Now

I'm making this "Now" page in the spirit of the about-ideas-now site, it's a page about the things I'm doing now, my current projects, and/or the things on my mind in the very short-term future.

Job

I signed up to a program to become a train driver, so now i'll be learning german until March 2025, then i will be learning the train driving things for like, 15 months, then i will be a train driver for 2 years.

I give some reasons/more context on why i signed up here but basically, as i said in the previous iteration of this page, i was looking for jobs with accomodation and this one fit the bill + getting paid to learn german is a bonus + it aligns with my goals of getting as many vehicle licenses as possible.

I did want to mention, that despite now "doing things" (german course + in person etc), i still worry about the same topics that worried me when i had all the time in the world to worry about them, just that now i have less time to think about them. but they still worry me. I mention it, bc i thought that maybe "my issues" would go away after i got busier, but that hasn't been the case (yet, but i don't expect it to ever be the case)

Learning German

Right now we're at B1 class, mostly explanations in Spanish but there's some German spoken in the classroom. I technically already have a B1 level but i feel more or less within the level of the class.

The teacher I have now (which used to be only on fridays in the A2 days) was a train driver too so he gives us some documents and talks to us about the railway sector in german.

Anki

In the last update i mentioned anki to learn geography stuff, now i'm using it for german. just vocabulary from our material. i'm using this template for the cards, works decently.

i should start making B1 vocabulary cards, haven't started yet with that. i tend to put off making cards, because it's a difficult process, finding an example sentence and image that fits, etc.

Youtube

now i only stream on the weekends because of the german course, and i stream for less hours (more like 1h vs the 1h30 that i used to do) bc i usually play pubg after, but i don't think i've missed a weekend, so i'm keeping it consistent within the constraints i have.

they're still not super planned streams and are more or less weekly recaps, but i do some of my usual thinking out loud so i think they're a positive thing.

i do think (and i also mentioned it on stream lol) that i feel stupider/lack ideas, maybe before the course etc i would've thought that "doing things" like, going to a german course, etc. would've made me have more ideas but it has not been the case.

Test drive

I signed up for a test drive of an Alpine car, let's see how it goes, if they even remember we scheduled it lol.

I think it's a little step towards giving more gas (hehe) to my Coches Curiosos project, but who knows.