Hey everybody, it's Brian and welcome to the 29th Qt Tutorial with C++. We're continuing our conversation on the Qthread class and what you see before you is the program we created in the last tutorial. So if you haven't watched that one, I'm going to real quickly go over this. We've got our main.cpp which we are including a mythread.h and we're just creating three versions of that thread as a name variable, so we're setting the name three times and starting it. And it's a very simple class. It just inherits Qthread and it overrides run. And when we go in here the run function simply prints out running with the name and then it prints out the name and the current number and it loops for a thousand times. Alright, so now that we've covered all that, let's talk about priority a little bit. Remember from our last conversation when I showed you Task Manager, each process had a certain priority. Well you can specify how you want these threads to run. So let's just take the first thread and we'll say Qthread and we'll say highest priority. So we're going to say thread one has the highest priority. So when the CPU is granting out time slices to not just this process but to each thread it's going to say thread one has the highest priority. And let's actually say thread three same thing. I want to show you what's going to happen here. So thread one and thread three have the highest priority. Thread two is just normal. So let's run this. And when our application runs, you notice how everything stops except for two. Two keeps going and going and going and going. Well, that's because remember we said thread one and thread three have the highest priority. So they're going to get more of the CPU's attention than thread two. So that is how priority works. And there are multiple levels of priority. There's highest, high, normal, low, inherited. So you could say lowest priority for thread three. And let's go over this real quickly. Thread one has the highest. Thread two has inherited which I believe is just normal for this process. And thread three has lowest. So it means thread three is just going to take a long time to execute in comparison to thread one and two. Compile and run. And you see sure enough thread three was the last one in the race here. So that's how priority works. It's actually a pretty simple concept, but you need to understand how and why you would need priority. For example, if you are doing a network communications you want that communication to just be rock solid, you would probably give that a higher priority. But typically in the real world, you don't mess around with priority that much. So this is Brian. Very short tutorial, but very important subject. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this video educational and entertaining.


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today. We have a very special announcement about a big breakthrough in our Automotive Great Linux platform. I won't spoil it, but just if you go over there around New, you'll hear some great news about H&L. And it's not just in the automotive sector. In cloud computing we have the Cloud Foundry Project, we have the Cloud Native Computing Initiative, which is led by the Kubernetes project. We're home to Node.js, which is the largest server-side JavaScript platform in the world. I think there's something like 15 million downloads a month of Node.js. We're home to the world's largest certificate authority, Lesson Crypt, which provides free certificates for anyone on the internet in order to make the internet more secure. We are home to some of the world's largest software-defined networking projects, projects like the OpenNetwork Automation Platform, which is being used to orchestrate the production infrastructure of over 40% of the world's mobile subscriber base, just an amazing project. So really you can see that the Linux Foundation has expanded beyond Linux, and more importantly open source in general has become a very, very important part of how technology gets created. And the good news is every day there's more and more open source available for everyone to consume. I think it's just amazing to think about the fact that just on GitHub there are 64 million open source repositories, 64 million, just think about that. 21 million developers are working on 64 million projects, and it keeps growing every day. The Apache Software Foundation is home to hundreds of projects, the Eclipse Foundation, hundreds of open source projects, and there are just so many open source projects out there, it is hard to even believe. But the key question that I think we all should think about at this event is not how much open source software is out there, but the real question is what open source projects really matter. What open source projects are really important to industry, important to society, important to government, and important to all of us. And when we looked at that, the Linux Foundation, what we find is that projects that have lots and lots of value that are widely deployed in mission critical infrastructure, they are not, out of those 64 million, it's a very, very small percentage. And so what we started asking ourselves at the Foundation is, what are the characteristics of those really most important open source projects? What is it about them that makes them different than the other 63 million projects that are out there? And the answer is open source projects with sustainable ecosystems are the projects that become most important to industry. And so think of it as a very simple formula. The most important open source projects out there are projects that start with really good code, that solves a really important problem. In the case of automotive grade Linux, the problem they're solving is how do you create an automotive software experience that heads up display the instrument cluster, the in-vehicle navigation and entertainment system, how do you create that for production vehicles that will be around for 20 years. In the case of Cloud Foundry, how do you create a global developer platform that can enable digital transformation for thousands and thousands of companies around? So you start a great code in a project that solves a big problem. And then organizations, whether it's companies or governments, use that code to create value. Value in the form of profit or in the case of governments, value in the form of maybe more transparency, maybe cost savings, but value nonetheless. And then that value is in turn reinvested back into the project which gets more code, which gets more value for products and services based on that code, which gets more reinvestment and you see that creates a long-term sustainable open source project. It looks like this, where projects become products, create profit that is then reinvested back into the project itself. And one of the other characteristics that we see in the most important open source projects in the world is that they need to be in a place, they need a set of infrastructure that enables thousands of developers, hundreds of companies to come together and co-create software in a place where they can trust each other. And that's really what foundations enable. Foundations enable projects to create big communities to solve hard problems, enable organizations to trust that code, to trust that it's in a safe place so they can create products that create profit and so on and so forth. This is the fundamental idea of what foundations like the Linux Foundation or many other open source foundations really do. And creating sustainability requires real work, work that we at the Linux Foundation are hard at work at every single day. You need an organization that can hold the assets of the development process, the trademark, don't manage the copyright, you can have them manage the development process. You need a development process itself, a way for developers and organizations to make technical decisions. You need infrastructure to be able to co-create, whether it's testing infrastructure or legal infrastructure, you need this to co-create. You need to be able to grow an ecosystem. It turns out in open source marketing matters, you need a way to promote your project to get more developers and more organizations working on it and creating products based on that project in order to get that reinforcement to happen. And finally you need legal management because essentially software creation is the sharing of intellectual property. And you need a safe and orderly way to manage that intellectual property in a trusted environment, whether it's managing the copyright, whether it's licensing