Yeah, and we loved it because this film has Ranveer in it. Yeah, that's the only reason we liked it. That's all this film. That's the only reason it's any good. Yeah, this film is good because of Ranveer. Yep, he was the best part of it. Welcome back to our shooting director, Zed Subcorban. I'm Rick. You're close to the next one. We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time. Bye bye. We're Zed Subcorban. Woo! Fastest intro ever. We did heroin before this. And coke. And we're drinking coffee. Yummy. Today we're doing a movie review. of the film that just released called Mimi, which subsequently is Stephanie's grandmother's. That's what they call, she calls her grandma. Calls her Mimi. I bet there's a lot of grandmas called Mimi. Yeah, it's a common expression in the South. And there's a good restaurant. Well, the restaurant itself's Mimi's. Okay, sorry Mimi's, but their biscuits are glorious Mimi's. You know, you should call going to sleep, going to club Mimi's. What? Yeah. Going to sleep? Yeah, when I was growing up in like a news group, we were saying, hey man, you want to go to club Mimi's tonight? And that made you want to sleep. It was a really dumb joke, but we loved it. Anyways, but yeah, the new film that just came out, I think it was Monday, it came out early, actually. Yeah, it surprised us. I believe it was leaked. Yeah. And so they had to, they have to do that. Drop it. Anyways. Still pirate stuff. It's directed by, say his name? Lakshman Udhakar, who was the cinematographer of English English and has done a lot of DOP. And I think this is only the second or third. Yeah. Relatively new for directing. Composed by Aira Rahman. Who's that? I don't know. I don't know. And then starring... Dost. Dost, if you know, you know. And he does because he's our Dost. And then also... Creedie Sonnen. And actually quite a few other people. And then Sambo. Because it's also the mom from... Um... Say her name. Supriapathik Shahid's stepmother. Right. Anyways. So, little non-spoiler review. Then we'll get to the spoiler review. This is one, it's, I don't want to say a light watch, but it's like more of a... I don't really know how to explain it without giving anything away. Yeah, so we'll do... The front end of this, if you've not seen the film, don't worry, we won't ruin it for you. We let the movie tell the story and then we'll warn you and you can come back after you've watched it and watched the rest in the spoiler section. Your initial non-spoiler. Non-spoiler. Mary Poppins had a phrase about herself. Practically perfect in every way. This is almost practically perfect. I love this movie. For me. I'll be interested to see what you say because I think one of the things in this that would be a negative for me wasn't as big of a negative because everything else was so absolutely fantastic that this is actually for me of the new releases because obviously we've reviewed stuff that's been out a long time. And then things that are the brand new fresh releases. For me, I added this to my favorite films of all time. It's right up there for me with English of English. It's one of my favorite, it's my favorite film we've seen this year. This year, this year. But you wouldn't put it in the best film of the year in terms of like if it was for the... That's very different. I know, that's what I'm saying. So obviously if it's in your favor, it should probably be at the top, right? But if it's like, you know, we do it at the end of the year. Your best. Exactly. Probably going to be Malak, Joji. Yeah. Because this is not a film that's made for and it shouldn't be. It's not film festival circuit. It's not going to win awards, but it should win everybody's attention. You should see it. This is a film I think everybody can and should watch and would enjoy. I did really enjoy this film. It was also absolutely infuriating. I've never, not a spoiler, but I'll let you know this. I haven't been this angry at a character or characters on screen since Joffrey. That's, yeah. I was really furious. We'll get into that. Yeah, so obviously. Furious. Just know, obviously I didn't cry. Did you cry? I thought so. I thought you would cry. Absolutely. I thought you would cry. I did not cry, but it definitely stirred up and a very angry emotion in me. And I don't want to give anything away. So we'll wait for the spoiler to come. I haven't been that mad in a long time. Oh, I will say it's a very good film that I think you, it's lighthearted most of the time. Oh, you're going to laugh a lot. Yeah. It's very funny. Our host is, oh my God. He's one of the greatest actors I've ever seen. Sir, the bottom line is this. There are some actors who just will never do bad work and you're one of them. I actually equate the man to Robin Williams and how good he is at both. He can do everything. And it's one of the things that we've said many times. Very few actor, Daniel DeLewis cannot do comedy. If you can't, I've never seen it. Correct. So like the actors that can do both, like obviously Robin Williams, one of the most perfect examples of that. And obviously they're smaller, like Stanley Tucci people like that can definitely do it. But like the really popular Steve Correll. Yeah, but here's the difference with Pankaj, okay? And Manoj can do this too. Yeah, he can. Nawaz, we saw his comedy. Yeah, Nawaz can do this too. But here's the thing that blows my mind about Pankaj. He can like, okay, I've talked about how De Niro can be a heavy and can do comedy, right? But the comedy that Pankaj does, his characters are so light years different than the other characters. If you see this character, and then you go watch Merzifer, where that man, just the click of his neck is intimidating. And the weight of his presence is powerful and strong. And at any moment you feel like something violent can happen, this man is just a softy. Just a sweet, soft. Always brings this couple scenes and we'll get into it in a minute, but he just, oh, he's amazing. I love his actor. I don't want to give too much weight. We'll give it to his brother. Just go watch the film. I think you'll enjoy it. There's a few instances that I will say that I personally just wish they would have done differently in terms of if I was making this film. I did not, so whatever. But we'll get into that. I will say this might be the best white actors we've ever seen. The bar is very low though. With that being said. I'm not going to say they're good. Correct. But the bar is incredibly low. And that's when I... She was way better than him. That's when I said it's almost practically perfect in every way, because if those characters had been as good as everybody else, that's the one, she was way better than him. Yeah, and I think he was right. Cause I think remember when we were talking to Pankaj and we were mentioning white actors, I think he was referring to this. Because this is, and it's not saying much, guys. And it really has gotten me to the point of like, I know we're expensive when we're sad. You get what you pay for. These guys were sad. That's why it's the better of the white actors that we've seen. But if they were also in an American film, I would have said they probably weren't that great. Yeah, it's because the bar is so low. Because the bar is so low, I will say they were the best white actors we've seen so far. Creedy who plays Mimi. Yeah, fantastic. This is, okay, the last time, there's three actresses. Yeah, do we want to just do this in spoilers? Well, I'm not gonna give anything away. So let's go to the spoiler right after this. Here's my, there were three actresses that we saw in the moment, real time, that we hadn't known, right? And who were really just beginning as well. That when we saw them, we were like, okay, that's somebody who's pretty special. The first one was Alia, right? Yeah, absolutely. The next one I think you'll agree that we were seeing in something in the moment, okay? So like Kalki doesn't count, Radhika doesn't count because we'd seen older work of theirs. Kuber's sake in Sacred Games, right? She blew us away, right? I feel exactly the same way with her in this. She was absolutely fantastic. And I heard one she's relatively new. And also she wasn't known for her and her previous stuff that she's done. People are like, she's not, she's not worth anything, essentially. Love her. Clearly she just didn't have the opportunity to shine or the right writing or the right writing, the right whatever. She was fantastic. You got the perfect person to incarnate the title character of this thing. There's not a moment I didn't believe she was who she was. There wasn't a moment I didn't care about her. Absolutely she knocked it out of the park with her in the role. Just go watch the film and then come back. We're gonna do spoilers now. It's definitely worth a watch. I will get into the details of some of the stuff that I just wish was changed a little bit. Now it's spoiler time. But it will make you furious. Absolutely flames on the side of your face. Let's talk about that. Okay, here are the spoilers. So remember the time mark here. Come back if you haven't seen it. Let's talk about what made us angry, shall we? Because I know it's the exact same thing. And I think it's actually, here's the reason it gets you mad is not just because of what's going on in the story but because of what it metaphorically represents. So go ahead, rant. I'm with you. The fact that... Bastards. Yeah. I get what, obviously it's good that they told this story because it happens all the time. It's a very true thing that happens. And I did read as well that this happened to India a lot. Before it got outlawed. So I'm guessing, because obviously if this situation happened a surrogate and people that do surrogacy is so fantastic. It's a wonderful gift. Such a beautiful, selfless thing to do. Correct. By somebody. Absolutely. But obviously here we have laws against just if something happens to a child you can't just say abandon it without any repercussions. So let's talk about that first of all. Because I know this happens.  