TR Study

Setting up my monthly schedule. I just finished my courses and am finally able to take some time to do some planning.

I always plan my goals for the month a few days before it starts. It helps to set realistic and concrete goals, so I can actually plan over them and track if I'm accomplishing them during the month.

This month I have no classes, so I am willing to study things not university related and also to focus on my health (both fiscal and mental).

The university calendar is pretty much messed up because of the pandemic, but I think it will be all sorted out after we get passed this.

It's been awhile since my last post. I am still not used to post about my daily study routine and I got carried away with the amount of work I had to do. Even with so many things done I didn't take the time to take any pictures of my notes...

These are some of my old Portuguese grammar notes. I've been consulting them regularly now, since I'm teaching grammar. I never thought that I would need these pages again, but here I am. This is why I never throw away my old notes, one never knows when they might be needed again.

Essas são algumas das minhas anotações antigas de gramática. Estive usando bastante meu caderno antigo agora que eu estou dando aulas de gramática no cursinho popular. Há um ano atrás, poderia jurar que não usaria esse caderno nunca mais, mas aqui estou eu. É por isso que eu nunca jogo fora minhas anotações, nunca se sabe quando elas serão necessárias.

This week I'm trying to be more committed to my schedule and it has been great so far. I only have trouble with my reading, since I either don't read at all or read so much I loose track of time. I will work on that though.

This book is called "Laços de Família", by the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. The title means "family bonds" and has these amazing and deep short stories about relationships between family members. She is a well known writer here in Brazil, famous for her characters' complex psychological traits and for depicting many profound and interesting women in her books. I very much recommend the reading!

(This is hibiscus tea, by the way. It's naturally pink and tastes amazing)

Today I have online classes. Getting ready with some tea in this cute cup helps to set the "study hard" mood for me. When my desk is organized I feel so much more inclined to study and to be productive. Ideally, I would start every day with a great breakfast and then would spend some time organizing my room. It's not always possible, since I have trouble waking up early and struggle to be in time for the classes. But sometimes drinking some tea is enough!

I bought this mug some time ago in a trip to the beautiful city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, in Brazil. The city is amazing! The culture, the beaches, the food, the people, everything felt like summer. Actually I wasn't a big fan of summer, but it was amazing how things were there, as if everything came out of a book. Maybe I just didn't know what a perfect summer was like until I went there.

This kind of sweet memory really helps me to feel better in my study desk. It gives the space some kind of warm feeling that extends itself to the studying itself.

It has been quite hard to keep focused these last few days. I wasn't feeling motivated to study and mostly watched Netflix all day. But we need to keep moving forward, regardless of our lack of energy. It is not ideal that we must do so, but live goes on and we shouldn't let ourselves fall behind, worrying about things we cannot control. All we can do is remember ourselves the reason we started this journey, and that should be enough to keep us going. It was enough for me today. I remembered that I'm giving myself a chance to do something with my life that I can be proud of, and therefore I was able to study a bit. Studying under the morning sun makes it easier sometimes too!

Today I spent most of the day watching covid-19 online classes. It's an online course for health care students and professionals given by one of the most prestigious Universities here in Brazil, the Universidade de São Paulo. Since I'm only on my first period in graduation, it has been quite hard to understand everything, but I can see that the effort put here is helping me grow a lot.

Hoje eu passei a maior parte do dia assistindo as aulas EAD do curso de covid-19 oferecido pela USP para estudantes e profissionais da área da saúde.Já que eu só estou no meu primeiro período de medicina, está sendo difícil acompanhar tudo o que os professores passam, mas o esforço está me ajudando muito a crescer (tanto em conhecimento sobre o covid-19 quanto sobre epidemiologia e muitas áreas da medicina).

Hoje eu passei um bom tempo organizando meus afazeres para o próximo semestre. Vai ser bastante corrido, mas estou animada! Passei muito tempo nesse primeiro semestre de 2020 sem ter o que fazer e agora ter objetivos é gratificante. Talvez eu esteja colocando metas demais para os próximos meses, mas prefiro arriscar do que não me comprometer com o que eu quero fazer. É possível que mais pra frente eu mude os planos que eu tracei hoje, mas é melhor ter algo planejado que possa ser alterado depois do que ficar sem plano algum contando com as mudanças que virão.

[27/06/2020]

Ontem eu terminei de preparar a terceira aula de gramática que eu vou dar, no cursinho popular da minha universidade.

Tem sido um grande desafio preparar aulas online e gravar o conteúdo, mas tenho tido feedbacks bons, o que faz tudo valer a pena.

Hoje quero terminar de gravar a aula e renderizar o vídeo até a noite. Quem sabe dá tempo de estudar um pouco também.

Just for the record, I've been trying to learn Japanese as well.

It's the second time I try to know all the Hiragana by heart. Last time was five years ago and I wasn't very successful in it. But I am positive about this time, since now I have proper help from an learning app and also a very dear friend who happens to know Japanese.

I started to study French this March.

Começei a estudar francês por um aplicativo (Duolingo) em Março, no dia em que me mudei pra Uberaba, antes de toda a pandemia começar. Confesso que estudar línguas lá foi mais fácil do que é agora (22 de Maio) e eu não tenho avançado tanto quando gostaria nos meus estudos. É bom poder fazer algo que eu sempre planejei fazer, mas nunca tive a coragem ou a determinação de colocar em prática.

Comprei esse caderno em um mercado perto de casa depois que a quarentena já estava instalada e as papelarias já não estavam mais abrindo. Senti que com o papel físico para anotar meu progresso seria mais fácil persistir no estudo. O caderno não tem um papel bom e só é bonito do lado de fora, mas se servir ao seu propósito, já fico extremamente agradecida, já que estou me sentindo tão sufocada pela situação caótica que não consigo me concentrar por tanto tempo ultimamente.