a trademark in exchange for some sort of compliance program or so forth. You need all of these things in order to really achieve large scale impact as an open source project. And that's really what the Linux Foundation is able to do. And so the final question I think about what really makes important open source projects is to sort of think about what the future of open source looks like and put it in that context. And you know, when they look forward five years from now, ten years from now, the question is not only about open source projects matter, but will open source matter in the future? Or maybe we'll go back to proprietary software or maybe everything will shift to a different model. And what we see at the Linux Foundation is that open source is really becoming a permanent part of modern technology development and modern software development. And it's mainly due to three big megatrends. And those trends were, I think, first identified by Tim O'Reilly a few years ago, but have really come together just in the last few years. And those three big trends are first the commoditization of IT and software technology. A good example of this is in the networking sector, where things that were previously sold as hardware appliances in networking are now being essentially created and abstracted into software and delivered as virtual networking solution, network function, virtualization, software defined networking. And that software is being delivered on commodity white box hardware in many cases. So that commoditization is creating tremendous change in the IT sector. And remember that change creates big opportunities. The second big megatrend that we're seeing in addition to commoditization of IT is mass collaboration. And really the Linux Foundation is at the center of this and so we understand this very, very well. Not only has the industry and society realized that open source development is a faster, better, cheaper way to deliver software, but what we did not expect is that software developers themselves would be incredibly motivated to use this form of development. That for many software developers, open source is more than just a job. Developing open source is something that they love to do in order to solve big problems, in order to increase their reputation amongst their peers, and in order to just simply have fun in the act of solving hard problems together. This was something that wasn't really apparent in the early days of open source, but now many, many years later this is something that is creating a further faster trend in terms of how software is developed because you have incredibly motivated software developers in these open source communities. So the commoditization combined with collaboration are really important, but the third important megatrend that's making open source the standard way of developing software is really the advent of cloud computing or software as a service. And this is incredibly important because the very nature of the technology industry is shifting from a product industry where you sell this hardware or license a piece of software to a service industry, where software and hardware are just part of the bill of materials, part of the cost of delivering a service. Whether it's on Amazon or Google or Microsoft's cloud, what's really happened here is that software has moved from the profit side of the accounting ledger to the cost side of the accounting ledger. And when you move from profit to cost, the software that is free is going to win every single time. And those are the big trends that matter here. It's this combination of commoditization, collaboration and cloud that really make open source the finding way to deliver software. And that is only accelerating as we move faster and faster towards these trends for the next five to ten years portion. So open source is definitely here to stay. It's important for all of you to understand that. And in open source, the projects that have the most value to your company, to your industry, to your career are those that have sustainability assistance. This week we are going to see dozens and dozens of open source projects that fit that description. And I hope you will take the opportunity to talk with the core developers who are creating this code to speak with the leaders who are helping to manage these projects. They're all here in Japan and we're very excited to be here with all of you. Thank you very much. Our next keynote session will be a panel discussion on cloud 8 computing. So we will be discussing about how projects like Kubernetes, Fluent, Open Dressing and LinkedIn actually shape and help shaping modern infrastructure. The moderator of this session is Chris Anizet, CEO of the Cloud 8 Computing Foundation. So please welcome Chris and Chris will be joining us. My name is Chris Anizet. I'm the CEO of the Cloud 8 Computing Foundation. I was kind of there from the beginning. I was also founding Secretary Brecker and kind of been with the Foundation since inception. Today's panel is all around kind of cloud-native technology, what is clouding to mean and kind of hears and voices from different projects and interleaders. So first off to my left, we have a kind of brought up from Microsoft. Nice to meet you. Ian Lewis from Google. Hi. I'm Eduardo Silla from Trader Data in the Fluent D project. So I kind of kicked things off. I wish I had a little trigger on there. So I'll give a little bit of history of CNCF. So, you know, CNCF was formed in December 2015. It was kind of when we first officially kicked things off. And kind of I'll give you some of the background of history that so a lot of people are aware that Google outsourced Kubernetes, just kind of as key orchestration technology. And at the time they approached the Linux Foundation to kind of build a home, a neutral home for Kubernetes. And you know, some of the initial discussions were, well, you know, do we just want to kind of build a Kubernetes foundation or do we kind of build, you know, build something more than just that. So originally, you know, we decided to focus on the whole notion of cloud-native computing, which essentially all cloud-native computing means is you have services, microservices, whatever you want to call them, running containers that are orchestrated by some central process. That's all cloud-native computing means. So orchestration is just a bit of that. And so when we're forming CNCF, we realize that, you know, yes, Kubernetes is kind of the same project and one of our most important projects. But there's a whole other slew of technologies around monitoring, tracing, logging, and so on that will kind of come into the foundation to kind of make up the whole concept of cloud-native computing. And so that's kind of where we are today. Just a couple of weeks ago, we announced our 10th project to join the foundation called Container Network Interface of CNI for short. And so we've kind of grown over the, you know, over 18 months that we've been...


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. It's time to get on board the Orient Express and head on over to the 2015 Japanese Garden Fall Festival. This event has something for everyone in the family, whether you're interested in origami, calligraphy, or swordsmanship. You'll think you're turning Japanese. I really think so. Don't know what we got. The Fall Festival in the Japanese Garden is a cultural event sponsored by the Fort Botanic Garden for everyone to share in the Japanese culture. So we will have taiko drummers, we will have Sakura dancers, we will have a swordsmanship demonstration, we will have Japanese food, American food, we will have martial arts demonstrations. There will be a lady that will be sitting by one of the ponds and she will be playing the koto. There will be a lot of different kinds of opportunities for entertainment and activities. We have had children's crafts. There will be an opportunity to learn to do some Japanese calligraphy. There will be people here to teach how to do the origamis and to fold a crane. We have a brand new feature and it is a craft and so children and adults alike will be able to fashion a kite, a carp kite to take home with you. Dressing up in costume is optional. If you have any kind of Japanese culture, either modern Japanese or older Japanese culture and clothes that you would like to wear, we welcome you and we would even put you in pictures and have you there for next year and next spring's festival. For more information about the Fall Festival in the Japanese Garden, visit www.fwjg.org. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.


