Hello everyone, it has been a long time since my last English entry here on Journaly. Recently I've been focusing my time on learning Russian and for me, it was hard to write something in other languages. It's weird to say that I couldn't write in “other languages”, because one of my first entries was in Italian and when I started to write frequently it was at the same time I started to study Italian. I think I wrote just five entries in that language, and I feel like I'm not as interested in Italian as I was before. I'm feeling guilty, but I know I don't have to feel like this, and what I think now, is that I won't stop studying Italian. What I'm going to do is to just take a break for a while, because it helps me relieve my guilt. The reason I didn't write anything in English was that I didn't have the time to do it, and I thought it'd be better to think of something that would be interesting to me, and write about it. I think that I have to write when I like the subject, and not because I have to write in English.

Thinking about it, I've decided to write about what I've been doing in this time, and possibly write about what I want to do in the next month. The first thing I want to write about, is my experience reading my first book in English. Possibly you know I was reading “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and I decided to read it because I wanted to get closer to the Russian culture. As I said before, I read it in English. In the first pages I felt like I was doing well, because I was interested in the story even before reading the first words of the book. I finished it in 2 months, and I think I could have finished in less time. I took so long to finish it because I read just one chapter a day, and when I had the time and disposition to read more than one chapter, I could read just two a day. In a matter of time, I think that in the very beginning I could read one chapter (≅ 10 pages) in almost one hour. I didn't think I'll read so slowly, but… anyway. I finished the book in 14/04, and since I finished it, I've been searching for another book. In this time, I decided to pick up “1984” by George Orwell. I bought the book, and it's already been in my hands since last Friday, but I haven't read it yet. I was reading “Crime and Punishment” from 8:00 to 9:30 every night. But my stepfather said that I was spending too much time away from my family, because we were only together for that period of the night. To be honest I was selfish, because I didn't think about it, but now I'll read in other periods of the day.

Recently I started watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by Disney+, and I finished it last Saturday. I think they got it right, because the legacy of Captain America in the movies will be affected if they hadn't continued the story. Thinking about the other characters, they deserved to have their own series/films, because they have great potential for the plot. My favorite character was Baron Zemo, I don't know… I like the character since the Civil war. He was the guy who didn't have powers, and even though he succeeds in separate and “destroy” the Avengers. I think he's underestimated by everyone, and he was misused in the franchise, but I like him. By liking the character, I started watching The Alienist, it's a TV series played by Daniel Brühl (Baron Zemo). I'm watching the second season, and I'm liking it, even though they are focusing so much in another character, which doesn’t live up to the name of the TV series.

In my free time I decided to learn and practice chess, and I'm having a good time by doing it. I could be scrolling my Instagram feed, but instead of doing that, I'm playing chess and reading books. Last Saturday I watched the UFC, and I really liked it, because there were three title shots in the main card. I liked it, even though there was something awful. What happened was that Chris Weidman suffered an injury, he broke his leg, and it was sad to watch. It reminds me of his fight against Anderson Silva, when Anderson broke his leg in the same way. Well, aside of it I really liked the three title shots, because I was rooting for all those who won haha.

I think it was all for today, see you next time!