Shadowing Practice: idk what im doing with my life (and that's ok) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Cheerios!
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Cheerios!
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Month-old Cheerios out of a Tupperware.
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I need to go grocery shopping.
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You know what?
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Cereal basically lasts forever.
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Like, if you steal it right, it doesn't get stale.
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So, like, what's the big deal?
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And I don't have any bowls left.
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Oh my god, this is embarrassing.
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You know this cereal's old because it's Cheerios,
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but it's heart-shaped Cheerios from Valentine's Day.
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I definitely got this cereal before Valentine's Day,
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and it's the end of March, so.
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Decaf coffee, some almond milk in it,
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and we're having a morning.
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I like the taste of like disgusting dark coffee makes me feel like a woman
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I love you I love you You can see how good I slept
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because of this little what are these called kinks not that type of kink Freak.
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Why do I keep wanting to say calico?
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That's a cat.
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Cowlick.
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Like when babies get them from sleeping on one side of their head.
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It's literally been hours.
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I'm still in my pajamas.
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Shut up.
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I'm going to show you guys how to make the best smoothie in the world.
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You will need frozen strawberries,
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frozen bananas, dates, almond milk, and chia seeds.
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Because when I put these in there,
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I feel like I'm being healthy.
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Some banana.
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I add about four to five dates.
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These are the only dates I'm getting, am I right?
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Yeah, they look like cockroaches.
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Wow, it's very thick.
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Now I'm gonna go drink this and play some online Scrabble.
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Hello.
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I wanted to film today because I'm getting my hair done
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and it's a beautiful day out and I just feel like filming.
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I used to like plan my videos out so hard
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and know exactly what I was filming and I needed to have some concept
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Before I turned on the camera
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and now it's just like turn on the camera whenever I feel like it
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and whatever happens happens Things change people change honestly I feel like YouTube has changed
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so much in the last two years and I fully think that's
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because of tick-tock I think tick-tock has taken over it is rotting our brains and yes,
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I'm addicted to it I'm fully addicted to my phone.
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It is bad.
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So yeah, I'm gonna skedaddle.
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Why?
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Not only did I get my hair done,
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I also went to Whole Foods.
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Should we do a little Whole Foods haul?
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Because that is so interesting and I know you're all dying to see what I got from the grocery store.
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Almond milk.
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Purple carrots.
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The most perfect strawberries.
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Potatoes.
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Lettuce.
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Chocolate chip cookies.
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I actually want to try these.
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Not bad.
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We got some pre-made falafel.
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I was feeling crazy, clearly.
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Some cheddar cheese.
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Avocados.
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Brownies.
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Banana peppers.
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Soup.
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Sourdough bread.
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They have an orange juice machine there where it like freshly squeezes orange juices.
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Freshly squeezes oranges.
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And I, oh my god, it's so good.
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I did it and it went all over my hand and all over the bottle.
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Some chicken breast.
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Mini Belgian waffles.
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Frozen pizza.
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Amy's frozen dinners frozen french fries
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and some fresh sliced turkey breasts the one thing about going grocery shopping is now I have
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so much option to choose from I don't know what to make for lunch
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but you know when I don't have to choose
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when I use hello fresh yes this video is sponsored by
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hello fresh I love hello fresh I've used it myself for
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many many months with hello fresh you get fresh pre-portioned ingredients
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and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep I do a serving for two people
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and then I'll eat half of it for dinner
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and then eat the other half as leftovers the next day so I get two meals out of it.
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I said this before but my favorite part is that the ingredients are pre-portioned so there's no food waste.
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You're not wasting anything.
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You only use exactly what you need and I love that because I hate wasting food.
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It also makes eating healthy way easier.
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They have so many options if you're a vegetarian,
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if you eat meat, if you're a pescatarian.
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I tell everyone in my real life like
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if you're trying to get into cooking and you have no confidence in the kitchen.
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It is a great way to get into it.
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It helped me develop my cooking skills so much.
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And you're making your own meals.
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You're saving so much money by not door-dashing every meal.
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You're eating healthier.
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It's just a million good things in one.
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If you guys want to try it,
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you can go to HelloFresh.com and use the code Kennedy16 for up to 16 free meals and three surprise gifts.
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Again, that's HelloFresh.com.
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Use the code Kennedy16 for up to 16 free meals and three surprise gifts.
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Make your loved one a special meal.
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And if you don't have a loved one,
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well, you're not special because neither do I.
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I watched season two of Bridgerton and Ruby's rubbing her butthole on the floor.
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I'm going to kill myself.
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Why are you doing that?
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Not to make this entire video about food, but let's make lunch.
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I love watching people cook and eat.
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I'm going to make a salad, okay?
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Listen, I don't know what I'm doing with my life and I I don't care anymore.
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I'm not trying to figure things out.
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I'm not trying to plan for the future.
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I'm just doing.
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Planning is stressful and stupid.
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I don't believe in it.
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You've gotta be joking.
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Triple washed?
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Then what is this dirt on it?
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There's literal dirt on it and it says triple washed.
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I don't believe you.
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This one.
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There was a bug!
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Oh my God, ew, ew, ew.
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What the fuck?
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Whole Foods, I'm suing.
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You tried to kill me.
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I'm washing it again.
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It says triple washed.
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They're liars.
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How is it triple washed if there was a fucking bug?
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I, it doesn't take much to gross me out.