what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video now a couple of months ago it was rumored that going into the year two of destiny that the taking king was going to be the last main DLC and we would be getting events drop every month also a lot like the sparrow racing league ones which are free to everyone to play and take part in but you had the option to spend and use real-life money to purchase in-game items i.e. micro transactions you may remember a few videos I did talking about this quite a while back and now it seems to be the case we would not be seeing any new DLCs in this year too of destiny instead we will be getting special events such as the Halloween event and the sparrow racing league this was confirmed over the weekend by bungee designer Derek Carroll who stated this with the taking king we are moving towards a more event-based model things like festival of the last and sparrow racing which is our winter event and then smaller events such as iron banner and the trials of a Cyrus every weekend rather than doing these giant monolithic DLC packs this way everybody who owns the taking king can enjoy these things Eurogamer also asked would there be anything you need to buy to access Carol replied we've had festival of the last and sparrow racing both events are open to all players with only cosmetic items purchasable via real-world money if you wanted to extra polite from there you could and the reason this is happening is because of the technology deficiencies among other issues it would be near impossible for bungee's developers to create enough new content for both DLC packs we would expect in year 2 and the next expansion to destiny which is obviously destiny 2 which I'm guessing will be out later next year now although I am a little gutted about them not being any new DLC stories coming or raids as it seems it makes for a better game in destiny 2 and I fully support bungee's decision to do this I know most would not agree with that but at the end of the day it would make destiny 2 worth the wait I mean them spending all their time creating content for destiny in terms of DLC expansions would no doubt equal in destiny 2 being a lackluster like many people thought destiny 1 was on release for sure it could be a dry wait for this destiny 2 for those of us who are still playing destiny 1 on a daily basis but hey we don't know what events they have planned and going by the sparrow racing league event I'm quite optimistic now there's always two sides in what the destiny community's point of view is those who say we need more DLC on a regular basis as there ain't enough content in each and there are those who complain about DLC due to its price and not worth it the way it seems is bungee trying to keep both on side by releasing events more often which are free to play this way we are kept happier more often and fall bored less quickly for sure I'd much prefer new DLC in terms of strikes raids and story as often as bungee plan to drop these three events but being realistic that's impossible for bungee to do really is and although many people see bungee as a massive robot shitting new content and ideas that just ain't the case they are a group of people working for what's best for both of them their game and for us it's just bungee are creating what should and I believe will be an incredible game in destiny 2 and like I said if we want an amazing follow-up to the game we've all fell in love with sacrifices will have to be made and unfortunately them sacrifices are year 2 DLCs as it seems hopefully the events bungee have planned are worth for both us and them though as if they get things wrong they could lose a massive chunk of the player base they have and if destiny 2 is what I believe they did confirm it would be a while back a game where you and your characters progress golf through into destiny 2 they will need to keep as many people on board as possible and to do that these events need to be more of a variety than just racing sparrows and collecting candy but I'm sure bungee have some great ideas set in place which I'm sure we will certainly find out about real soon but guys that's the end of the video let me know what you think about this down below in that comments section thanks for stopping by as always do drop a like I do appreciate the support subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you guys on the next one peace out till next time


Hello and welcome to this video about when are conditional statements true? This is a follow up to an important idea from the last video about whether a conditional statement is quote unquote honest or not. Let's go back to a simple example from that video which is a conditional statement or a kind of promise that I might make to my kids. If you finish your dinner then you can play outside. The hypothesis here is you finish your dinner and the conclusion is you can play outside. Now what you should notice here is that the statement is actually a statement in the mathematical sense. It's a declarative sentence that is definitely true or false but not both. It is a contract or a promise that I give to my kids and I'm either telling the truth when I make it or not. What we want to do in this video is understand how to know if I am telling the truth when I am making a claim like this. So let's first look at it from the sinister sort of back door side of everything. So under what conditions would I be lying not telling the truth or telling a falsehood when I make this statement. Let me give this to you as an early concept check. So the statement again is if you finish your dinner then you can play outside. So the question, how would you know if I am lying or not? When my kids finish dinner and are allowed to play outside? When my kids finish dinner but are not allowed to play outside? When the kids don't finish dinner but are allowed to play outside? When the kids don't finish dinner and are not allowed to play outside? Both B and C or both B and D? This is kind of a tricky one. So pause the video for a minute and think about the answer that's most correct. Okay, so the answer here is counterintuitive to a lot of people at first. But if we think about it, it will make sense. The answer here is B only. The statement, my promise, is shown to be false or a lie. Only when my kids do finish dinner but are not allowed to play outside. In all other cases, the promise is true. Now that may surprise you, so let's unpack this result. Let's go down one by one through each of these four options here at the front of this statement and see what happens. First of all, it's pretty clear that if A happens, the kids finish dinner and are allowed to play outside, then my promise is true. The kids met the hypothesis condition and the conclusion that I guarantee would follow actually does follow. So I'm telling the truth in that situation. And I think just as clearly if B happens, then my promise is false. Because I claim that if the hypothesis is met, then the conclusion is guaranteed to follow. Well, under these conditions, my kids satisfied the hypothesis, but the conclusion did not follow, so my guarantee was just a bust. So it's clear that in situation B, my conditional statement was not true. And when something's not true, we mean that it's false. So what about C and D? Let's go with D first. Now, in this situation, the hypothesis was not met and the conclusion did not happen, and that seems logically consistent. My conditional statement makes a claim as to what happens if the hypothesis is met, and so it doesn't seem wrong to tell my kids they can't play outside if they don't finish their dinner. So in this case, my original statement or promise is definitely not false. And when something's not false, we mean that it's true. Situation C is the hardest to understand. Here, the kids have failed to satisfy the condition of finishing their dinner. But I let them play outside anyway. Does this mean that my original promise was a lie? Well, actually, it doesn't mean that. My original promise was based on something happening if the hypothesis condition was met. It didn't say what would happen if the hypothesis condition was not met. So if the hypothesis condition is not met, then no matter what happens, you can't logically come back to me and say that my original statement was a lie. If the hypothesis isn't met, what I do with my kids isn't constrained by anything. I can let them play outside if I feel generous, or I can say no. Either way, my original promise stands because it tells what happens if they do eat their dinner, but leaves me completely free to do what I want if they don't. So let's do another concept check to see how well you understand this idea. Consider this statement. If it is cold outside, I will put on my gloves. So under what condition or conditions is the statement false? When it's cold outside and I don't put on my gloves? When it's not cold outside, but I put my gloves on anyway? When it's not cold outside and I do put on my gloves? Just A and B or all the above? So as we've seen in the previous example, the only situation in which a conditional statement is false is when the hypothesis is met or is true. But the conclusion is false, meaning that it doesn't follow. The hypothesis here is it is cold outside. And the conclusion is I will put on my gloves. So the only case here where the promise is false is when it's cold outside, but I do not do as I said I would do. That is I don't put on my gloves and that's option A. That's the correct answer here. In the other two options, the hypothesis is not met. So I'm not constrained by my statement. I can do whatever I want with my gloves because I didn't say what I would do if it were not cold outside. Maybe I just like wearing gloves and I can wear them whatever the temperature is. So this is a pretty major concept. And if you understand that, you're well on your way to understanding a lot of theoretical math, actually. The main takeaway from this lesson just to wrap up is that a conditional statement is always true except in one situation. And that one situation is when the hypothesis is met, the hypothesis is true, but the conclusion is not met. The conclusion is false. In the next video, we'll talk about a handy way to encapsulate the truth value of a complex statement like this called a truth table. So stay tuned and thanks for watching.


