do something else. Yeah, I really like that. I wish you guys could see the metallic on there, but I don't know if you can. But just a little bit of copper. So this is a great page. Take that over here. I always have other journals. So let's grab one of these. Oh, good. I'm glad. Yeah. So yeah, that was my adventures with the eye doctor. So it could be a lot of things. What I would say though is just, you know, I know at times they're tough right now and I know we're all completely stressed out. And the last thing you want to do is go to the doctor. But don't put off your health and well-being just because of COVID.  You should be going once a year at the most every two years, especially as we get older. Cataracts are very common and very fixable. So they're not necessarily a huge deal.  Just looking to see if there's something in here I want to use in this journal. But yeah, so the cataracts don't really bother me. The floater doesn't bother me. I've had floaters on and off in the past before. This one is because of an injury. She did lecture me because I should have probably gone in right after I fell because I did hit my head on the concrete. And that can cause some serious issues with lots of things, including your vision.  And, you know, she said it seems to be stable, but that was another reason why she wants me to go in a month, in a month and just make sure nothing looks like it changed. But I do have new glasses on order and my vision with them is 2020.  Wait till you all see them. They're funny. They're just going to be funny.  I hope I think they're hilarious. I don't know if any of these are standing out to me at the moment. Maybe this one. Yeah, we do have vision service plans. So it wasn't, you know, like it caught maybe this one actually. I guess I should leave that open so things don't dry and get glued together. There was another piece of plastic in here. Where'd it go? I don't know. But you know, as we get older, cataracts are super common. And, you know, they're not necessarily something to be worried about. Yeah, that works.  So I couldn't just go to Costco. I knew I was going to probably see need to see an ophthalmologist because the floater was really an issue. And, you know, again, I was born with kind of strange optic nerves, which of course they want to look at because she's a new doctor.  It's like when they hear my heart at the doctor when I have any doctor and then they want to do all sorts of cardiac tests because I was born with a cardiac issue too. Yeah, so you can have very mild cataracts. I am no doctor. Let me start this off. I was a licensed dispensing optician, but that was almost 30 years ago. And you should always get advice from a healthcare professional that knows what they're talking about. Right, Laura? Anyway, cataracts can be very slow growing and you can have a mild cataract for years and years and years before they're bad enough to impede your vision to where you need to have surgery. The joke with Bob and I right now is that his, so his mother is deaf. Just so you know, almost completely deaf. My parents have terrible eyesight. And as we both get older, we're both susceptible to cataracts. And my dad also has hearing issues, but it's from an accident anyway. Our joke at night when we're walking is, okay, is it hazy because it's foggy or because we both have cataracts. And then he says, dear, did you hear that? And I'm like, no, what? Like, so are are we both just not hearing things well? Are we both not seeing well? Like we give each other a hard time about it. Because what else are you going to do but get stressed? Like, it's better to have fun with it, I think. Because I think I want, if I'm going to do this, I want a couple of other colors. That's the color I want. This one. So just have fun with it.  But, you know, at the same time. Yeah, so we just, you know, we've decided to have fun with it. We give each other a hard time.  Oh, okay. So this page kind of had some red leakage through from the other side, which is fine. I'm not going to try to cover it all up, but I don't want it to be as obvious, I don't think. And I'm just using this like silicone squeegee thing. That's way too much of that orange, but okay. I'm using matte acrylic and matte gouache paints because then you don't have to worry about your art journal's pages sticking together. And they're less likely to be sticky. And for you to have to worry about covering them up with clear gesso or a matte finish of some kind or wax or something. Let's get the dryer out. I love these colors. They're not colors I would normally put together, but I love them because of the class that I'm teaching in June with Bay of Robb and the others. I've been working more with color, which is bringing out kind of the experimental side of me because that works and it's handy. And I don't have to reach out and grab for something else because hello, lazy crafter. Ooh, I also, you guys should watch the vlog next week because I will be filming the before and after, but Thursday I finally get my haircut after a year. And I'm getting kind of a lot cut off. So thank you, Kathy. And yes, Bronwyn, it's just so important to have a sense of humor and things aren't always going to be something that you can laugh about, but you have to have a trusted group around you that you can laugh with, cry with. This is just a random folder of small bits. If I have small bits, I don't want to throw away, but I don't know what I'm going to do with. I literally, I just stick them in here like it looks like this. It's just literally just full of stuff. I'm going to just pull out a few things that are the right colors.  