Arvin's blog

It's a new month and the best month of the year.  Christmas trees, decorations, lights, full of sparkles and songs, I love them all, and that absolutely makes December is my favorite month of the year. I can't believe it's also the end of 2021, but it has been full of amazing adventures and experiences. Every year I mean every end of the year, I look back on what special things happened to me and write about how I learned from those in my journal. By considering it, I make a new plan for the following year about what I can work on or change.   This year has been pretty challenging for me, to be honest. I'm not always being a good girl; of course, I make mistakes and go through difficult times, which I would never expect to, but the thing is, I know I could do it, and I could make it better next time. My mom always says, "Things happen for a reason, and we just need to accept the way it is." Everything that has happened to me in 2021 has a reason like my mom sa...

Thanksgiving is the best part of November I think. Nothing can be better than meeting your loved ones, having a feast with them, and talking about good things that happened in our lives. I had a really good time with my family, and I'm thankful for everything that I have. I feel blessed and loved so much by these people who are always by my side and support me all the time. I can't imagine what my life would be if they weren't here. Thanksgiving is the day that reminds me how lucky I am to be alive at this moment and living in this world with being surrounded by these lovely and most amazing people who take care of me more than anything. I feel as if I would never repay this much love.  Talking about my family, my father's birthday is the day before Thanksgiving. Since I am living more than 10000 miles away from them, I asked my friend's help for surprising my dad on his birthday. So, I facetimed with my friend, bought some gifts for my dad, and sent her to my paren...

       This week has been utterly exhausting because of exams and the speech. Plus, having flu made it worse, which made me worry about whether it was Covid-19. But, thankfully, I tested negative, so it was just a common cold. I'm sure it's because of the weather condition, and I assume I didn't bundle up enough. But it's getting better now because I'm layering up more and taking medicine.  After finishing my exams and speech now, I finally have time to start working on the last project in my English class. I know I should have started earlier, but time didn't allow me to. I really need to catch up on everything soon, and I'm planning on doing most of it this coming Thanksgiving break; otherwise, my teacher would be really disappointed in me, which I hate. I have still no idea about writing a rational argument because I didn't pay attention to it when my teacher explained it in class. Hopefully, rereading her notes and looking at examples to help me to u...

Everyone knows about James Bond, but not me until November 8, 2021. I know you might think  I'm weird, but to be honest, the only thing I knew about was James Bond is a spy under the codename 007, and that's all.  Never seen any of the episodes of his series, and that means I knew pretty much nothing about it. However, last Monday, I went to the movie theatre to watch "No time to die," the new film released on October 8 in the United States.  It was almost a 3-hour movie, but I didn't feel that long cause I was so into it. Overall, the movie was superb! I can't say enough what can be better than this. I enjoyed it very much throughout this film cause everything on that film was so cool!   In the last part of the film, I was a little emotional because it was sad, making me cry. I tried to hide my feeling, but I just couldn't. Just thinking about this last scene and writing it right now in this blog again makes my heartbeat race a little bit, and my tears ar...

We have been working on a project about a non-profit organization named Promise you art house for the past few weeks. This project helped me improve my learning skills, such as working in a team, doing given tasks on time, and enhancing my interview skills. I'm glad that I had incredible teammates for this project, and I really enjoyed working with them. Everyone in our team was given a task to do, and no one in our team is a procrastinator, which I was so happy about.  I'm thankful for their work and effort in this project. It has been a wonderful experience throughout this semester so far.    The most important thing that I learned from this project is conducting interviews with new people. As I already mentioned in my other blog, I went to Promise you art house and had a chance to talk about it with its owner.  It was something new cause I wasn't a person interested in arts, but after seeing and listening to what she spoke about arts, I was amazed by their work, a...

Starting the day with a cup of coffee has been my morning routine for a long time. You know me now; I'm a coffee lover, especially drinking lattes. I don't usually go to Starbucks to have a coffee, but instead, I like going to different cafes to check their coffees out. I have no idea why I'm such a huge fan of coffee, but I think it's because of working in a coffee house when I was a teenager. The barista who worked there always allowed me to have coffee whenever I wanted, so that might be the answer. I learned a lot about coffee from that job, such as its types and flavors, even some coffee arts.  I had seen many people drinking the same coffee every morning, and I thought that was so weird, but look at me right now; I've already become one of those people. This morning, I went to a Kanela breakfast club in downtown Chicago with my friend. I ordered Lorraine Scramble with a cup of latte for my breakfast, and I loved everything. The customer service was terrific, a...