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title: "Boring civics class, blood drawn, and lime coke"
description: "First day back after teacher strikes, downloading my Google data, and anxiously waiting for a job test project."
date: "2019-05-09"
---

Welcome! Today it was my first day in school since last month. Teachers in my country went on strike, so we didn't have classes. But the strike is over — and so is my free time.

I had easy classes today: civics, English, two hours of Polish, and that's it. Civics was the worst. My teacher somehow changes the speed of the clock — I always feel like it's two hours instead of one. Today's topic actually wasn't that bad though; we were talking about the European Union and how it works, because last week was the 15th anniversary of Poland joining the EU. Tomorrow I have a day off because I'm going to the doctor.

After school I went home, watched a new episode of Riverdale on Netflix, and then downloaded my Google, Snapchat, and Facebook data. I found a few interesting things — for example, I didn't know that when Google tracks my location, it saves whether I was walking or driving. I also found some really embarrassing things from my past.

I've been checking my email for almost 8 days now. I'm waiting for a test project that will decide if I'm going to get a job as a C++ Software Engineer. I'm so pumped about this but also a little afraid. If I get this job, I'd have to keep up with school and work at the same time. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'll figure it out later. The job is 100% remote so that's at least good news. I've never worked before so all of this is new to me, and I'm thrilled.

I haven't had dinner yet and I'm literally starving — I had blood drawn this morning and couldn't have breakfast, so today I've eaten only two chocolate bars and drank lime coke so far.

I think that's it for now. Really, I gotta eat something.