And everybody's having such a hard time. It's not just me and it's, you know, it's just tough. I don't know if those will work, but we'll pull them out and take a look at them. So I was going through old optical files and this shows you I used to be a licensed optician in a lab tech because I found these. So these are the pattern shapes they put on the machine to tell the machine what shape to cut your eyeglass lenses. I did, and these are some old lenses, I think from my dad's old glasses. I didn't even know I had those. And of course I saved them because I don't know what I want to do with them. You know, they might be good for something. I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy. I'm aware. I'm aware. So I have that one too. There's some birds and things down here. Look at that. Also on my little angel from my stamp set, but her worst or other wing. Oh, there it is. Her other wing came off. Yeah. And you know what? If you don't, if you're having trouble maintaining the good attitude and the smile and the positivity, I can so relate to that.  Find again, find some people that you can trust to talk to, to vent to, you know, if you feel like you're on that, you know, sort of cliff's edge that can talk you down, all of those things.  Well, that's a good idea, Michael Ann. That's a good idea. Okay, so we have all these pieces that I found. That's a little watercolor painting of mine. I'm wondering what if, I mean, she would be cute to use on there, but she doesn't really fit.  And she's, I have a stamp set that has all these different parts in it. It's in my Etsy shop. And she's so cute. And I want to use her on something, but I haven't figured out what that something is yet. So she's still living in the envelope. I even up until recently, Michael Ann had a piece of an old flip flop because the bottom of the flip flops had such an interesting pattern on them that I saved it to do something with. I kind of like where this is going. I don't know what that says exactly, but I like where it's going. Yeah, normal C. I don't know what normal C is. I have no idea what I've lost track. So these are magazine pages and you lay them over the top of the stencil and then you take some sandpaper and you just sand away basically, it'll sand away the lines of the stencil. It will leave you with this textured, the darker the page, the better usually. And you end up with this is just magazine paper and a stencil and sandpaper. I'm thinking of using some of this one maybe. I don't think the pink works. The pink doesn't work. What is in here? I've lost track. Somebody sent me this. Oh, it looks like a little journal. BB creations. Oh, darling, I keep forgetting this is in the little envelope. Yeah, it's a little mini journal. Okay, we're going to just have to make this like a video at some point. I'm going to just have to fill this up with like mini collages or something. That's cute. I keep forgetting it's in there. The effect is very awesome and it makes a great, you know, again, great papers for texture for your collages. And this is like, this is something that's in the small bits. These are Tim Holtz ideology wings. This is just a pack of transparent wings that I got not too long ago, but of course, haven't done anything with. What colors do we have in here? Not a monarch. A little blue one. Is there a littler one? There is a littler one. Ha. I can't wait to like do like museums or zoos or I'm with you on that one. I love to do all of those things. You know, I'm not the one who's the best at things like road trips and stuff like that. And I don't like camping. I don't like camping, but now I'm like telling my husband, maybe we should buy a camper. Just like, you know, just because you want to get out. So do you think these wings are like too dark? I have some clear ones. Maybe these clear ones are better. Oh, thank you, Kathy. Oh, you know, I know what this needs to say now. I just was putting those on there and I know exactly what I should say. Where's that one little dark blue and yellow one? These are hard to pick up. I have like no fingernails.  I want to drive up into Canada. I want to go over to Utah, see my sister, other family in other states, but we won't tell them I'm coming because I don't want to go there. That's all I'll say about that. But yeah, I want to visit my friends.  