Yeah, or wanna kill it or whatever. It's absolutely an abhorrent thought, right? Because one, that's not a death sentence. Exactly. Whether they have downs, autism, whatever the case may be a deformity, whatever, it's they're a child and they're your child. Exactly. You will love that child. Yes. Guardless.  If you do not. Yes. They are so... On top of not thinking about the person you put the baby inside of. And that was for the whole thing that they do. Because so that end of itself when they run away, I couldn't believe. And that's how well-written directed and acted everything was. Because I deeply cared about these people. I especially deeply cared about Mimi and what this meant to her life. But obviously when they came back. When they showed up unannounced, I wanted to break something. My wife was yelling to the screen. I wanted to break something. And it was at that moment I thought, I haven't hated someone on screen this much since Joffrey. Where I literally wanna see them disemboweled live in front of me. Yes. Toward the end of the film when they're walking to the airport. Yeah. I was, I so badly wanna just, I was like, please let Pankaj just go fomers for right now and shoot them. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It was, it was absolutely. And I was like, I was like, this is a life-hearted Indian film. There's no way it's gonna end with them giving up the child. But they just kept going, kept going. And I don't know if I liked the ending per se. Totally, even though I was happy they didn't get the child. 100%, 100% happy they didn't get the child.  I, oh God, it makes me so upset. But the fact that they just was like, we found this baby, we don't care about that one anymore. Remember when we didn't care about it before? The same thing happened. So I don't know that I liked that. I liked that they didn't get the child. I just, I didn't want them to get it. They'll be on the plane with her and she'll say something and she'll have a list. Toward the plane around. Yeah. I didn't want these people to get anything except jail and death. And here's what I feel bad for that little girl now. I was enraged on three levels. I was enraged for the story itself and what they were doing that was so incredibly selfish. So incredibly selfish. Well written because obviously it's supposed to be that way, this is a true thing that happens. And that's the second level for me. These things have happened many, many times over. They happen often. And that's the larger thing for me is I felt this movie in that section in very much a way is a metaphor for the way white people have treated India. Just considered it nothing but a commodity. Yeah. Done whatever the hell they wanted to do with it for their own means under the guise of this is gonna be good for you. Cause this was under the guise of it's gonna be good for you. Money. But ultimately it's not good for the white person. Oh well we trump you. But then they're like we can come back and take whatever we want. Exactly. Because we've got the power, we've got the money. Yeah. That for me was one of the most heartbreaking aspects of it because it had the level of I care about these people in this story. I care about the stories this represents. And then ultimately when they were driving in the car and they're crying and the grandma and the dad and the whole cast was so, so good. I thought this is India man. This is India's history. They've done nothing wrong. They've attacked nobody. Yeah. They have done something wrong. In that regard. In that regard. In that regard. In that regard. These people did nothing wrong. And here they are. And when it comes to Britain. Yeah. You know, white people have done. Oh yeah. Winston Churchill. Yeah. It was so, so well done. And I don't know if they intended that to be part of the dynamic. But it was really powerful. Yeah. And it was hard to, because obviously if this situation, it really couldn't happen without a bunch of repercussions and legal action happening to the parents for abandoning a child. Because it's child abandonment at that point. Here in America. In America. If they were like, we don't want anymore because as downs it's child abandonment. Also there's a contract. So that does happen. Two, if he's four years old. So the Mimi would have obviously gone through the process of adopting this child. Because obviously it's technically not horrors. So right when they abandoned them, there would have been paperwork. And so these people would now have zero legal opportunity to take this child back. Because it's no longer theirs. Right. It is Mimi's. Right. Because the paperwork is, regardless of if it's biologically theirs. It doesn't matter. Obviously at the time that they were taking place in this. It's happened a lot to India. I've been told that they've banned this now. And so it can't, this kind of- Surrogacy? No, like there's rules and laws to protect- Good. Protect the surrogate mama. Yes. Good. And all that kind of stuff. Good. One of the issues that I would have changed, I would have preferred if they would have actually kept the child a downs kid. One to kind of get rid of the taboo of that. And also, would they have come back if the kid did have downs? And so, it was just, I thought it was, I didn't like that it was just like, oh, the baby's fine. It was, that was just, it was a false night. Which do happen often. Actually, my wife told me she said, they do tell you basically don't take the test because there's so much that's wrong with the test. Right. So it's very probable that- A lot of people don't do it. Very probable that that could happen. But it's just, if I was doing this, I would have kept the kid actually down. Here's why I like it. And I'm sure the writers talked about that aspect and made a choice. And I bet it could have gone either way because I can see pros to both. The reason I like him being kept that way is because it's a big FU to the American parents. It gives them a big, see? See? If he's born with downs, you don't get to give them that, look at how selfish you were that you were willing to give up on a kid when he didn't even have the challenge that you gave up on them all. You still have done that. It would have been, now, I didn't see the twist coming. I thought the way this is felt, they're gonna, Mimi's gonna keep Raj. Mimi's gonna keep Raj. So how's this gonna happen? And my hope was, I love the movie so much, I would have been forgiving but I really didn't want it to be just so simple where they show up at the airport and they're like, we had to change your heart. I didn't want it to be that simple. So I didn't see the twist coming of adoption. That is where I had already had my emotions here, right? When I see John with the Indian girl and I know that they're adopting waterworks, I was done and was crying till the credits, which Amazon, Amazon, by the way, if anybody in Amazon can do this, stop showing me previews of some other show when I'm only 60 seconds into the credits. I like watching all of the credits and seeing everybody who participated in the creative output, stop doing it.  Good grief.  