Trying Something New

Given most of us have a lot more time on our hands right now, we opted it would be a good idea to branch out of our comfort zones and adopt some activities outside our regular routines. Each student took up a goal unfamiliar to them and stuck to it for a week, hence the title “Trying Something New”. Below are their thoughts and opinions on the tasks each person decided to partake in.

• Making a New Beat from Scratch
  If you are a rap fan, I am pretty sure you are familiar with the producer tags like “Jetson made another one” or “Metro Boomin want some more”. As a long time rap fan, I have listened to many artists like Kanye West, Nas, Eazy E and new school rappers like Polog G, Lil Baby ...
• Trying Something New: Meditation
  Silence. It’s not a concept I’m entirely familiar with since I am very outgoing. I wanted to try it because meditation to me seems to be connected with gratitude, which is something I struggle with saying because it requires me to admit that I’m wrong at times. This pushed me out of my comfort zone ...
• Learning Korean
  2015 was the year I became a huge fan of kpop which later exposed me to Korean dramas, Korean shows, Korean beauty and Korean food. Since then it has always been one of my top goals to learn the Korean language. Learning a new language is nothing new to me as I have taken language ...
• A Journey Through Food
  During a worldwide pandemic Covid-19 has blessed me with the opportunity to make deeper relations with individuals besides my family, I am thankful to have befriended my significant other in a time of complete isolation. I have been able to learn so much from this individual, his hobbies, his passions, his pet peeves ...
• Getting into Podcasts
  There is too much time that I have during this pandemic. There isn’t really much to do apart from be on my computer or sleeping. I’ve heard that podcasts are a good time killer if you need something to listen to. However, I’ve never been interested in trying podcasts since I thought they were boring ...
• Reading A Book
  What I did was read a book, something that I haven’t done in a long time mainly due to everything being online recently, and also the fact that I really dislike reading. I wanted to try and read something new because as time goes on, most things are becoming digital and accessible online and I ...
• Trying Yoga for the First Time
  A couple of weeks ago I started to try something new that i’ve never done before or even thought of doing. The new activity I started to do is yoga. Yoga is something that I always see as something for older people to do so that they stretch and get their daily movements going. ...
• My Cooking Experience for the First Time
  Cooking is something I thought about learning eventually, but to this point I’ve never set aside time to try. But I thought I would get out of my comfort zone and cook something which was new and that I never had. I thought about what I was in the mood to eat and chicken came ...
• Trying Something New: In the Kitchen
  The new thing that I decided to try for the week was to cook new recipes that I’ve never tried before. I’ve had a passion for cooking ever since I was a little kid so this was something that I was super excited for. Recently I’ve only been cooking simple foods like toast, cereal, and ...
• Making Gourmet Food
  Growing up in an Asian household, food was always around me. My family made all different types of food: Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, French, Italian, you name it and we would make it. From a young age, my stomach was filled with the different colors of diversity, leading me to learn how to cook all different ...