Other changes that we have made for user experience are in the TI dashboard. So if you can see, this is the track entity instance dashboard. And in the old app, it looked like this that you're going to see in a minute. So this is the previous version, you can see here that this is the button to open the attributes, the details of the track entity instance. And this is a button that is used to share the TI using QR codes. So this functionality is widely used, it's very common to edit the details of your track entity instance, but sharing the track entity instance is not that common. But we had it here in the middle of the screen. So the way this works now, and this is the actual login that I wanted to make before, we have given all the space to the open, and we have included the track entity type name in the button to make it more intuitive. So open Malaria entity details, and we have moved the share to a secondary menu because it's less used. Another change here is the new event button always visible. So in the previous version of the app to create an event, for example here, you had to open so that the users see how many events are already there and then create. So this was two clicks to create an event because we wanted to make sure that they can see the list of previous events, not to create stages if they are not required. However, those two clicks were not... We got some feedback that we could improve that. And then what happens now is that if you already have events, the option to create the events is there. Because before, if you are in this screen, it's not clear that you can actually create an event by pushing here, it's hidden. You cannot see the icon. So the icon is always exposed. But now when you click, if there are events, we expand and we show you the events. But with one click, you see the events and you can create a new event. So that's the change mainly.


passive income What's up money geeks mr. V here welcome to another video guys So into this video I'm gonna take a look at my dividend portfolio. I'm gonna take a look and see Where things are I think the last time I did an update of my portfolio of my specific dividend portfolio I think that was back in February so we have March we have April we have May I haven't had time to actually do Update on the portfolio because I've been like shopping and trying to build a portfolio or moving stuff around and just trying to add more Stocks into that portfolio. So and within that period March specifically when we had that crash. I was so busy Just researching and trying to find more stocks that I can add into so I haven't had a time to really do an update But the good news is that during that period we've been getting some dividends So I'm gonna take a look at how much we have been making in dividends during that period So before we get started guys, if you're new to the channel, we talk about how to earn money How to save money how to invest and build wealth So if there's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell to you Don't miss out a new content. So before I really go deep and really show you guys my dividend portfolio I want to just kind of break down something here When I started building this portfolio back in January my goal was to get this portfolio to maybe about a hundred thousand dollars So that I can get maybe three to five thousand dollars a year Individend no income But then as when I started building it I realized that I don't just want three to five thousand dollars a year in dividend income That's not good enough for me So I have my goal now is to get this account if possible to a million dollars so that I can get say 50,000 or 60,000 dollars a year in dividend income. This is crazy So if you get a million dollars, you can just sit back every year you're getting 50 to 60,000 dollars all just Individend not in not including the growth Which is crazy. So my now I'm actually shifting my mindset from a hundred thousand dollars inside targeting Maybe a million dollars. I know what I'm a long ways from a million dollars But guess what it's attached with baby steps And so here's my advice to you out there that is getting into the stock market is trying to invest If you are looking at starting to invest and you want to be what I call a dividend investor If you're younger, let's say 18 19 20 21 up to about 25. This is a very good Time for you to get into the market a very good opportunity for you to stop building that wealth It's easier for you when you're younger just that putting money away because you have a whole amount of long amount of time for that money to grow Compared to somebody that's in your 30s or your 40s or your 50s So the order you get the harder it is for you to actually enjoy the growth in the market Because the stock market is it's in my opinion really depends on what I'll call time For people that are just average investors I'm not talking about day traders and stuff like that because they're doing on a daily basis how to get your money But for you if you're investing Time horizon is the thing that matters to you So you want to start early and stop putting that money So if you're 18 and you're putting just let's say a hundred dollars a month by the time you retire at 60 You should have at least a million dollars in your account in that one account only in that just from putting a $100 a month. So if you are looking at starting a younger, please Keep the effort number one make sure you get started number two be consistent Number three pick good stocks good dividend paying or growth stocks and put your money into those and just sit back and relax If you don't have the time to do research on individual stocks Definitely choose some really good index funds that pay Dividends or ETFs that pay dividends and stick with them and that definitely not being in the market is worse Than being in the market and not putting a ton of money So for the people that have started you are on the right track Just keep it consistent and keep putting that money in there and you're gonna see it Your life is gonna be a lot easier when you go you turn the 45 50 because you're gonna have a chunk of money Setting in there Let's just grow it and if you do what I call drip that dividend Reinvestment plan that it's even better. So when they pay your dividends when you're younger, you're not catching out those dividends You're reinvesting the dividends into the account that compounding Effect would definitely really help you grow. So I just want to put that out there And also if you are looking for dividend stocks that you want to invest into and you're struggling Just let me know in the comment section. I'm gonna put I have a less of about 60 Dividend aristocrats. So aristocrat dividends are stocks that have paid and increased their dividend payout for 25 consecutive years So those are really companies that you can't really go wrong with if you want me to share that with you Definitely, let me know in the comment section. I might put it up on my blog So you can download it there and use it and maybe that can help you so all right So let's jump into our the computer here and actually take a look at my dividend portfolio and see what's been happening So let's go. All right guys. So in my portfolio As you can see we're currently sitting at close to about 28,000 dollars Because of the virus and everything that account is currently not where it's supposed to be in my opinion so $1,500 in terms of gains and maybe about 15 percent, which is awesome So if I look up here so far Market gain is 1100 Dividend and is 327 dollars as of January. That's pretty good money And then so my goal again, like I said is to put money money in here. Just let it grow so Different in a sectors that I have in my pie is I have industry I have healthcare of technology real estate travel energy consumer stables telecommunication Financier the lunch money. That's not a sector. That's my as my own personal sector that created So I could whatever the gains that come out of that I use that for my own personal needs if I have to buy new headphones and stuff like that I'll pull money out of that and then food and drinks. That's another sector that I have so You probably Looking at hey, mr. V. Can you open those different sectors so that I can see what you have if you're looking for that? Again, I'll