I've already got enough of you advertising to me nonstop, the whole film, it didn't stop just because of the credits. The film is over when the credits are over. Yeah, I had a different reaction. I loved the adoption aspect. I was very upset at the adoption. I thought you would be. Was it too simple, too easy for you? That, and also I didn't want them to have anything. I don't think they deserve a child. I think they are garbage people that deserve death. See, that's where for me, I would rather see. No, because now I feel bad for them, they're gonna abandon that child. And he's having his diarrhea. They'll be like, no, I can't handle a kid with diarrhea. No, because for me, I feel like the moral to the story for them was they saw the error of their ways and repented and won't make the same mistake again. That was my belief in them. Yeah, I don't, I don't want them to get anything. Anyways, let's get into the other parts of the story. We kind of went on a rant about the entire thing there. Sorry about that. I hope you enjoyed it. I don't know if you did, but yeah, Pankaj, oh my God, we'll get back on him. I love this man. One, he brings a innocence to his character.  He's a very likable person. But especially when he's playing a character like this, where he's just the scene where he was told that they wanted to get rid of the baby. And he was like, please, please don't do this. And he was like crying.  Which was a really good thing for the writers to do. Making a child this man. Obviously he was so authentic in all of these moments. And he was so believable and so like, oh yeah, watching Grey Dacking is just one of the most enjoyable things ever. Agreed, agreed. Which is why we rave about it so much. It's just, because when it's good, it's one of the best. And I, sir, our toast, I see what you do. You know how to do comedy. And get right on the edge of it being, it never gets there. But you, in a movie like this, where everything is supposed to be real and grounded, you're still good enough and aware enough of your comedy aspects to do something purely because you know what worked comedically, but still let it be genuine and natural and come from an organic place. Especially that moment when he was talking to the guy who was like asking him and grilling him about all these questions to see if he's really a Muslim.  And then he's like, eh, he has another idea. He's right on that edge of becoming, if he just added five more percent, he's playing for the laugh and you don't wanna do that. That's how he's as good as they get. Yeah, as good as they get. Incredible. And just like this, Ludo, obviously he was hilarious, but a very different character, but he never plays for the shtick. Like, you know, Jim Carrey, obviously, Jim Carrey is the shtick. And he doesn't on purpose and we all love him for it. It's amazing. Exactly. It's an amazing shtick and we all love him. It's Jerry Lewis. Yeah, yeah. But like, his style of comedy is just so fricking. It's the best. It's Groundlings comedy because it's all coming, he's not playing for the laugh, even though he knows it's funny. Yeah, that's what I meant. Her. Again. She was fantastic. I hope she gets more opportunities in the future because I know, like I said, she was more known, she wasn't really known as an actor. So I'm guessing she just didn't get the opportunity because she shined in this. Absolutely shined. Yeah. I was, every moment she was on screen, I believed her, I cared about her, from the moment she's flirting with her Ranveer poster. Yeah, and we loved it because this film has Ranveer in it. Yeah, that's the only reason we liked it. That's all. That's the only reason it's any good. Yeah, this film was good because of Ranveer. Yep, he was the best part of it. That's for the end of the intro. Yeah, that should be the intro. I'm so excited. And I think there's maybe something even prophetic in that scene where she's looking at all the stars on her wall and saying, I'm coming to get you. I'm gonna be with you. If there aren't people wanting to scoop her up, I looked at her IMDB page. She has only one thing right now in pre-production. She should have 10. Yeah. She's wonderful and it's interesting. She does look tall and I talked about her being tall but that's because five, seven and a half is really, really tall. Yeah. She didn't have a false moment. I thought her labor scene was 100% believable. I saw on her face the head and shoulders coming out. I saw that going over the top aspect. I believed every single thing she was going through, I was mad with her and that's a credit not just to her which she deserves an enormous amount of credit but this is incredibly well written. Yeah. Really, really well written. It must have been a joy. Hands down to the writers and the writers. To have the script and be able to work on this project. And I did notice it was, and that was before I even realized that he was part of English or English. I was comparing it to English or English. Me too. I was like, this is very like, there's a great message, a great heart behind it but it was very shot very similarly as well to English or English and obviously when I found out it was like, that makes a lot of sense. I loved her parents. I loved them. I love seeing this side of a, say her name. I don't want, I need to know her name. Supriapathik. Supriap. Whom we loved in Ramlyla. We, she couldn't rave enough about her in Ramlyla. She's a great actress. She's on a different side of it here. Yeah. Comedic side. Yeah. But still just as good, still just as believable. And all of the confusion and it just kept piling on. That was seen as hilarious. When his wife finally shows up. Yeah. And they look at the kid, that's your kid. No one, who's the dad? Wait, he has three wives? No, no, no, no, no. Brilliant. Pankaj was just brilliant. Just brilliant. Right. The white guy was a little weird to me a lot of the times. But like I said, they were probably the best white actors we've seen. Outside of maybe that one in Cyra that died really early on that we liked a lot. Yeah. And also I'll never forget it was a very, very small role but in Rang de Basanti. Oh, okay. We really liked him a lot. But once again, they're sag. So it makes sense that they're the best we've seen. Yeah, what you pay for. But I just felt that they weren't on the same level as everybody else. But it was great that she knew Hindi. Like fully, I thought she, her strongest things were actually when she was actually in Hindi, I believe. Yeah. So that was good to see. I enjoyed that. No, and I agree. They weren't... It's hilarious that she is higher on the star meter than like Supriya. Oh, I know, I know, let's... We might be higher than some of them, which is ridiculous. I know, we actually are.  Stupid. It's ridiculous. Anyway, go ahead. But they are, they were, as we saw on the trailer, we were like, and thankfully... Yeah. They didn't ruin it and that's good. They didn't ruin it. That's good. That's all I can ask you. And that is the only thing about this that doesn't make it like absolutely perfect is that comparatively, I didn't feel as enamored by their performances as everybody else. I was enamored with everybody else, including her best friend. Yeah, she was great. Have we seen her before, she looks... No, and she's got a huge resume. Does she? Yes, she's done a lot that we've seen her in some trailers probably, but she's... She, you know who she reminded me of sometimes? Both in just her screen presence, but also her believability and her skill level was till the time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, she did great. Everybody did so good. The writing of the thing. Oh, Ayer Rahman. That was the other thing that I had to mention. Great songs. That was great. All over the music. Great big Bollywood number right at the beginning with the... Yes, and he, but he also, let me cause it's Ayer Rahman, man. He's gonna give you exactly what you need on the funny quirky things and give you funny quirky music.  He's gonna give you what you want on big musical numbers. And that's that for me too. I thought it was a wonderful inclusion to introduce her as, not just the actress, but for us to be introduced to her the way the couple were as a dancer. Because when that number started and we're really getting to see her for the first time, I was hooked immediately. I was like, wow, this girl is captivating. I really wanna get to know who this person is. Ayer Rahman, he gave you exactly what you need for this film. Yeah, this film was a wonderful surprise. Not obviously we liked it from the trailer, but the first time I heard about it was a week ago. I didn't expect it to be this good. Yeah, I was expecting like, oh that was a nice film. A fun rom. Yeah, but it was like a wonderfully enjoyable, furious film. With a lot of heart. Yeah. A lot of heart. So make more of these. And a great message. Also, I did hear, this is a kind of an adaption of a Marathi film. Oh. Okay. I did hear that. So I know some of you are gonna scream that in the comments. I do know that. I'm sorry we haven't seen it. I just heard about this one a week ago. Yeah, exactly. But I hear that's more of a dramatic take as opposed to this one obviously because it's more on the rom-com. The rom-com feel. Well, not really rom, but more of the calm. Yeah. And this one. It feels like a rom-com. But I loved, and I loved at the very, very end, the final quote when it said, there's enough children that need to be adopted that it could make up nine countries. It was like 125 million orphans. Yeah. Brace my heart. But yeah, let us know what you thought about the film and what should be, we need to watch all of Pankaj's stuff. We'll watch everything he does. And anybody from this, anybody from this, from Sai Tamhankar who played her best friend and from Kreeti. Kreeti, yeah. Anything she's in, I wanna see. Yeah. I believe in her. And, Supriya. Of course. I love you. And anytime, I mean, this is what, second or third time he's directed something. Yeah. Absolutely. Keep directing. Yeah. And Ehrman, keep composing.  At least just, you probably found a groove. The rom-com thing, just stick to what you know. Let us know what you thought about the film. Down below.