I wanted to go forever. Why? I'm not going to put it off anymore. I want to go and I want to sit and have coffee with my friends. I want to go hiking. I want to go shopping. I want to make art in the park. All of those things. You're welcome. Have a great day, Kathy. Okay, we're going to need a piece of white paper, which I have a piece here because I know what it needs to say. I'm going to have to write it out. We are going to get all this on here. I think we're going to use staples for some of it. I like the idea of adding staples to things. I just think it looks interesting. It just gives it one more sort of dimension of texture. I'm going to just put some tacky glue on the back of some of these wings. That should stick them down well enough. And then we can put this doily down with some glue, a glue stick. Yeah, I haven't been on a long road trip since I was 17. And my grandparents were still alive when we went on a road trip to most of the western United States. Unfortunately, we came home and a few months later, my grandfather passed away. But I really appreciate that we got to do that before he passed away. And I would like to do another road trip. Get this glued down. I might want to stick a staple through those. What's on the back side? Staples won't matter too much on the back side. Nope, can barely see them. Okay, let's do a staple here too. So this is an old Moleskine weekly notebook. By the way, I had to break the spine on it because it's getting to be way too fat. So sometimes I'm creating a page and I know exactly what it should say. So I just write it out, which I'm going to do. Oh, crud. How do you spell afraid? Does it have one F or two? I think it has two. Where's my phone? Oh, I hope it only has one. If you ever create a journal page and you spell a word wrong, it's okay. Been there, done that, posted it on YouTube and then figured out I spelled it wrong. You aren't alone. So I'm going to put on here. Don't be afraid to stand out. Never be afraid to stand out and be yourself. I want to put it up there. Glue takes a long time to dry. The little bit of metal in the staples just adds another like piece of texture and interest to your pages. And you know, it's quick and easy. It's like the glue stick. It's quick and easy. And then you get, you know, a journal page. I'm going to move this over a little bit because the stream yard thing is like in the way. Let's see. Whoops, that's too far. So yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with just sticking a staple in there. And on this side, on this page, you can barely see where the staples are. Like you really can't even tell they're there unless you look carefully. So anyway, I think that's it for today. Who else is with me where you kind of like, I like the way that looks like I just like the way that looks at the paint, the stencil with the paint on it. I may have to take a picture of that because that just looks really cool. Yeah, your pages don't have to be hard or complicated. They can express what your current mood is or not. That's up to you. But they should be enjoyable and you shouldn't have to think about them too much or agonize over them. They won't all turn out good. Some of them are going to just be very questionable at best. And you're going to just go, huh? Yeah, well, but you know, that's okay. You don't have to be crazy like me and show them on social media. Okay, wait, Laura, what do you mean you got deleted by Google? Michael and I'm just reading back a little bit in the comments and yeah, Coronavirus is creating wonderlust in a lot of people. Like I said, I'm not a big, I don't enjoy camping. I did it a lot as a kid, but it's not my thing. But now I'm thinking we need to rent a camper or buy a big SUV or something and just go on a long road trip. Thank you for the compliments on the page. Appreciate that one. Okay, afraid. Thank you. A comment got deleted. Okay, wow, I didn't delete it. Okay, that's weird. But Google's been weird. Anyway, if you're connected with me on social media and you're in one of the Facebook messaging chats, do check in and let me know how you're doing. I hope you're doing well. If you have questions, comments or concerns, you can leave them here down below or you can DM me on social media somewhere. You know, just know that you're not alone with the stress and the agony and the chaos.  Please do all of those. I understand more than most if you have issues with white coat syndrome and going to the doctor and assuming they're going to find stuff wrong and expecting the worst, hoping for the best. I understand all of those things. I suffer from all of those. Don't let it stop you from doing what you need to do to take care of yourself. I want y'all to be with me around here for a long time to come. So anyway, that being said, we are going to do this. We're going to do it together. We're going to make some art and we are going to make it work. 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Hi friends, Davido at Delikay, popularly known as OBO, has made a big comeback with an announcement of an album, Timeless. This is to say, the singer has finally decided to come out of the grieving room of a son. This great announcement was greeted by lots of jubilation from the fans of Davido. In his post on his verified social media account, he wrote, There is a time for everything, a time to grieve and a time to heal, a time to laugh and a time to dance, a time to speak and a time for silence. He went further to say, Thank you to everyone out there for your love and that has held me down. My next album, Timeless's Year, March 31st, he announced the pre-order for those that may want to pre-order the album. Of course, a lot of the fans of Davido will be jubilating right now to see that this guy has come out of his trauma strong and able to keep on entertaining his fans around the world, even in a better way. Welcome back Davido at Delikay.