put the link in the description below You can go to my blog and you'll see all that information you see all the stocks that I own I think is about 50 stocks in in all these different sectors so go there and definitely check it out The purpose of this particular video today is just to show my dividend income So let's go and take a look at what has been happening. So I have to select here. I just want dividends So that's gonna show us the dividends that we've had here for the past three months and Specifically, I want to focus on Let's do a date range. So let's start with I want to do let's do all Let's do three dash 01 dash 2020 and then We do three I think three dash Um 30 dash 2020 All right. So in March We had No, oh, let's see. Oh Sorry All right. So in March, we had dividends from My five different our stocks. So LTC properties AV GO Gillette and then IBM and IGNC a lot of you guys probably know about IGNC, which is kind of like a This investment trust and they pay really good dividends. I like them So if we look at that so in March, we add this up. I think we made a Toter of about $26 and some change which is not bad Not bad for just putting your money there and watching it grow So that's that's pretty good twenty six dollars and some change. So let's see what we did in in April So we'll change that to four and then changes to Four as well and then This should be 30 All right. So in April As you can see HP Merck Seagate a GNC. Oh, and here's the thing though a GNC is a monthly dividend pair, which I love If you pay monthly dividends sign me on I love monthly dividend So that's why you saw them in March to pay dividends and then in April to pay dividends We'll see them again in May paying paying awesome dividend. So these are the companies that paid me dividends in In April and so in April we summed that total thing. I made about $47 if you just add this up about seven forty seven dollars and some change. That's not bad. So that total so $47 and again that is doing This covert thing which most of these companies either some of them either cut back on your dividends or some don't even pay dividends Just because they're trying to save money to stay afloat during the covert thing. So Let's see what we have in May. So go to five And this would go to five. Oh, sorry. That's five here and Let's see may 31st. I know it's not the 31st. Let's see what okay. So may So if we go all the way to May 31st, this is what we've got as dividends so if you add all this up a thing we made about $70 and some change and Abba here is our biggest payout of $27 and 97 cents, which is awesome That is good dividends and I'm thinking boy and if you see a agency here $9 and some change so Like I said, I love agency just for how much they pay in dividends It's a it's a pretty cheap stock and that's a funny thing. It's not even an expensive stock so definitely If you don't have them your portfolio, you should consider as far as that monthly dividend go so So just for the last three months if we add those that know the last three months We're looking somewhere at about so 70 plus 40 That's 110 Plus 26 so looking at 140 Close to about 150 Those three months and again guys, this is just dividends Here's how I want you to approach this in your mindset should focus doing this covert thing because I've actually Hear a lot of people on the channel complaining that oh All that company has cut their dividends. So I'm not gonna invest in it I was like, okay If you if you don't want to invest the dividend paying company because they cut their dividends during the virus I don't understand what the issue is if a stock goes from $50 and it drops to $10 And you buy that stock at $10 if they're not paying you any dividends You know for sure that you that the dividends is that you you're missing out on is gonna be covered by the growth That you're gonna get so that's that moves back from $10 to say $40 or $50 look at how much growth you've got So that grew to make up for that dividends until they reinstate their dividends and then you're back on track so again, that's some a question I get from a lot of people and some people come out and And and talk and like if they're trying to sound smart like oh that company has stopped paying dividends So I'm like so what does that mean? I shouldn't invest in that company anymore because it stopped paying dividends That's not the case. So it basically I Okay, if you look at just just so you guys see what I'm talking here If you look up the name of my portfolio here, it's actually say growth and income So the growth path is I'm buying stocks that are on the value Hoping that they would grow at the same time I'm buying on the value stocks that are dividend paying stocks So I'll get my growth from these to find that the stocks are on the value Then I'll get my income from the fact that they're paying dividends like what we're talking about right now So cash on hand right now of $21, which I'm gonna put back in the market tomorrow Or as soon as the market opens Yeah, I hate sitting on cash like that. I need to deploy that cash and just just get it working So that's it and that's my portfolio and again guys I keep adding as soon as I get my monthly paycheck. I keep adding more to this position And just trying to grow it and reinvesting all the dividends. I'm getting into the portfolio just so that it keeps growing and hopefully Get to the goal of a hundred thousand dollars as soon as possible And then we said the next goal that I've said again is a million dollars. So let's go That's it guys. So question of the day. What do you think about the portfolio? Do you invest in dividends? One of the things that I wanted to mention to you guys And I'm gonna say this at the very end of the video. It's just a simple fact that Right now. I'm using M1 for my dividend portfolio Eventually, I would have to switch from M1 to Webull And I'm gonna do a separate video to kind of explain to you guys why I'm going that route I'm gonna move all these these I know M1 looks nice and has all those those pies that I enjoy But I'm gonna move all my asset to Webull For some important reason and I'm pretty sure once I explain the reason to you guys You guys gonna want to do it as well. So I'm again, if you are interested in, you know, opening a Webull account I'm gonna put a link in the description below if you open an account today Or using that link you get two stacks not one but two So the first stock would value from like I think three dollars to two hundred and fifty dollars And then your second stock would go from twelve dollars to fifteen hundred dollars. So definitely Click that link check them out and take advantage and get some free stocks guys Again, free is free and if you don't even want to use Webull Go get the free stocks and move them over to whichever platform that you you like the best again guys If you're new to the channel we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build Worth so if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and your notification bell So you don't miss out a new content and as always guys Stay motivated


