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CATCHING UP WITH MY FUTURE SELF (2026) // Spanish Comprehensible Input, *intermediate* || SAH

Spanish After Hours8:15

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Summer, 2020. Eh, 2020, the first half got out of hand. This has been a bit chaotic, and I hope that the second half of 2020 doesn't get worse. I mean, it can't get worse. Wait, wait, let me... I'm going to touch wood because I'm going to say that it can't get worse, only for it to get worse. It's best not to say a thing.

I don't know how you'll be, but I hope that if it's 2026, for the love of god, you are not in Madrid. Please get out of that city. I am begging you because, at least now... right now, I don't like it at all. If you like Madrid in 2026, I'm going to have a stroke. I mean, something has had to happen. I don't know, you have fallen in love or something, I don't know.

Yesterday, us cousins were playing. We were Marina, Sebas, María, and I. And Sebas said something I found really funny, because Marina is now 26. And Sebas said: "Hey Marina! You are now closer to your 30s than to your 20s!" And I found it to be really funny, so: "Hey Laura! You are now closer to your 30s than to your 20s!" I'll hit myself in your stead, I'll hit myself in your stead.

Don't procrastinate and do the things that you have to do now... Or you are never going to do them. Why am I lecturing myself? Ok, next.

I hope that by 2026 your Korean is good, good. And that you start, or have already started, with another one of those languages that I wanna study now, which are: Italian, Portuguese... (?) Italian, Portuguese... What else? Italian, Portuguese, and French. Because studying languages is like collecting cards. You start, and can't stop. I mean, it's like: "I want more, more, and more..." So yeah... I hope that you are learning languages like now, very good.

Something else I wanted to say: Well, I love listening to music, you already know it. I think you will also enjoy it. And right now, the music that you are listening to the most, well, it's Korean music. You really like rap and hip hop. What kind of music will you listen to in 2026? I hope you are not a bore, Laura. How am I going to be a bore? I am sure you are super cool.

You have a playlist called 'writing fantasy'... because when you write, you like listening to a certain kind of music, motivating music. Laura, please tell me that by 2026 you have written a book... please! I want to write a book. Please tell me you have written it and that you have done something with it, not that it's there, hidden in a drawer, please. Write a book, write 2, 3, 4, as many as you want. But write, please!

And your favorite artist of the year, pH-1, Korean artist, came out with this album called... well, I call it X, but it's called... I think *The Worst Album*. *Nope*. Look, you cannot stop listening to the darn album on repetition, and obviously, it's going to be pH-1, your artist of the year... I wonder who your artist of the year will be in 2026. What kind of music you listen to and who is the artist you are listening to the most?

I have an eczema on my finger since... a year and a half...? Approximately? I have an eczema, here, that at first was in this part of my finger, but it has moved and now it is here. And when I cook, ok? When I cut some vegetables or when I rinse some vegetables, or when I do the dishes, it starts burning. It becomes red, red, red, fiery red, and it burns, it burns a lot, it's super hot. I should go to the doctor, but I don't want to... Anyway. And some skin comes off, so I hope that you don't have this by then. Because it has been a year and a half, I repeat.

So what I do these days, now that I am in Tenerife, is: out here, there is some aloe vera, so I: 1st: Go. 2nd: Take the aloe vera. 3rd: Apply some on my finger. The thing is that, in shops, it's all a lie. I mean, it must be processed and... processed again aloe vera, because the aloe vera directly from the plant smells horrible. I have to apply it on my finger and I am like this: Because it smells horrible, I swear, I don't like it.

I'm going to show you how the aloe vera thing: How to get aloe vera. (In case your finger hurts, like mine). We get scissors for a faster product extraction. I have to make sure that none can see me, just in case. Ok, one second. The disadvantage is that up here lives the head of the community, the big boss. And I don't want him to catch me in the act, stealing aloe vera. We got it! Ok, it smells horribly, but anyway, now what... What we have to do is this, very easy. It has a very beautiful chlorophyll green color. It's all sticky. Anyway. This is what one has to do for... for eczemas. Disgusted. And now, it goes in the fridge. Carefully. Actually, I am going to use a plate. Now the finger, I move it away because it smells horrible. And...

Ah! Let's talk about food. Lately, since you are in Tenerife, and you cook for yourself, you eat horribly. I eat horribly. I eat pizza, frozen pizza, a lot of hard-boiled eggs. Here you have tomatoes, you eat a lot of tomatoes. I eat, I, eat a lot of tomatoes. I spend the whole day drinking milk. I mean, it's... I bought milk... I bought milk on Saturday, and I finished a whole liter by Sunday. I mean... In a day, I have drunk 1 liter of milk, because I won't stop eating milk with cereals, cereals with milk... Gazpacho, from a brick. Uh, sauces, are very important. You have here several sauces. Chimbote. And well, to be honest, I only eat... I don't eat much more. It's all pretty much junk food.

Do you drink coffee? I don't like coffee. I only drink water, milk, and orange juice or lemon juice. And I add some sugar sometimes, but I don't drink alcohol, and I don't drink coffee, nor tea. I have tried to drink tea so many times, but I don't like the taste. I hope that if you, if you drink anything, you learn to drink tea, please.

See you in 2026. I hope it goes well for me!