The floor may not be a robot. Back in 1995, an episode of The Simpsons called Bart sells his soul first aired on the Fox Network on October 8th. However, four years later a strange version which I can only describe as a prototype aired on a Saturday around 6am. I was up early that morning because I was going on a vacation and was channel surfing when I came across the episode. I was shot to see an episode of The Simpsons starting rather than Saturday morning cartoons, as The Simpsons isn't exactly a kids show. My first thought was that it was some sort of commercial but surely enough it started playing like a regular episode. Based on what was happening, it became evident that it was Bart sells his soul, but it quickly takes a different turn. Rather than the scene playing where Bart sells his soul to Milhouse, it cuts to a scene with a very different Bart, who suddenly become very very religious and starts arguing with Milhouse. It starts with them talking about getting a squishy from the quickie Mart, but neither of them have any money on them, which is why Milhouse suggests Bart to just steal two squishies from the store. Bart, very out of character, immediately says no, saying it would be wrong. But Milhouse pops in how who cares it doesn't matter, and it eventually comes out how Milhouse thinks there is no God and that Jesus sucks. This immediately starts getting violent between the two friends. They start arguing and it's more than just a petty argument between friends. From the tone of their voices it's obvious they sound like they hate one another. It was very disheartening to see them fighting like this. They both start yelling is not and is to back at each other in an immature yet psychotic manner until Milhouse's head explodes. Brains, skull fragments, and blood splattered everywhere. Bart immediately starts crying in an extremely loud and hysterical manner. He turns over his lifeless headless friend.  As far as I know, the airing of the episode was an accidental fluke since I've never seen it played again. It must have been a prototype or early version of Bart sells his soul, but obviously it was too morbid, rejected and not considered canon.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another card making video. Today I have a full project and I will be working with products from the latest card kit by Simon Says Stamp. This is the October card kit, it's all about fall and for a chance to win one of these card kits make sure to visit my blog because I have a giveaway there. So first let's start with the paper pad in a lovely fall color combo. You will get 12 double sided pages. These are from a collection by Simple Stories which is called Cozy Days and the pages are 6x8. Lots of pattern papers in muted colors with flowers, oranges, lots of leaves. You will get two of those pages where you can cut them out and they can create the focal point for your card. And now let's take a look at the envelopes in two colors. One of them is shiny. You will also get these two packs of stickers. These are by American Crafts. One of them has tiny dog stickers. The other one has tiny cat stickers. Perfect for all pet animals out there. This kit is a great value for money. You will get two stamp sets in there. The first one the big one is a 6x8 one and it's called Happy Fall. Lovely images, big focal points. You can color them with your favorite mediums and it comes with many sentiments as well. I will actually be using this stamp set today for my card and now let's take a look at the smaller one. This is 2x3. It gives you a couple of houses and sentiments and it's called Loving You from afar. Always remember that if you like specific products that are included in the kit you can get them individually and you will find the links down below. You also get three A2 white scored cards. These are by Simon Says Stamp. And here is a package of puffy alphabet stickers. These are by Pinkfresh Studio. There is a lower case and upper case and many duplicates of each one of the letters so you can create your own sentiments for your project.  These are perfect for creating cards for fall and this is exactly what I'm going to do today. So I'm going to start by stamping the pumpkin from the stamp set as well as a leaf and I'm going to stamp that with a black ink that is alcohol friendly since I'm planning to use my alcohol markers to color everything. Now I switched to my acrylic block just because I find it quicker to stamp smaller images so I did stamp the leaves a few more times and I'm also going to stamp a couple of mushrooms that are available in the stamp set. I'm going to create a little composition of the pumpkin and all those bits and pieces to create a focal point for my card. For coloring I'm going to use my three blend brass markers. These are three markers in one bar and I'm going with the autumn hues. These three markers is what I got in a set of three blends. The one that I'm using now for the pumpkin is the burnt orange blend and I'm also going to bring in two more colors which are the dull green blend and the gold brown blend.  I prefer to play around with the different elements and design my final composition so I always like to do quick coloring and I find that these markers are perfect for that. I don't have to look through my stash of markers to find which are going to blend nicely. I have everything in one marker and I'm ready to go. So for the leaves I'm going with browns and greens and I'm even going to mix greens with browns in one leaf just to give that a full look and I'm sure you can do a better job than me in coloring. I just like to do it super quickly but I am happy with the results. For the mushrooms I went with the same color palette so these three markers were enough for coloring all the images. One way to go is to stamp them with masking so you can create your composition from the beginning and then cut it out all together or just stamp that directly on your card base. I like to pop things on my cards. I like to have dimension. That's why I usually stamp them, color them and then use my scissors to fuzzy cut them. As I cut around them I'm making sure that I leave a white border. Very thin but it's still there. This is going to help that image pop against a busy background and at the same time it makes cutting easier. To add some shine and glitter on my card I decided to bring in this glitter cardstock. This is by Tonic Studios and it's the Welsh Gold.  Perfect for full cards. I'm going to add some foam tape at the back and stick that on top of a four-and-a-quarter by five and a half brown panel and this is one of the cardstock that was included in the kit. Now if you notice those die cuts don't stand out against that busy background so I cut out this circle out of that glitter cardstock that I used for the background and instead of sticking that at the center to create my composition on top I decided to move things around a little bit to make it more interesting so I'm going to combine that circle with a banner where I have already imposed my sentiment and I went with hay pumpkin that I white and post that and I'm going to stick those together. I am using foam tape at the back to raise that banner.  For that I'm using foam squares at the back.  This is a lovely design perfect for fall you can switch the sentiment and it can be great for Thanksgiving as well. Any sentiment would go nicely on this one it can even be a birthday card for fall if you like. I'm adding the final touches with those adorable mushrooms and then just to add even more sparkle on this card I'm going to use some copper gems. There are already little dots all around the background so these are the dots that I'm going to follow to add my glue there and then stick the gems on top and an embellishment wand for this job is super handy you can see how easy it is for me to manipulate those gems. Now my panel is ready all I need to do is to stick it on top of an A2 card so I'm going to bring in one of those pre-scored ones included in the kit.  I like to use liquid glue instead of a tape runner or double-sided tape just because before this glue dries I do have some time to slide that on top of the card and make sure that I have the perfect placement. Here are some close-up photos on today's card don't forget I have a giveaway on my blog if you want to win this card kit make sure to go over there and leave me a comment just like always down below in the description area you will find links to everything I used I hope that you had fun today that you got inspired and until next time stay safe