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It's why I'll probably never be in a relationship is that related yes it is banana peppers anything pickled i love
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she's perfect
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well this is just fascinating welcome to my safe space this is where i spend so much of my time
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I just discovered my very first diary entry from when I was 16.
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This was literally six years ago,
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and I need to show you guys how absolutely dramatic I was,
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but also how I kind of have not changed.
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Just listen.
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I also want to preface this by saying I started writing this diary
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because I was watching the show Awkward and she has a blog in that show,
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and I wanted to be her.
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I often get told I'm a negative person with a negative view on things.
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I'm not really sure when my anti-everything attitude began,
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but somewhere throughout my 16 years of living,
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I started preparing myself for the worst.
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I guess when you get your hopes up for something and it ends up not happening,
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you stop being so positive and start realizing that life is full of bad situations and pessimism.
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For example, nothing ever works out for me.
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I mean, like ever.
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For example, tonight, I was supposed to go to my friend's house
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and we were going to do something I had never done before.
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Get high.
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I don't drink, I don't smoke,
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I don't sneak out, I basically don't do anything fun.
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The highlight of my Friday night is watching the colors my bath bomb makes when I drop it in the water.
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And in my odd way, I'm comfortable with that.
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Like most introverts, my home is my safe place.
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So why do I feel so shitty all the time?
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Like I said, I'm supposed to go get high with my friend tonight.
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Just me and her in the safety of her basement.
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I had my money ready and I didn't even do anything Friday night
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because I was excited for tonight and figured that that's enough excitement for my weekend.
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Still, in the back of my mind,
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I told myself not to get too excited.
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I told myself that something was gonna happen
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that would ruin my plans to experience something different for once
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in my life I'm sick of laying in my bed watching
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movies wishing I was the main girl who always managed to be living a fun
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and upbeat life But no my friend had to ask me last minute
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if I wanted to go to a stupid party where I do not know anyone You can meet new people she says.
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I'm sorry.
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Did I say I wanted to meet new people?
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I'm fine with the people I know I don't want to
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be around people my age who feel the need to get drunk every weekend
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I hate it and I hate who I am
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and I hate the way my brain works
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and I hate oh my god And I hate
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that the only guy who I talked to is a disgusting pig who just happens to also be so fucking hot.
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I was a dramatic
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teenager then I started writing about the boy
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that I liked who I didn't actually like he was just super hot and
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Older than me this diary entry is titled this story is bullshit
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and I sound 12 and in the diary entry I named him Elliot.
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That's not his real name,
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but I didn't even want to type out his name.
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So I said, so I called him Elliot.
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Elliot is so hot.
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Okay.
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I'm going to tell the story as if it was in a book so I can remember exactly how it happened.
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I'm walking down the hallway to leave school.
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And usually at the end of the hallway,
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Elliot is waiting there to go to basketball practice.
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As I approach him, me and my friend make eye contact and I make a fake disgusted face.
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But when Elliot looks at me,
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a big smile appears on my face as it does on his.
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Oh my God, this is so pathetic.
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Hey, he smiles.
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Hi, I reply.
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How are you?
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He playfully says back.
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I'm good.
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I choked back.
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And the conversation ended because I walked out the door.
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And now that I've written it out,
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it doesn't seem as hot as when it happened,
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but trust me it was.
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Then I wrote I gotta get out more.
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After school today I was waiting in the gym hallway with my friends and Elliot comes over to me,
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his friends following.
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I say the stupidest stuff when I'm around him
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and I don't make sense but I can't help it because he's so intimidating and full of himself and I'm not.
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I've decided if he asks me out again I'm gonna go.
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It's decided but if he doesn't I'll let it go and get on with my life.
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Then I wrote he's a slut.
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I remember being in class and like my phone would be in my backpack
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and I'd pull it up like every five minutes to see if he snapchatted me.
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This one says, so we went to Applebee's.
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It sucked.
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And I hate Applebee's.
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Fuck Applebee's.
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Am I right?
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I actually remember that.
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It was disgusting.
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I just recently started feeling like I was actually 22 years old.
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Like, I don't know, my 21st birthday,
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I still felt like a kid or like the whole first year and a half of living this,
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living in this apartment, I felt so young still,
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but I went through so much of like trying to cling on to my childhood.
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20, the ages of 20 and 21 were purely just like me trying to regress.
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I rewatched Hannah Montana twice.
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I would like play games I played as a kid,
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like do anything to connect to my,
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the child version of myself.
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But eventually you adapt to the change and you got to get on with your life.
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I'm
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going to
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go ahead and put it in the middle of the middle.
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I'm
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going to
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go ahead and put it in the middle of the room.
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Look at Ruby.
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Look how much she loves this little tower.
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I think that's gonna be all for this video I'm just spending my day cleaning
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and preparing for my trip tomorrow I hope you guys enjoyed spending some time with me.
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I feel like I always say this but my life is really Not very interesting.
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I know some of you like that.
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This is real.
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This is me and it's exactly where I'm supposed to be All right.
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Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next video.
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Bye I just tripped on my knees.
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I just tripped on my knees.
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This video offers a candid glimpse into everyday life and emotions, making it an excellent resource for English speaking practice. The speaker discusses simple yet relatable topics, such as grocery shopping and morning routines, which are experienced by many individuals. By using this video, learners can immerse themselves in natural conversational English and develop a better understanding of how to express daily activities in a casual context. Engaging with authentic content like this not only enhances vocabulary but also builds confidence in speaking through realistic scenarios.
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