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We again hope to keep you in Suspense on this rainy afternoon. We should like you to meet the Prince's family and their visitor They are of course at home Mrs. Prince's daughter Millicent George the son and air sprawled on a couch and finally Mr. Prince fighting on a dry pipe their living room is dull and overstuffed Rain beats at the windows. They are any middle-class family at home on a wet day Except for one small item as you sit with them in the living room You can see through the door to the Sun porch a pair of men's feet encased in high black shoes They look like the feet of a cure There is a tenseness in the room the air is charged with excitement But the feet are very still don't keep staring at and listen to me all of you Don't you see they'd hang out. That's what they do. They'd hang out. Oh friend. It's too awful. It's catastrophic The supposedly sweet gentle intelligent girl respected and loved by the whole village doing a thing like this Think of the publicity and the disgrace Do you think I'm going to resign from the bench the vestry and sell out and live in some foggy hotel abroad?   You might be of a little use here if you could think Oh, but I say governor this this isn't my funeral As long as I can remember George, you've been a trial and tribulation to me. Oh, I can't stand it I can't stand it. You've got to stand it my dear and keep that hysterical note out of your voice dear. Yes We are we're talking about the weather Now George. Yeah George if he fell down the old well say striking his head several times. What about that? Hmm. I really don't know what about it.  I'm asking you to think He'd have had to hit the side several times in 30 or 40 feet with all the correct angles. No Oh, we'll have to go over it all again Millicent. Oh, no No, I couldn't I couldn't Millicent We must go over it all again. Yeah, you're torturing her Face facts mate it with him lying there. No use pretending. It's a picnic. You might hang you Millicent. Oh, do stop that shaking Stop it Millicent. Stop it. You must stop it. You must keep your voice quiet Millicent We are talking about the weather Now we will proceed. I can't. I can't not with those feet there You should have thought of that Millie. I'm not moving her.  Do you hear answer me? You're in the croaky court. Yes, you know who knew you were in love with this wretched cure The whole village knows they've been snigering about it in the pub for the three years.  Yes, you're putting the croaky set into its box Yes, it it was starting to rain. I was carrying the balls and mallets into the Sun porch The box was there. You heard someone enter the garden gate and come across the yard. Yes Could you see who it was not at first? I was going into the Sun porch I threw down all the mallets, but the red one and turned around and it was withers. Yes, so you called him. Yes loudly Did you call him loudly could anyone have heard? No father. I'm sure not. I didn't really call him. I just spoke his name He saw me as I went to the dawn. He just waved his hand and came over. Can I find out from you whether there was anyone about? Whether he could have been seen. I'm sure not father. I'm quite sure. So you both went into the Sun porch. Yes It was raining hard there. What did he say? He said Hello Millie and excuses coming in the back way, but he set out to walk over to listen Yes, and he said passing the park. He'd seen the house and suddenly thought of me He thought he'd just look in for a minute He had something to tell me go on. He said he was so happy. He wanted me to share it He'd heard from the bishop. He was to have vicarage and it wasn't only that It meant he could marry and he began to stutter and get all confused and Because I thought it meant me. Don't tell me what you thought tell me exactly what he said nothing else It's a luxury you can no longer afford tell me what happened No, he said it wasn't me It's Ella bragged in Davis and he was sorry and all that Then he went to go and then I Got mad He turned his back. I had the red mallet of the croak. He said in my hand I'd forgot to drop it in the box when I came and I was just did you shout or scream I mean as you hit him No, I'm sure I didn't did he Come on speak up.  No father and then I Threw it down. I came straight in here.  I had no idea George. Will you keep quiet? I'm thinking You see George He probably told people who was going to listen certainly no no one knows he came here for he didn't decide until he crossed the park He might have been attacked in the woods. We must consider every detail Curit with his head better than oh, don't bother now.  Who'd want to kill with those? Well, I would with pleasure. How do you do miss? Well, well, well, well sit down sit down pray you mustn't get up for me miss. Princess. You are the militant my work I'm just being naively on a bad day. I wanted to ask you about those dahlia bulbs, Princess I took a short cut on the count of the rain and walked right in I knew you wouldn't mind He heard you father.  Don't you pretend to be shocked? This way small it the this chair facing the fireplace old man sit down Just straighten the curtain to the sun porch here.  I should be a proper laughing stock Why should you be a proper laughing stock? Oh, I had a shot in that direction myself She half said yes, too. Haven't you heard told most people? Now I'll look as if I were jilted too bad Fortune of war. Yes fortune of war I'll have that happens isn't it? Yeah, sit down small as old man Mother Millicent would you console Captain Smollett with your best light conversation? George and I have something to look at outside the rain, you know very bad very bad come along George I don't know give it perhaps we'll need raincoat. I don't think so George. Just make yourself at home Cigarette to Captain Smollett. Oh, thank you. Thank you Nasty day to be going out. Oh, it's something about the old well Just off the Sun porch door, you know this terrible sudden weather seems to have loosened some of the stones too bad Too dash bad spoils the tennis in the croquet. I mean a day like this Doesn't it Millie? Yes, it does. She was practicing out on the croquet court earlier But do pull your chair near of the fire captain. It was so damp. We thought it would be cozy to light it Thank you. I'm quite comfortable. I I hope you don't feel too bad about Ella bragged and Davis Can't always win, you know Can't understand that what you women see in these bloodless clerics. Oh, I always thought mr. Withers was a Is a very charming man. I quite agree. But why should anyone want to marry him? You wouldn't want to marry him. Would you millie? Not now? That is I I used to Yes, good lord, man, you will come on Mind this old double barrel shotgun. Do you smart? I've been working on it, sir May might I have your attention for a minute? There's something on the Sun porch. I'd like to show you. Oh, uh, yes, yes, of course Smell it George and I went out to see if we could shoot some rats Which have been driven out of the old well by the high water. We're afraid they might get into the house But you must listen to me very carefully very carefully.   Good lord.  I I suppose I should therefore you constitute a problem Why did she kill him? It's one of those disgusting things Pityable too. I think She deluded herself that he was in love with her good heavens Miller yes, yes, of course. I see he told her about the Davis Ella Braggton Davis. I understand I have no wish as you will comprehend that she should be proved either a lunatic or a murderous I could hardly go on living here after that could I miss I had done rather fond of millie quite On the other hand you know about it. Yes. I see that makes me a problem You were wondering if I could keep my mouth shut If I promise I'm wondering if I could believe you but if I promised if things went smoothly Yes, but not if there was any sort of suspicion or any questioning You would be afraid of being an accessory. I don't know I do What are we going to do? I can't see anything else.  Well, I regard it as a better risk than the other It could be an accident Or you and withers could both disappear. There are possibilities in that Listen, you you can't you I uh, I can But there may be a way out. There is small it's you gave it to me yourself. I I did what? Well, you said you would kill Withers you have a motive. Oh look here now. I was Small it. I can't trust you You must trust me Or else I would kill you now in the next minute I mean that You can choose between living and dying no one There's the old well just outside the sun porch door. That's what I'm going to put with us No one outside knows he's come up here this afternoon.  I I see What evidence George?  Look what your teeth did to my knuckle. Do it again, George How can you keep quietly stop sniveling? I'm sorry small it But there must be traces of a struggle between you and withers Then it will be not altogether safe for you to go to the police Now George, uh, would you get the croaky mallet? And uh, George take a handkerchief to it. You'll find it there on the sun porch floor Oh, yeah, yeah, I got the camera. That's right boy.  