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Divide and brainwash. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. In 2016, the most corrupt and murderous government on earth dealt with public discontent by selling a sociopathic billionaire as the anti-establishment presidential candidate. Then in 2020, sold a lifelong empire lackey as the revolutionary people's uprising against that candidate. You want a revolution? Here. There. Done. Glad you got that out of your system. Set up an imperialist oligarchy which rules as tyrannically as any monarch, remain hidden and unaccountable, propagandize people into thinking they are free, and whenever there is unrest due to systemic injustices, let them elect one of your employees who promises to change things. The imperialist oligarchy deliberately keeps the public poor, busy and confused and then directs their resulting anger toward Russia, China, immigrants, and people from the other political party. Our anger at each other protects them from our anger landing where it belongs. Propagandists know you don't need to give the average person factual reasons to believe something. You don't even need to give them financial reasons. All you need is to make sure your claim validates their current worldview. Rigidly held belief structures facilitate propaganda. Americans will happily give Israel billions of dollars a year to murder Palestinian civilians and then brush off a panhandler on the street because he might spend the money on booze. Israel is getting another prime minister who was partly raised and educated in the United States with expensive ties to U.S. power and speaks English with an American accent. Stop acting like these are two separate countries. The U.S. power alliance's genocide in Yemen remains the single ugliest thing that is happening in our world today. What will it take for humanity to cease averting its eyes from this horror? Unlisting in the U.S. military should be infinitely more taboo and shameful than being a sex worker. Until mass media was invented, the best carrying agent for establishment propaganda was religion. I have no problem with people saying that the furthest left politicians in the most powerful government on earth should be a lot further left than they are. Finding up centrists like AOC as far left and the best we'll ever get builds a roadblock to further leftward movement. Leftists who try to derail the anti-imperialist conversation by concern trolling about human rights within Pentagon targeted nations are the same as rightists who try to derail the racial justice conversation by concern trolling about black on black crime. One of the biggest challenges for a developing anti-imperialist, at least in my experience, is learning to differentiate between those who actually want to end the oligarchic empire and those who just want the empire to act a bit more cosmetically nice than it does. These are two completely different positions, especially because the latter is pure fantasy. You cannot have a globe dominating unipolar power structure that doesn't use violent force to maintain that world order. Yet, the two groups often wind up moving in overlapping circles. I've never had trouble knowing what my position is toward the empire, but I've often struggled figuring out who shared that position. There was a long unfolding process of going, oh, we're not on the same page at all. You want entirely different things from what I want. Most of the sectarian fighting you see on the left splits along those lines. Those who want to end the oligarchic empire, and those who want the oligarchic empire to be a bit nicer. These two positions are ultimately irreconcilable, so those factions will never get along. If there are indeed extraterrestrials, and they are indeed flying around our world in strange aircraft, we are more likely to get the truth about this from the extraterrestrials themselves than from the US military. The US government is pure swamp. You can't use the swamp to fix the swamp. Democrats were never going to use a special council to remove Trump. Trump was never going to take down the deep state. The US government isn't going to investigate itself and reveal the truth about aliens. Perhaps the best explanation for the many reports of unidentified flying objects demonstrating maneuvers and features we don't understand is that we're hurtling through a vast and mysterious universe that our barely evolved primate brains know almost nothing about. If there are ETs visiting us, they probably already treat this planet more like a home than we do. Humans focus on outer space to avoid focusing on inner space. Maybe the world really did end in 2012. Everything's been unraveling into an exponentially expansive field of weirdness ever since.


The East African Institute for Fundamental Research is based in Kigali, Rwanda. It is a partner institute of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. I'd like many people to join us and collaborate with us to advance science in Africa because I believe honestly that we can make Africa great and prosperous by advancing science. Basically, it will develop research in physics in Rwanda, in the East African region, and in Africa as a whole. People that already have a first degree can participate in the Masters and then later on go to the PhD program. We also do short courses and workshops in different areas of physics like in solar cells, renewable energy, or also in high-energy physics. Apart from this, we also have a visiting scientist program. We can arrange to visit and work with us and do high-quality research with us. Yes, we are very excited. It's a historical moment for us. Oh, yes, yes, yes, great. It's a center that has been created to follow what ICDP has been trying to do in the past few years. It's just to create a partnership with ICDP to play the role that we play globally in regions. So we started in Brazil, Rwanda, China, and Mexico. So in that sense, the center here is important for us because it will be our main institution in Africa. And then we try to promote all sides in the region, in the whole African region, following the model of ICDP. So we have been successfully working for more than 50 years. So we know what works and we know what doesn't work. Hopefully we can just expand our mission by having this center located in Africa. So we need to develop a critical mass of people that are able to carry out research at the highest level and make discoveries that will benefit Africa and lead to African development and advancement. Rwanda has a policy of advancement through science, and it makes it the most natural choice to have this institute here in Rwanda at this time. Governments and policy makers have realized that science is a key partner, a key player in the whole development of countries. It was not appreciated in the past and it's more and more appreciated now. Some countries more than others, of course. And Rwanda is a good case of the ones who are appreciating more science. What I think they still fail to understand, many of them, not all of them, is that they want immediate results. They want to have science and they want to skip and they immediately get applications and say we have to do science only to solve our problems and the same. And that's the wrong perspective. And of course I can understand the perspective from the politician point of view, from the policy maker point of view, because they need to bring results, they need to deliver. Scientists, we see it in a completely different way. We know that science is a long-term investment and so you need to build up that core of basic science in the countries and then see how you get to applications. In climate change, for example, modelling is used using these theoretical sciences and we can now know how to predict what is coming later so that we can react accordingly, prepare the policies for the countries or for all the communities. I'm really happy. The place is fantastic, especially the location. Rwanda is a fantastic, amazing place and I'm happy because I can study in Africa and pursue my studies there. Well the advice I will give to young scientists from Africa in particular is especially not to give up their dreams. There are plenty of opportunities now being created and it is clear in developed countries. It's less clear yet in developing countries, but it will be.


Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I will be doing my homeschool planning video part two So you guys if any of you are new here to my channel again, my name is Brittany I'm a homeschooling mom to three girls and this upcoming year I will have a sixth grader a kidney gardener and a pre-care and you guys This is my fourth year of homeschool that I am entering. I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous But making videos like this and really having like somewhat of a plan to start off our homeschool year Is really like settling for me. It really just lets me know. Okay I'm not just jumping in head first like I was in my first year of homeschool I kind of know the start from the finish and you know, I'm just really really excited about this upcoming homeschool year So you guys in today's video, I am going to be planning out My curriculum overview for in particular my middle schooler I was going to combine my planning with my kidney gardener and my preschooler with my middle schooler However, for the sake of this video and for me to create like separate playlists for you guys like with middle school content And for like kidney garden pre-k content. I decided to separate out my planning video So in today's video, we are just going to be planning my oldest daughter's Curriculum her overview how I'm going to break down the weeks in her subjects And I already planned our first two weeks of our homeschool So you guys I'm going to go ahead and flip you around and we are going to go ahead and get on into this thing Okay, you guys here is the scary part where you line up all of your homeschooling curriculum on your table And this is for my sixth grader. I have lined up all of the pieces of curriculum I plan on using this homeschooling year as far as her core And the first thing I'm going to do is figure out How many lessons that I have in each piece pieces of these curriculums And how I plan to attack them on a weekly basis Okay, you guys we are actually going to start off planning our curriculum overview with math So you guys this year we're actually going to be using math UC data and we're going to be supplementing our math with oak metals Math six now I am supplementing math for my uh door this homeschooling year because this is a testing year for her So since math you see is a full on mastery curriculum And she's only going to be going over decimals and percentages with a little bit of review I want to make sure other skills that she already has mastered in the past that she gets an opportunity to review them because Oak metals math is more of a spiral curriculum So we're actually going to be using this as a supplement and a review in preparation for her standardized test But when you guys see inside of oak metals math six, you're going to see how simple And effective it is and it's not it's going to be really seamless with me doing both of these curriculums for her And I'm not going to really overwork her when it comes to math So as far as math you see zeta goes we actually started it over the summer and I'm so happy We got a little head start within math and um Brielle did an awesome job with math you guys. We actually completed the first uh unit within uh math You see zeta over the summer. So in us completing the first unit I know we already completed eight lessons math you see zeta has a total of 30 lessons So right now we actually only have 21 remaining lessons in math you see zeta So i'm going to go ahead and put a post it right here So I can remind myself that we only have 21 lessons So as far as oak metals math six goals you guys it has a total of 36 weeks and three Lessons per week which is 88 lessons So oak metals math you guys it's really really simple and I really like how um It's just clean pages similar to math you see and I'm going to give you an overview of how one week of oak metals math looks So this is day one, which is a skill check. So since zeta doesn't have any multiplication and division This will be an extra extra uh practice for brielle and it will be amazing for her to you know uh get refreshed on Some of these skills here is the skill practice sheet which has a total of only 12 problems on it And then the test again has a total of 12 problems or on it and then we go into the next week skill check So um since oak metals math is just in three days I figure within three days of the week when brielle does math We can go ahead and add these problems in and or we can break up these three lessons over the course of monday through friday I'm kind of going to see how she likes it and wants to add in her supplemental math But um as you guys can see it's really really simple and I'm excited for us to dive into oak metals math So this is our uh math. We have 21 lessons in zeta And 88 lessons in math you see so are in oak metals math So as you guys can see I actually don't have enough math to get me over for the whole school year So, uh, I may have to pick up the next levels of math in our second semester Who knows but this is something for me to keep in mind As I am going through my home schooling year depending on how fast she goes through these curriculas So, uh, this is math and this is how many lessons I have remaining in these curriculums Okay, you guys as far as english and history in oak metal these curriculums coincide with each other So if briel is writing a paper in ancient history, it goes along with the grammar She's learning in english and it also has a literature component. So I went ahead and I broke down each of these so each of these curricula pieces again has 36 weeks and or 36 lessons So, um, I know I really don't have much wiggle room when it comes to these curricula pieces because We have 36 weeks in our school year and exactly 36 weeks in our oak metals history and english Now the same thing goes with science. Uh, the basic life science has a total of 36 lessons as well. So, um, Again, uh, with most curriculas you typically have like, um, a little bit of wiggle room when it comes to it But for oak metal, it's 36 weeks spot on and um, yeah So I know this is kind of like how this curricula works. So you guys on to grammar So oak metal does have grammar in their curriculum, but their grammar is pretty light and because my daughter's strength is english I typically like to beef up this subject area for her and uh, you guys my daughter She loves rodent staffs build an english series We have been doing it now for two years and this will be our third year So we actually worked in rodent staff over the summer and we completed chapter seven in rodent staff six and it is a total of, um How many grammar chapters is it? It's a total of 10 grammar chapters I always skip the last chapter because it's like dictionary skills, bible concordiances and things like that. So, um It's a total of 10 chapters. So briel told me this year that she actually doesn't want to do fix it grammar She prefers to do only rodent staff And i'm going to respect her wishes So I went ahead and I purchased rodent staff seven used because when I counted out the grammar lessons in rodent staff six We actually only have a total of 31 lessons remaining in rodent staff english six and For rodent staff english seven. I have a total of 93 lessons. So in total there is 124 Lessons in these rodent staff curriculum, which is perfect. Um, it gives me a little bit of wiggle room I have 180 days of school. So for this particular subject if I only want to do it three to four days out the week Um, I can this curriculum. I actually sit down with briel So it is teacher intensive where i'm working it one on one with her versus her other pieces of curriculum where It's more independent and student led but because she loves this I went ahead and got it and I'll see how you know, we may tie in fix it grammar and or not this homeschooling year But for right now, I let my daughter win this battle and we are going to continue with rodent staff build an english series So this is another piece of our core curriculum Now these workbooks right here that i'm showing you guys are our supplement of workbooks Which pretty much means that I don't mind if these workbooks carry us to the next homeschooling year and or summer These are things that i'm uh using to help my daughter Hone in on specific skills work routes is for vocabulary and reading detective is just for that higher order of thinking and reading comprehension We typically do reading detective once a week and we actually started reading detective last homeschooling year because this level is For grades five through six. So we only have a total of 22 tests. So in me knowing this I know that reading detective Is a is a curriculum that I probably will pick up in our second semester and or Closer to like our third quarter or third six week term will probably be a time that I will pick up reading detective So I know this piece of curriculum. I'm not