Shadowing Practice: NYC VLOG: Day in the Life Exploring the City and Living my Best Life - Learn English Speaking with Video

Oh, hello.

This is Taylor.

I am a 26 year old former management consultant, recently turned full-time creator, living and working here in New York City.

And welcome to my bedroom terrace.

Guys, I forget every single year just how magical this city becomes when the weather warms up.

And I absolutely live for those rogue, random 70 degree days that we'll have in the middle of the winter sometimes.

The whole entire city comes out to play, myself included.

And today, we have another one.

Although we're starting to have more and more.

I think the season's actually just changing.

But regardless, we have a packed day and best believe I'm taking you guys with me.

So maybe pack a little lunch, get some water, maybe go to the bathroom, do what you need to do.

But let's get started, shall we?

You don't actually think I leave my house without making coffee first.

Okay, I actually needed to answer some emails, but we're done.

I just signed a contract for my next brand deal, responded to a couple other things, and almost finished my coffee.

Kind of.

Okay, let's go.

I love how even though it's a spring I still dress like a vampire.

I always will.

Wow what a beautiful day.

Everyone's out and about again.

Well today is a Tuesday so not everyone some people have to work but you know a lot more than usual.

obsessed by the way with these blue fire escapes.

I think, oh my god, it's so cool.

It really catches your eye.

I don't think it looks tacky.

Okay, prime example of why I love New York when the sun comes out, you just run into friends.

What's up guys?

This is Harry.

Howdy.

Harry's awesome.

I know I say this all the time, but it's interactions like this that make New York City feel like a playground for adults.

For such a huge city, it is incredibly small and compact at the same time.

I run into friends literally all the time, and I absolutely love it.

It really makes it feel like a huge college campus in a lot of ways.

Anyway, Harry and I hung out here unexpectedly for almost an hour.

He's the absolute best.

We've been friends for like almost eight years at this point.

And now please enjoy this montage of Harry being the kindest heckler in the entire world.

How do you hop in this?

You have to take a big run up, hop in a skip.

You can a skit.

You can do it, sir.

I can see.

You just got to limber up a bit.

You got to hurdle it.

If you want a boost, I can leg you.

I'll do it.

Why are you not on the other side of the fence?

I don't trust her.

I have to keep a bit of distance.

Are you both British?

No, this is me.

She's Californian.

I like your hat, sir, by the way.

Very cool.

Best hat of the day.

You're a heckler.

Yeah, but like a nice one.

Obviously, yeah.

That was so much fun.

I'm so glad you guys got to meet Harry.

He's a very good egg.

All right, we're actually going to take the bus to our next location because when the weather is this nice, I just want to stay above ground.

So let's do that.

I also think the bus in New York City is so underrated.

Bus is really good on some routes.

This stop is massive speed in East Harbor.

All right guys, here we are at the Oculus.

This is the World Trade Center transportation hub and a mall.

It's a mall.

I'm about to go make a big purchase inside of there at a tech store.

All right, but first some quick specs on this bad boy.

This was designed by one of my favorite architects, Santiago Calatrava.

He is a Spanish architect.

And I've actually had the pleasure of seeing a number of his works, including the Arts and Sciences Center in Valencia, Spain, which is where he's from.

I'm gonna have to dig up some pictures of me in front of there.

It was like circa 2019.

I had really long, damaged, bleached blonde hair.

I'll find some pictures.

But anyway, here's another one.

And I know that this bad boy cost $4 billion to make, which was double the original estimate.

Baller.

But apparently a pain in the ass for the city.

Anyway, he's not even one of my favorites because I think it's super visually beautiful.

It is beautiful, but anyway, I just know that he really pushes the boundaries of what is actually structurally possible

and all of his works really resemble like bones and living things and like a lot of spines.

Also for reference, it is right outside the World Trade Center, which is this big guy, and Ground Zero, which we can go take a look at in a few minutes.

Here it is.

It's pretty iconic.

Look at all those little ants down there.

Am I right?

This is the tech store, if you've ever heard of it.

All of a sudden, I made the purchase.

There it is, by the way, in all its glory.

I will show you guys the purchase I made once we get back home.

But first, and it's a cool one, but first I'm going to show you guys Ground Zero.

This is where the original footprint of the Twin Towers was and they have every single person's name printed out, organized by flight I believe.

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And I just think it's really, really well done.

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I remember finding a YouTube video at some point showing what

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the life is like of the guys who go down in there and clean it.

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My YouTube rabbit holes, you know.

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But anyway, would recommend coming to see it if you visit the city.

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Yeah, I think it's very well done.

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I'm going to go.

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Hello.

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Let's get into it.

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Oh, okay.

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So this bad boy cost me a pretty penny.

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Much like the Calatrava building.