Oh boy. That's right Now deposit it by the side of the house Out of the rain, of course now wait, uh, George First you'd better pull a few hairs out of his head and put them under the nail of withers right hand I'm sorry to mess your hair up captain Don't be a baby That's all we need and now for withers and we'll fix it right up. I'll be right with you governor Uh smullet You may turn round now Withers is just there in the sun porch draw back the curtain old man Good lord Yes messy Now you smullet now you've just got to drag him through the door and dump him in the old well Just beyond the door captain. I Won't touch him. I won't all right all right stand aside george out of range george just over there There's only one place I want this charge of shot to go to Now milley you keep quiet and stop sniveling my aim is That's better that's better smullet much better I go along now In here You've got to take him outside. Oh boy.    I'll just hold the gun here to make sure everything goes all right steady now Come away from the window dear. Don't look but captain smaller your father is a very resourceful man Millicent. I'm sure what he's doing is a I can't stand you wasn't questioning your dear father Hey, you two still had it. There's enough trouble around here without blabbering.  They'll never look in our well Don't you see how safe it is? I guess so good heavens. Oh boy. You're dripping wet. Why don't you slip your rain coat on Is the uh tea ready dear in just a minute dear. I'll ring for bridget It's exactly what you need smollet a nice hot cup of tea. It's the best thing in the world to ward off a cold Sit down. Aren't you old man? Oh, don't you mind getting the chair where that's all right? Uh, would you have a cigarette? Oh, no, I hope so for a boy See I stick to my pipe funny how you get attached to my wife always says to me everything's hot, ma'am Oh bridget.  Why how dreadful here bridget give the captain this cup. No, no, no, thank you. I I'd rather think I'll be running along if you don't mind my captain smollet without any tea If you don't mind mrs. Princy. I if I could uh Just have my raincoat. Oh, I'll get it for you camp. This is very distressing smollet very I'll be all right presently. I'm sure. Oh, here we are. Let me help you sir. Thank you A young man There you better go out the front way smollet. The walk is dry. Oh, let me hold the door for you camp And don't worry old fella. Don't worry at all. No, no, no, I I'm It's uh, nothing serious. I imagine dear a little rest of course. He'll be as right as rain. Oh, by the way Millison you're not you're not looking any too well, dear not well at all I'm sure it was that croaky court being outdoors in weather like this is simply foolhardy Mate is right mary. You saw what happened to captain smollet. Come along dear I shall give you a hot foot bath and put you to bed a couple of days in bed and you'll be fine again You'll get plenty of rest Millison and don't you worry about a thing. That's the best cure for you, dear I'll get all of a little nap too. Do you have nap? Fine off now for a nap. Yes, it is nice Indeed it is, Sam. Well, enjoy yourself boy. I'll see you later. I'll see you all later Would you get me the police station? Police station? Police headquarters. Oh, hello sergeant. This is princy of abbot's road. I believe you know me Oh, indeed I do mr. Princy sergeant a rather horrible thing has just occurred quite extraordinary. It's murder in fact Murder? I'm afraid it looks rather bad. Well For a close friend of ours. Unfortunately, we saw him do it. I think you'd better send someone over right away Man should be there right about now mr. Princy I beg your pardon. I say our man should be there now Constable Martin has his post right below your house. They're just wrang in seems captain smollet was with him Captain smollet. He reported some rather queer goings on at your place But I certainly didn't understand it was murder But just don't touch anything mr. Princy and don't worry. Don't worry at all No, oh no, no, no sergeant Don't worry, thank you I'm right here and stop shouting We we have some visitors governor. I can see that Well, constable Good afternoon Hello smollet See what a remarkable fellow you are coming back like this Here to reenact the crime only the one against me princy the one against the curate. I'll leave to you people Extraordinary sense of humor you have mr. Princy. I just had a look at what's in your well Not a pretty sight that not pretty at all. Yes captain smollet was thorough if nothing else You saw him when he did it sir out in the back. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh quite We were just returning from a walk and smollet has evidently been laying for the curate hiding out in those bushes by the road I imagine he was never inside this house Never And you say captain. I say that while I was inside this house a guest of the family I was coerced into dragging the curate's body outside and Dumping it in the world. Well, there we are. Well, not entirely constable I'll just remove my wrinkled here and demonstrate how damp I got my clothes when I went outside without it Now that's interesting, isn't it? Yes. Yes He undoubtedly removed his coat at some point between here and your post I might as well tell you that his weapon a red croaky mallet is out by the side of this house I shouldn't be at all surprised that you'd find his fingerprints all over it all over the end of the mallet constable The end that mashed with his head Not the end I'd have to grasp in order to do the mashing That's a decent try smollet, but it won't work There must be other evidence constable you undoubtedly find it when you examine the body He means the hair and the withers nails Well, sir, I happen to notice something when your young george there opened the door for me If you'll carefully look I believe you'll find a few of my precious hairs under his nails too What are you trying to say George will you? Constable, this is a complete waste of time so far as a violent struggle between small it and withers is concerned Small it's face speaks for itself quite eloquently But no more eloquently than your son's knuckles as you see constable a fresh abrasion He did that on my teeth Or uh, did he What I said, uh, or did he he might have done that on withers teeth Oh Oh, I see I see what you mean. Oh, but I didn't got me said that I did You keep still you knit. Let me think let me think as a matter of fact George the more I think of it The more I'm convinced it was your voice. I heard quite a vigorous quarrel something about the uh, curate Filting your sister some ridiculous Very well, pincy if he didn't do it Who did yes, that's what I like to know. How about it, mr. Princy? Yes, that is a sticker. All right George my boy It looks to me as if you're elected elected. Oh, what do you mean?  Well, I won't sir. I'm not going to take the blame for her Millie did it. She did it with the manners. I saw me. What are you? Millie You could prove that Prove it Well, yes, yes Fingerprints on the matter Don't you remember when you made me touch the mallet when you picked it up with your handkerchief? George, I'm sure you wipe that handle clean Oh, well, I can hardly expect you to remember that if you can't even remember killing the curate I told you to keep still George. I am thinking. Oh god. You're not gonna let him say that As long as I can remember George You have been a trial and tribulation to me. What? You shouldn't have done it George You shouldn't have done it Now it's all over nice hot cappuccino. Worms are cockles. They are very good for you another And so closes wet saturday starring mr. Charles Lawton tonight's tale of Suspense in just a moment. We shall hear again from mr. 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Homesickness. One of the most talked about topics when it comes to study abroad. Almost every single time I bring up the fact that I'm doing a year in Scotland, people ask me if I'm homesick. It is probably the number one comment that I get on my videos about study abroad. The truth is that it is much more complicated than a yes or no answer, which maybe isn't the correct response or the response that people are hoping for. This is one of the most complicated topics that I've ever covered on my channel because homesickness seems so simple.   But how are you supposed to combat this feeling of missing home while also trying to build a new one, even if it is temporary? So this video is gonna be in three parts. Number one, the stages of homesickness. Number two, how to overcome it. And number three, what happens when you follow my awesome amazing advice. Stage one, fear.  