going to start off our homeschool year using As far as word routes goes word routes has a total of 30 lessons in it and it's sectioned off in a through d So that's um What five days out the week, but I looked at the first part of the word routes and it has like a pre test So the kiddos could pretty much do both of these pages in day one and then the rest of the days I will have her do bcnd So that is pretty much how word routes pretty much goes as far as a lesson So I know I have a pretty good buffer for word routes because it's 30s lessons I have 36 weeks in our homeschooling year So pretty much this is another piece of curriculum that I'm probably not going to start off our first week of homeschool with So I'm going to go ahead and put these two aside and know that I will pick these ones up later Now as far as braille's vocabulary cartoons, we have been working over this over the summer and It has been a huge hit. So I think we're going to continue this and starting off our homeschooling year First things first, but um as we get comfortable probably within like the second or the third week I will go ahead and add in word routes and she will be doing a combination of word routes and A vocabulary cartoons to really help her in those vocabulary skills So you guys this is the overview of my core curriculum now I'm going to show you guys my planner and how I planned out our first two weeks of homeschool Okay, you guys, this is my homeschool planner this homeschooling year and it's actually all set up for the most part As I go throughout the year. I typically add and change things up But this is how it looks starting off, you know, uh day one of the homeschool year I haven't started my index just yet. This is something I will typically do as I built my calendar or my My calendar as I built my planner and things like that but uh here is where I typed up my overview for my Sixth graders curriculum and everything that we're going to be doing and as you guys can see I went ahead and I typed up all of the lessons that we have left So everything that I went over with you guys I went ahead and I typed it up on this table of contents page So this right here is my core. These are things that I absolutely want to cover Uh in our homeschooling year. I want to actually complete them as far as my supplements These are supplemental things that I'm going to be using throughout my homeschooling year But these are things that I don't mind if I don't finish and or if it goes through summer So I definitely love having these things sectioned off So I know what are my absolute musts to finish and the things that I know that it's not really a must for me to finish And then I also have Brielle's electives down here that she's going to be doing this homeschool year So uh now that I know the amount of lessons that I have I actually broke broken them up through days So for math you see zeta. We're going to be doing that monday through friday for oak metals math I have monday through friday, but again oak metals math. It's only three lessons per week So it just depends on if we're going to break down the problems and or if she's just going to do those three lessons Three days out the week we're going to kind of like fill that part out as far as english goes We are actually going to be doing our oak metals english monday through thursday I believe we'll be able to cover all of the things in the english within four days as far as her ancient history We're going to be doing that on wednesdays and thursdays For her science. We're going to be doing it on mondays and tuesdays I like to be able to block off our history and science only two days out the week as far as english goes The grammar that I talked about We're going to be doing grammar three to four days out the week and for right now I have a schedule to do it three days out the week So we're going to be doing grammar tuesday wednesday and thursday as far as all of our literature and read alouds I have a schedule to do one once a month and as you guys can see I added in another book Which is the first rule of punk with a literature guide I wanted to try out blossom and roots new literature guide So I actually added in an extra literature piece for us this homeschooling year Again, here goes our supplemental things things that i'm going to be pulling in I still have the fixa grammar book for here Just in case it's something that I do want to add in for ladder weeks and or use over the summer So that's why I have used as needed as far as a supplement to science I am going to be using con academies Middle schools life science and I have used as needed because if there is a video lesson that corresponds with What bria is learning in life science? I'm going to have her watch that video and then do her assignments from oak meadow as a supplement Same as same with curiosity chronicles ancient times before I actually decided to Go with oak meadow. I was going to use curiosity chronicles So I am going to be using their interactive notebook from curiosity chronicles in conjunction with oak meadow's ancient history So bria will be able to have an interactive notebook and we will just pull out Any extra readings as needed or as wanted in Her ancient history. So these are just things that I'm going to be pulling out These are bria's electives that we are going to be doing and again, they're the same electives from last year I have living harmonies living art lessons She's going to be doing spanish through rosetta stone and then her piano is through hoffman academy and electives She does she's going to be doing um Her music and art every other friday and then as far as spanish and hoffman academy That's something she does on a deli monday through friday so you guys um here is my um My calendar that I already have pulled out with all the days. We're going to be taking off again This is a tentative calendar. So things may change Here is my field trips that I have already planned out for the homeschooling year And I was a little bit bougie you guys and I actually put a picture of each of the field trips We already did the tellage museum you guys it was so much fun But I went ahead and I have the rest of them This is not the order we're going to go on the field trips But I just wanted to put them here and I have some blank spaces if we have any other field trips that we might go on So here is the classes. I went ahead and just put um piano and spanish for briel as far as classes Um, we do have a homeschool group, but I didn't put it right here as far as the curriculum overview I just took a screenshot of each of the pieces of curriculum and I put it on uh this little curriculum overview page Here is a briel's rod and staff and then here is my kenny gardeners and my preschoolers work And again when I get to their planning video, I will show you guys in more details about that So, uh, let's go ahead and go to the next pages that I filled out, which is the curriculum, uh progress And here is briel's curriculum progress and again Um, I have already shaded out the math you see zeta that we did in her curriculum progress It's pretty much just her core. So she hasn't started anything else except for a math you see zeta So the next page is in the planner is my month overview. So this is my july overview. So, um, I have any other appointments that I have. So again, our first day of school is the 24th I put any like dentist and doctor's appointments. My birthday. You guys was on the 15th So I use this as like a general calendar. So, um, this is pretty much just on my general calendar for july as of right now This is my summer overview and everything that we covered in summer and the books that my kiddos Enjoyed my younger kiddos enjoyed this one and the all the independent reads and the reads me and briel read together And what we actually accomplished over the summer I have on this month in review Here goes august and um right here. I just have the weeks and again Other appointments that I'm going to be having for the kiddos. I went ahead and I wrote it on our actual home school planner So you guys now, let's go ahead and get into the week overview of how I actually broken down our curriculum because When we start off our homeschooling year, uh, we are not going to do every single piece of curriculum that I just showed you We're going to really give ourselves a soft start. So for briel, uh, first things first as far as her reading goes briel's fun independent reader She's going to be reading starting off her homeschool year is president of the whole sixth grade So she's really really excited to start off this book right now. She's finishing up fast pitch So she will be able to start this book When we start our homeschool year. So hopefully she will enjoy this This author is the same author that wrote the sweetest sound which was one of her favorite books that she read last homeschooling year As far as her