10 exciting activities for the past simple. Grammar lessons can often be quite boring for students so it is important for us as TEFL teachers to have fun activities that encourage the students to use the target language creatively and foster high student talking time. Below is a list of 10 activities that can be used for lessons on the past simple. Matching pairs. The teacher creates a set of cards with present simple verbs and a set with the past simple form of the same verbs. The sets are mixed together and placed face down on the desk. Students take turns to turn over two cards. If the two cards match that is both forms of the same verb, the student has to make a sentence with the past simple form before they can keep the cards. If they cannot make a correct sentence, the cards are turn over and it is the next player's turn. The person with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner. Diary. Students write a diary entry about the previous day. They can then interview each other about their day. For example what was the best part of your day? Our maths teacher was absent so we had a free period. Telling stories. Students are provided with a set of cards. Each card has either a word or a picture on it. The students use the vocabulary and pictures on the cards to create a story using the past symbol and past continuous. Find someone who. Students interview each other to find out who did certain things on holiday, when they were young etc. After the interviews the students present their findings to the class. For example Maria went to the beach on her holiday. When I was young. This is a good activity for adult students. Students think about how things were different in the past and talk about things they did slash didn't do or had slash didn't have when they were young. For example when I was young we didn't have mobile phones. When I was young we walked to school every day. Memory games. Listing games where the students have to remember everything previous students have said and then add their own item to the list are a great way to practice the past simple. Start the activity by writing a starting phrase on the board. For example I went on holiday and I or I went to the shop and I bought the phrase then gets repeated around the room with students adding more to the list each time. This is best played with small classes. Irregular verb bingo. Students are given bingo cards with irregular past simple verbs. The teacher calls at the base form of a verb and the students have to say the past simple form before marking it on their card. As soon as a student has marked all the verbs on their card they shout bingo. What did you do? Students talk about the things they did at a certain period of time. For example this morning at the weekend on your holiday etc. What did you do on your holiday? I went camping with my friends. Past simple battleships. A good activity for practicing past simple of yes, no questions. Give students a six by six grid. Down the left side of the grid the start of past simple questions with different pronouns for example did I did she along the top will be six different endings to the questions for example play football eat a sandwich for lunch etc the students then have to place four ships two squares in length on their grid either horizontally or vertically students then ask each other the questions to try and find the battleships for example did she eat a sandwich for lunch if it is a hit the answer is yes she did if it is a miss the answer should be no she didn't good day bad day as a group the class brainstorms a list of things that can make a day good or bad then in pairs students ask each other about good and bad days they have had in the past to find what it was that made the day good or bad for example did you miss the bus no my car broke down and I had to walk to work then I fell in a ditch and lost one of my shoes are you ready to teach English abroad speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today