I moved to Scotland in six, 16 days, which is a thought that kind of makes me want to throw up because then it starts to get real. Watch part one because there's a whole video about that. Stage two, excitement. Okay, so you have arrived. Everything is fun.  And everything at this point is really cute.  And like, oh, I'm at the pub. Ooh, I'm gonna drink tea. Like, any of it week three to four. Stage three, comparison. Small things start to pile up because yes, it was fun for the first couple of weeks when you had less school work and you were being a tourist, but now you actually live here. Like, I am supposed to be living the Highlight Reel right now, and like, I have watched like people above me like Study Broad and like, I have watched their Highlight Reel. I'm like, it is cool, but man, Instagram is a lie.  None of this matters, which refer to episode two for advice on that. Stage four, frustration. Okay, now something bad has happened and you have cracked or something good has happened. And basically you're gonna have this moment where something has happened and you really just want to call somebody at home, a friend or a family, or just a person you love, you know, and tell them what happened, but everyone is busy or asleep, and at this moment you may have a good cry and that is allowed. Stage five, acceptance. You have let go of most of the comparing and now it just seems like life is this way. You've let yourself live in the culture.  So now we're gonna talk about how to overcome it. I personally don't think that homesickness is something that goes away. I don't think it's a thing that you can master or like get rid of.  Number one, stop calling home. Okay, don't panic, don't panic. I can see you panicking. Do not panic. I don't mean to stop calling home altogether, but especially at the beginning, spend a few days without it. It is such a natural feeling to want to call home and talk to the people who love you and understand you. Like, if we're gonna leave anything on this planet, Yeah, it's gonna be spreading awareness of Jesse McCartney's film career. Technology nowadays is amazing and you can literally talk to anybody across the world on a tiny screen and you can see them. You can see their face. You can talk to them for hours if you want to. However, I think a lot of times we don't talk about the downsides of how interconnected our world is because, you know, on a biological level, we need in-person human connection. If you have plans to call home, or you just feel like you really need to talk to somebody from back home, but you get, you know, invited to go do something or, you know, there's like an event happening in the first month that you could go to and meet new people, it's going to be really important for you to prioritize the people that are here in person. If you spend too much time trying to uphold your life back home, you can really miss out on everything that's in front of you, and I think it's a really slippery slope and I have seen this. You get here and you're feeling a lot of anxiety and you kind of feel like you can't do it, so you start calling home a lot to, you know, to get that connection and believe me when I tell you this, it is only going to make it so much worse because you are going to be constantly reminded of everything that you left behind. Like this is just like some tough love right now because it's like those things aren't, aren't going to help you in the present moment. Everybody you love and everything that matters is going to be waiting for you when you get home. And also this advice really just applies to like the first month, like obviously, you know, if you have the first month, like the first couple of weeks, like you should really prioritize settling in, but, you know, obviously I've had days where, you know, I talk to friends for like an hour or so, you know, from home, like this is not something that has to last forever, but I think it is important to like establish your life here first. And number two is going to be stop the comparison. So for this one, I don't mean the fun ones, you know, like we say aluminum and they say aluminium. So silly there's so many letters, but I mean when you're frustrated, okay, so like military time and the date, they switch the date here, and I have like actively missed real important events in my life because of that. It is super easy to like throw your hands up and be like, yeah, like I just wish it was like home. But at the end of the day that comparison, it will not help you. Like what are they gonna do? Change the whole culture? No. So you just, you gotta, you just gotta vibe man. Part three. What happens when you take my excellent advice? Study abroad is one giant test of how you define yourself. For example, we define ourselves by where we're from, what we like to do, the people we love and who love us, the products we own, the subject we study, the school we go to, our political affiliations. But how do you define yourself in a place that can't really understand the full context of who you are? When you suddenly don't have these easy signifiers to point to your character. Suddenly the state you're from becomes the United States. The school you go to becomes a long-winded geographical explanation that's linked to an obscure television show. I tell people that I go to school where they filmed the Outer Banks and the notebook. This is a, this is a common thing I do. And they're like, oh, it's of that. Or they haven't seen the show, they're like, and this is both the beauty and the curse of going abroad. I have spent a lot of years of my life feeling like I was weird, which I am a little weird. I think the best people are who wants to be normal. Like, you know, I was quiet. I, I am quiet.  I was like in the arts.  The wrong people. However, people nonetheless. And I had this moment in October here where I was at dinner and I don't know what was happening. Maybe someone was asking me what I was doing that day and I, I brought up the play that I was reading for class and how I thought it was, I thought it was a really good play. And we had never talked about this before, like to contextualize this. Without, without a breath, the person across from me responded like, oh, yeah, I've, I've actually, I haven't read that play, but I've read this other play by that, that same playwright and it was like totally excellent. And I was like, am I being punked? Am I, here am I? Okay. I'm, I don't want to be dragged. So I'm not saying that Americans do not care about art or like that kind of thing. Cause like we do, like we really do. But like you have to be in like a very specific environment to garner that sort of response. And I was just like at dinner. So like now I'm here and I'm like this quiet nerd who likes art and like that's cool. You know, there are these instant labels that people put on us at home. And I started to realize, you know, after a while, they do it here to each other, the class system. Oh my God. Of course they do. That's how the world works. We all try to understand people that we don't know and categorize them and put them into boxes. It's a universal problem that I am guilty of as well. We are all guilty of this. But this year I got an escape from it. You know, I have had seven months of not being, you know, instantaneously understood. And I put it best in this journal entry. There is something so nice about being a part of a culture someplace, not having to explain yourself. Except when you want to be someone new, because you have to explain yourself. So who am I explaining myself as? Who do you want to explain yourself as? Because that right there is the magic of study abroad if you let it happen. If you push yourself to talk to people who are different than you, it's hard. It's lonely sometimes. But I have never had a better grip on who I am than ever before. I know who I want to explain myself as because I've literally had to do it. And when people try to put me in boxes when I go back, which they will and I will, I will be better equipped to be proud of the parts of myself that like fit in here and that are more like socially acceptable. Because if I have learned anything this year, it is that there is always somewhere to start over.  There's always a new place to be homesick for. But each time you start over, you bring yourself with you. So who do you want to be?