#elle does challenges

day 6: how do you say “autumn” in your native language / the language you’re learning? plus points if you google the origin.

my native language is Filipino, and i had to google the word because we don't have seasons here HAHAHA

for the month of october, i’ll be doing @studynostalgic ’s #nostalgicautumn challenge!

day 9: what’s your favorite quote?

i love this question because i finally found the answer to it this summer!

for the month of october, i’ll be attempting to do doing @studynostalgic ’s #nostalgicautumn challenge! we’re on day 2 now WOOOOOO

day 2: create an autumn playlist to keep u company this month!

even though this playlist may seem a little redundant in terms of artists, here’s a warm and fuzzy playlist for autumn! and yes, there’s a christmas song because there’s only 84 days ‘till christmas HAHAHAHA spotify playlist 

for the month of october, i'll be attempting to do @studynostalgic 's #nostalgicautumn challenge! even though we don't really have autumn here where i'm from, i think it'll still be really fun to do 💜

day 1: let’s get it! set some goals: what do you hope to achieve this october? include some autumn activities.

october marks the start of our second quarter and the ens of the first quarter! we had our perioidic exams today in math and chemistry, and i'll be taking our economics exam tomorrow.

my goals for october are:

to sucessfully organize a general assembly for my club

to have fun on our school fieldtrip

to wear boots outside at least once (this is my autumn thing now HAHAHAHA)

to celebrate my friends' birthdays (why do they all have birthdays in october?)

to improve chemistry and math grades

for the month of october, i’ll be doing @studynostalgic ’s #nostalgicautumn challenge!

day 7: read this poem. what did you think of it?

okay so i don't know if i just spent too much time in my writing class annotating and analyzing poems, but i was generally prepared to whip out some paper and annotate the heck out of this poem HAHAHAHA

though in general, i loved how simple it was compared to other poems that used too many words to get their message across. this one built a picture in my head without using more than ten words of a couple standing in the middle of a forest on a blustery day, meeting again after a really long time of not seeing each other. on a personal level it makes me feel like they were in a long-distance relationship and they're seeing each other again in a magical night in october. ✨

for the month of october, i’ll be doing @studynostalgic ’s #nostalgicautumn challenge! unfortunately, i skipped day 4 because i don’t own any candles and i couldn’t buy one. :( but i’m back for day 5!

day 5: write a short love letter to yourself and put it into your jacket pocket to be your lucky charm. if it’s not too personal, post it on here to. otherwise just recap how it was writing to yourself: was it easy or did you struggle a bit? 

i wrote my love letter in my journal, and it’s kind of personal so i won’t post it in detail, but i’ll tell you about what i wrote. I've recently been trying to get into journalling again, a habit that I had when I was younger and lost when I reached high school due to lack of time. It used to make me feel good when I was younger but I felt ashamed of talking about how I liked writing or journalling in general because I felt like it was something too personal to talk about. But now, I want to talk about it as a healthy habit that really helps me with my mental health and how it makes me feel better as a person.

Most of what I've been reflecting on recently is about future plans and what I could do or what could happen after college. Right now, I'm actually really proud of myself for everything I've done or achieved so far with my life, and I'm actually really glad I've reached a good mental state wherein I feel motivated and productive but don't beat myself up when I don't reach something as of the moment. I've reached a point where I'm genuinely pleased at myself, which is something I thought I wouldn't achieve three years ago, when my mental health was at its worse state.

I feel like for the first time in my life, I'm genuinely experiencing self-love and self-care, and I really hope it's something I continue to maintain.