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This also cost $4 billion.

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But the specs on this are very powerful.

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Powerful specs.

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And I realized as I was buying this, this is the single biggest purchase I have ever made.

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It's been kind of hard for me in my adulthood to break free of my frugal mentality.

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But I really am trying to become more comfortable with spending money on the things that really matter.

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This is a laptop, if you guys didn't realize.

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And I just realized, while my computer was crashing a couple months ago, while I was trying to edit a video, technology should not be a bottleneck.

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It's just silly for me to not have the best possible machine for me to do my job.

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Anyway, not to make a huge deal out of this, but this is exciting.

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This has 64 gigabytes of RAM because video editing, especially editing 4K footage, which I do, and the more complex the project is with a lot of

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layers like it just takes up a lot of memory

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so I really upgraded the memory I got more than what I actually need

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because that will future proof this thing

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and it also has two terabytes of internal storage yeah the

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specs can go even up from here I have a friend who has maxed out specs

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and that's an eight thousand dollar computer but this should do

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and I'm so excited to use it okay I'll shut up and let's do a little ASMR here shall we Ta-da!

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I'll give you guys the first hello.

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Hi!

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Howdy!

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Alright, we will play this later.

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I actually don't have much time to waste right now because we need to get ready.

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So let's do that.

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Anyways, we're gonna go meet a friend for drinks in the West Village and it's a Tuesday mind you.

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I love my job.

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Yeah one of the benefits of being a full-time creator

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that I actually didn't anticipate is that more often than I expected am I planning my days around the weather.

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Obviously that applies a bit more in the spring and summer.

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If I'm planning a vlog or something like

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that I can do it on a day that I know is going to be sunny and nice like today.

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And then when I see

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that it's going to be kind of gross I can try to make

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that like an editing day you know what i mean an unanticipated benefit

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but it's pretty sweet yeah this is the perfume i've been

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wearing for a few months now i absolutely love it gucci bloom not sponsored i wish okay

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all right just biked to west village

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and ran into another friend i always say it feels like like a playground for adults and that's exactly why.

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Anyway, I'm about to get to the bar.

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It is a little chillier now, I'm not gonna lie, but it's still, I'm still feeling good.

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Vibes are good.

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The I

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don't like to say.

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Hello.

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I just got home a little bit ago.

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What a fun day.

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I'll tell you more when I get in bed because I still have to shower, take off my makeup, brush my teeth, but then I want to chat with you guys a little bit.

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I guess one kind of unfun update to keep things real.

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I think I completely effed up my bed sheets.

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I washed my really, really nice cream sheets with a black jacket that I wear.

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I thought I had washed the black jacket before, but this must've been the first time.

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And so the black kind of stained the sheets and I don't totally know what to do about it.

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So that's not fun.

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Anyway, I'm not gonna put them in the dryer cause I know

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that will just set the stain and I'm gonna troubleshoot it tomorrow.

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But for tonight, I'm gonna sleep on top of my throw blanket and I'm using this t-shirt as a pillowcase.

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Oh well, that's life.

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Let's shower.

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People have asked me my skincare routine for a long time.

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I guess you're kind of getting it now.

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I've never posted one.

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It's tough though because my routine truly differs in some way, shape, or form pretty much every single night depending on what my skin needs.

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I'm getting in my little makeshift bed here.

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I'm going to read my book for a bit before I go to bed, but I just was thinking about today.

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And it's days like today that just make me so happy to be in New York City.

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It really is just the liveliest place filled with the best people in the world.

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I mean, you know, my friends.

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And today, all I had planned was just a day out on the town, kind of by myself, and bringing you guys along, and then, like, running into Harry in the Park, and then going for drinks later, and getting pizza at that place.

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Like, that was all just totally spontaneous, and I don't know.

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It's stuff like that that just makes me happy to be in the city, and also just really grateful for this huge career transitionary part of my life.

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Transitionary? that's a word but yeah this career change has been both incredibly exciting

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and very very challenging in many ways but most importantly it's been very fulfilling

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and for that I am super grateful

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so anyway thank you guys for spending the day with me

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today I know this uh this setup looks a little jank right now normally I have really big fluffy pillows

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and a super super inviting bed you guys saw it this morning just remember this morning but we're keeping it real.

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Anyway, if you guys made it this far and enjoy this video at all, please thumbs up, subscribe.

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It's totally free and it helps me out so, so much.

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And I have some really exciting content coming soon that you won't want to miss.

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So thank you.

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I appreciate you.

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Thank you for being here.

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And until next time, turtle out.

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Bye.

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Good night.

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And stay hydrated.

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Wait, I can't laugh.

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Most of the time I fuck up one of my shots is because I started laughing.

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I actually do have to pee though Wait, continuity

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