All right. Next up is me. I'm going to try and go pretty quickly because I would like to see Martin's demo more than I want to see my demo. All right. So let's start. Yeah. Here's what I did. I loaded a file over an IPFS gateway. Right. Cool. We can do this. So that's good. But what makes this different than other loading files over gateways? For those of you who are not fluent in multi-base and multi-formats, this guy over here indicates that we are using a format called BN code or BN code. And what we're doing is loading a BitTorrent info hash. So this is the way in which BitTorrent refers to files. And we were able to load it over a gateway. And in order to do this, so we're sort of doing the IPLD thing. IPLD, data model for interoperable protocols. We would like to have a single way of describing how it is that you build different, how you work with different hash link data structures. So you can sort of work with them together. BitTorrent is a hash link data structure. So we should be able to do that. This is what an info hash looks like. Again, we add support for the codec. Here it is interpreted as DAG JSON. It's got a length, a piece length. They use spaces. God knows why they use spaces. And then this, which is a set of hashes, a set of SHA-1 hashes for various pieces, which are the little file chunks that make up our Koala friend here. In order to do this, so we have the codec, which is this part, which goes in here. But then we also have to say, hey, this isn't a UnixFS file. This is a BitTorrent file. And we did that by passing in a selector, along with our parameter here, an IPLD selector, which you can read more about on the IPLD website. We can use our handy tooling to see what the selector looks like. And here is the selector represented as DAG JSON. It just says, I would like you to please interpret this thing as a BitTorrent file and then match and grab it for me. So that's what we did. Mostly just started by looking at the BitTorrent spec. Here's their encoding format. It's that simple. Here is their data format. It's also pretty simple. Just go and then go implement it in some code. The encoder and decoder just use existing B encoding libraries and the fact that they all kind of turn it to JSON maps. And then just reflect and turn it into IPLD things. The ADL, which is the logic that lets me say this is a, take this graph and represent it as a file, please. Has some boilerplate, but mostly is just sit there and follow the algorithm. How many pieces are there? How big are they? Let me take the keys and break them up into pieces. Then load them for me. All right. A couple of things. So what do we have? We have an ADL plugin and go IPFS that allows us to plug in ADL, like any ADLs. Right now we can only do codecs. Implemented to be encode codec and ADL for BitTorrent files. And this is sort of interesting. A patch for the gateway that will allow for rendering any IPLD node that presents as a file. And that code, it's basically, I run the selector. And if the thing I get out at the end of the day is bytes, you know what, bytes seems like a file. Let's just render it as a file. Maybe slightly controversial to do it the way that was done, but get this moving. All right, cool. So how do you, how do we merge this thing? How do you make this thing actually usable? We need another magic CSV file in addition to the ones we already have to track the names of new ADLs like this one. So people know what they are when they want to go implement them. We need selectors to be implemented in gateways. What I did was sort of a first stab at this, but probably two releases from now and go IPFS, we'll have more of this. We need to plumb custom IPLD link systems through everywhere instead of using the default one so we can handle ADLs. And people need to make sure I did the thing right. I probably read the BitTorrent spec right, but there's BitTorrent v1 and v2, and I may have missed an edge case. So reviews welcome. What do we need to make this like great? Like this seems okay. I can load any BitTorrent file. It means I can also make a BitTorrent client that serves data over both BitSwap and the BitTorrent transfer protocol and basically makes the data available to both networks. And then you can make a little BitTorrent client that makes the data available to both networks. You can make a small BitTorrent client that leaves the client for our profess gateways. But in order make this really great, we wouldn't like to be able to handle transferring large blocks. This is most BitTorrent clients respect the same sort of boundaries that we do, but if they send blocks that are too big, we won't be able to handle them. There's a proposal for that. Also, it would be nice if we could use like Wazem to I don't know who's gonna go implement this thing in JavaScript, but probably won't be me. So maybe just write it once and we can run it in more places. There's actually a Bencode codec in Wasm that I wrote that still works. There's an ADL that is mostly there, but the Panda, the Koala renders a little funny at the moment. So I started programming Rust on Sunday. So anyone who knows any Rust, help appreciate it. And thank you. More demos later. Cool. Next up.