May HPUD | Mall Hopping and Coffee With Friends

I almost forgot that today is Hive Power Up Day. Since the first day of this year, I have made it a point to track my progress in everything that I am doing and learning about be it in homeschooling, in Hive, or pretty much everything about life. The reason I almost forgot about the HPUD is because I met up with the HivePH peeps again before Hive account@wittyzell heads to her next destination and before Hive account@adamada goes home. I have been going out too much this month, even stayed out overnight for the HivePH Meetup last Saturday. When I got home tonight, my daughter was still awake and told me as soon as I got to bed, "Nanay, I hereby ban you from going out and going home late at night. And no overnight sleepovers either." Oh well, I don't think I'll be going out anytime soon.

I met with Hive account@lhes, Hive account@cindee08, and Hive account@sensiblecast. We went to Venice Piazza to have lots of coffee, talk about life and everything under the sun, and pretty much just have a good laugh. We have been planning the HivePH meetup and all the days we were together were just preplanned. It was nice to have a day without any itinerary and to just hang out.

If you're going to Venice Piazza, there's a lot you can do actually. There's the gondola ride which we did not do. We thought it would feel awkward to ride the gondola and be watched by everyone in the mall. So we just walked around, had some pics here and there, looked at the sights all around the mall. One of the beautiful sights you can find in Venice Piazza is the bridge with all the love locks. I think they may have changed the locks on there because the last time I was still working around the area, the bridge was almost full of locks and some of them were rusty. Now, there's so many blank spaces. I prefer how it looks now than before.

As for my progress, I tried my best to keep my daily posting streak but with everything that happened in April, I missed a day or 2. But it's fine, I'll still continue posting everyday. I need to give myself some slack. I did do a lot of things last April. With all the changes happening in the schooling system mandated by DepEd, and the HivePH Meetup, I'm surprised I was still able to keep posting and interacting in Hive everyday.

I gained some amazing learnings this April too. I learned how to use gouache, I learned how to do still life using watercolor, and I was able to apply new techniques with the paint brushes on my painting practice sessions.

I was also able to make the habit of applying sunscreen everyday. With the heat wave happening, we need to make sure that we stay cool, hydrated, and of course, keep our skin protected from the harmful UV rays.

I am learning a new language right now. I started it in March, continued on in April and is still doing it now. No, I'm not fluent yet. I am not even at a conversational level yet. I still have yet to be able to translate the sentences word by word, then speak them as properly as I can. I know I'll get there. Learning a new language will definitely take a lot of time.

As for my Hive power and HBD goals, I did not reach the latter. I did exemplary job though with my Hive Power. I am going to try a few more new things so that I can reach my HBD goals this month. I also am planning on acquiring more tokens to help me grow my account even more.

I can say that April has been so eventful, but I have seen a lot of good progression in terms of my growth both in real life and in my Hive profile. I plan on continuing the same and hope to do so much better this month.