assigned reader that she's going to be doing with Oak Meadows English this week She is going to be using um or she's going to be reading maru of the winter caves So this is going to be her first Book that she's going to be doing in correlation with her literature and her ancient history So you guys as far as math goes again, I just went ahead and I scheduled out math you see zeta I wrote um 9a through 9g the thing about math you see is that um typically during a week The kiddos are just mastering it. So she may not be doing all of the lessons 9a through 9g It's just we work on the skill until she masters it So I just put this down right here, but I won't know what she actually does until she does it Um, I have the three lessons for oak meadow that she's going to be doing for uh rod and staff six Which is what we're on. I have us going on lessons 89 through 82 And then she's going to be doing the worksheets that correspond with it. So Um, I have the worksheets right here So for these ones, she's going to be doing a worksheet 52 53 54 and 55 with her rod and staff six And it goes with the lessons that we're going to be doing for her oak metal english again I have us doing our literature, which is maru the winter caves in the oak metals english It actually tells us how long she has to actually complete each of the literature readings And it told me that she has a total of Two weeks to complete um maru of the winter caves. So this book has a total of I believe How many chapters is in this book? It's a total of 16 chapters. So she has to complete um eight chapters within this week So I know each day of the week she can come in and just read about two chapters She may even read more. So that's how I went ahead and I broke down the reading So she will be able to have it completed When it actually is time for her to complete the um reading now as far as this first week goes when it comes to oak metals math It's really going to be a review for briel when it comes to The grammar that they're teaching they're going over um simple paragraphs and this week She's going over compound sentences complex sentences. She's also going to be going over um Paragraphs and how to write detailed sentences and things like that. So I know for briel This is just going to be a lesson where I'm just going to have her Briefly read over it and we will kind of do like a oral review of all of these skills and concepts and things Like that. Um, I definitely know it's going to be something where um, she can kind of just come in And we can kind of just get this first part done in like one day I mean, we're going over declarative interrogative Exclamatory and imperative sentences like I know she knows that stuff So this is definitely going to be something where we would just do like a oral review As far as the paragraph structure will kind of just go over, you know, how to write a You know paper and things like that even though she already knows that she learned that from iew Now as far as the assignments for this week, um, what briel is going to be doing is she is going to be Defining these words right here that goes along with her oak metals ancient history She has mammoth. She has spear. So prehistoric. So all of these words she's going to be Writing out the definition then she has to use them in sentences So each of these assignments has um, what she's going to be doing throughout the week and for this assignment or this week It's so light. I can foresee briel being able to do this oak metals english assignment pretty much in two days So I went ahead and I scheduled her to do her english portion in two days So monday and tuesday she probably will be finished with all of her english assignments and one thing that's cool about oak metal is that um It's you you kind of really don't know if one week is going to take you longer or shorter But as i'm looking in it, I see some of the weeks may be longer and shorter, but they do balance out So english is a lighter week because in her ancient history this week Briel is going to be writing two papers in ancient history, which is really really cool So I know she's going to be needing to write her two papers in here. So what I went ahead and did was um I have her assignment checklist right here in oak metal. So she is going to begin oak metal with her Reading so each week in the ancient history She has some form of reading that she's going to be doing and this is about the stone age so the reading is just But oh this is it. So the reading is just two pages So she probably will get done with the reading or two wait one two no it's four pages So one two three four is the reading so on the day one she probably would do the reading in her checklist And then on day two or day one She probably will begin to create her world map because she's actually going to have like a large scale of a world map So I know I need to write in my planner to buy briel a poster board for Her to do her world map. So i'm going to make sure I write that down somewhere So she's going to begin doing her world map. So on day one Of ancient history. She can probably do those things then on day two of ancient history She can come in and choose one of the assignments that she's going to be doing so here. Oh You guys I keep on flipping back too far So she's going to be able to choose one of the next assignments, which is right here She has an opportunity to choose which is the following topic. She wants to write a paper on Then she can choose one of the projects she wants to do for the week And then she gets to choose the activity so for our activity She actually already chose that she wants to do the cave painting activity And as far as the writing assignments, you guys, I know for sure briel will be able to do these writing assignments Really really simple writing is her strong point and when we come in on monday I will actually have her pick out whatever writing assignment. She wants to do so These assignments again are spread out throughout the week and as I get more comfortable with oak metal I will kind of see engage How fast or slow we go through a week and get through each of the assignments So uh because of that you guys I actually only have a scheduled only doing Ancient history in english this week Now as far as our fun activity that we're going to be doing We're going to be doing living art lessons on friday for uh briel and I went ahead and put it right here I actually hold on one second. Let me go grab it for you guys Okay, you guys here is living art and what i'm going to do is we're going to go ahead and just do this simple activity Right here. I actually have all the watercolors and I have the pastels for us to do the jellyfish lines So uh what i'm going to do is just uh mark this with a post it so I know that comes to this page on friday And this is the art activity that we're going to be doing so hopefully briel will enjoy it and um Yeah, so that's pretty much our first week of school So as you guys can see it's pretty much half the load. We're keeping it really really simple And that's how I have planned out for the first week Now um in my weekly plan again, I didn't actually write out anything I just have everything labeled so when we actually get through each assignment I can kind of like write out what we actually did and for the week overview for the next week I did the same exact thing where I wrote a plan and um Then I will actually write out what we actually do when we get there So um, I really won't know what we need to do for week two until we finish week one So again, I just have my goals and what I want us to accomplish And that is pretty much how I have my planner and my first two weeks like planned out for us to start off our home school year We're definitely doing a soft start and I'm kind of like easing us in as you guys can see It's no read aloud that we're starting off We're literally just starting off with the core and we're really going to get our feet wet using this new oak metals curriculum And um, I really really can't wait. I love the hands-on projects that briel is going to be doing first week And I hope she enjoys it too. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video as I planned out my sixth graders homeschooling curriculum I really hope that this video was really um Selling for you to kind of see how simple it is to map out your overview of your curriculum And how to break it down into bite-sized pieces. Um, you guys to really be honest I never was this uh thorough when it came to my plan and when I first started off my homeschooling journey However, now that I do have some more experience under my belt having more of a plan really puts me at ease And really having everything together really ensures us to have smooth and effective homeschooling days So you guys I really hope you enjoyed today's video and as always I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one Bye