Self Interview

The speaker reflects on their experience during the pandemic, emphasizing the challenges of isolation and the importance of video games as a way to stay connected. They also discuss their love for music, particularly electronic and drum and bass genres, and how it helps them focus and enjoy different activities. Exercise and music are mentioned as sources of inspiration and confidence. The speaker admits to not having many idols but mentions online content creators whose jobs they admire. Their hobbies include snowboarding, baking (especially chocolate chip cookies and creme brulee), playing video games, going to the gym, listening to podcasts, and driving Japanese cars. Snowboarding is their favorite hobby. All right. I am now conducting the self interview. I have made five questions and I have to answer them how I wrote them. I do I listen to a lot of podcasts. So I hope my knowledge of them can sort of come through in some sort of way doing this. All right. The first question is what did you do to make it through the pandemic? And how did it change you? Well, the pandemic for me was, it was a lot. I mean, it started in what, February is when school quit. And then as soon as like that started, we were inside for, you know, seven months with no real like outside interaction. And that as a teenager who loves being social, it's kind of insane. Like, that was a lot for me to handle. What did I do to make it through though, I played a lot of video games, and I'm talking a lot. I would play, like just, it probably saved me because I was able to be social with my friends a lot of the time on, on like, online video games, because we could talk to each other and we could share, you know, what's been happening and everybody was always on because nobody could leave their house for a while. I think that did help me because if I had no interaction with people for that long, it probably drive me kind of insane. How did it change me? I feel like, I feel like it showed that I actually can handle being alone pretty well for a long time. But I do love being social. Some people can't run being solo. But I think I can handle actually both pretty well. I've figured out that being just having no one, it's okay for me, I can actually thrive even because it helps me focus on things. Though, it didn't help in online school. I didn't do well in that, I have to say. My second question is how has music affected you or your life? Music for me is massive. I listen to music, I'm listening to music as I record this so that I can not be weirded out by the silence and talking to myself in a way. I listen to music all the time. I was in the top 1% of Spotify listeners because I listened to I think over 100,000 minutes in a year or something like that. Yeah, like 65 straight days of music, which is pretty insane. I just love like a lot of genres, but I listen to a lot of electronic. A lot of my favorite, which is drum and bass, which is, it comes from the UK and it kind of, there's a lot of different types. There's hardcore versions of it, but there's also like chilled out liquid drum and bass as they call it, which is very cool. It helps me with homework, it helps me focus. I listen to that all the time. It's affected me massively, music has, because it just, I don't know. It helps me with my homework, it helps me with my day. I listen to it when I work out. I'm listening to it all the time. I have headphones on my head, probably more than I don't have headphones on my head. My third question is what inspires you or helps your confidence? I'd say music again. Also, exercise has been a massive, it's very important to me. It's very important to everything, like it helps me be more confident. It helps me be able to talk easier. It like basically changes me when I'm healthily exercising. I have more goals, I have more ambitions. I'm not inside as much. Recently, I've been on a very good exercise schedule. I've been going to the gym for about a month and a half. I've been doing it for years, but then I'll quit for months on end and then try again and then quit again. But this is the farthest that I've come. I've been doing really well recently and I have no vision of stopping, so that's really good. It helps my confidence and it also inspires me to just, I don't know, get better places in life, get better jobs, make money. Who are some of my idols? I don't know. I had to think about this one because I don't know if I look up to a lot of people. There's a couple people I watch online that like have jobs that I would dream of having, like playing video games for a living. It would be super cool because if you're really good, that means you can make money doing what you love. But beyond that, I mean, I don't know. I watch a lot of online people and I guess I'd look up to them, but I don't have that many idols in general. I try and live for myself and live in the moment as much as possible. My last question is what are some of your hobbies and what do you like about them? I'd say my favorite hobby is probably snowboarding. I love snowboarding. I want to make a whole life around snowboarding and I love just being up there, being social with my friends up there. It's amazing. The feeling you get when snowboarding is like euphoria. There's nothing that can describe it beyond amazing. I love baking. I haven't baked in a while, but I do love making sweet treats whenever I want them. I've baked a lot of different things in the past, especially during the pandemic. That was a big thing that also helped me get through it. I would bake almost every day. I would bake different things that I thought sounded good. Yeah, I have baked so many different things. My favorite thing to bake is probably like chocolate chip cookies, though, because they're the simple and they're always good. You can't mess up chocolate chip cookies. As well as like, I don't know, my favorite thing to make when I'm feeling ambitious would be like sticky buns because they like they get they they're pretty hard and they take like five hours but then they're amazing because the way that you make the dough and everything. And yeah, I make everything from scratch, of course. Fan favorite of people who love my baking is creme brulee. I make creme brulee and people always ask me to make it. It's so good and it's only five ingredients. That one's really cool too. creme brulee is like a godsend. I don't know it was made in like the 1600s but somehow hasn't changed from five ingredients which shows you how good it is. What are let me think about more of my hobbies. I do love playing video games. I don't describe that as a hobby except it definitely is. It's it's a lot of my downtime. I'm playing video games, chilling out with my friends in voice chats or whatever, playing all the games we love. As well as the gym. I love going to the gym and I love exercising because at the end of the day, it makes me feel like I deserve the food I eat. It helps me be hungry, for example, but also like just it helps me with everything. Just like sweating out my day once a day is great for everything, especially my mental and physical health. I love what else do I love? I love listening to podcasts. I do that a lot. I listen to people talk about whatever I love comedy podcasts and like stand up though. That's my favorite. I guess Yeah, cars too. I love driving. And I like especially Japanese cars I love my my car is a 1987 Toyota and that one's pretty cool. We've had it in the family for a long time. We have multiple of them but it's it's my favorite and it's a manual to a lot of people don't know how to drive manuals. But of course my family taught me and I've always been into cars for sure. But more than that, just snowboarding realistically is my favorite hobby of all time. I love it. To say the least. And that's all five of my questions. So I hope this is enough for you to take in as my project. Thank you