July 20, 2024

Dear Diary,

Today is Saturday, July 20, 2024. The weather is sunny.

Because today is a day off, I can spend a lot of time studying English. I have compiled the names of all the movies I have watched or want to watch and the names of the main characters. You can see a Movies menu under my Diaries. I organized these because they could all be material for conversation. Everyone's life experiences are a kind of talking point. The biggest problem for adults learning English is that they can't express their existing talking points in English, so I hope to first remember their English names.

At noon, I studied Duolingo for an hour. Now I am ranked second on the diamond leaderboard. I hope to be ranked first by the end of this week so that I can get the rare gem badge.

In the afternoon, I started taking an English course for developers that I previously found on Twitter. It's called A2 English for Developers. During class, I realized that I couldn't remember the city names in the course, which reminded me of another batch of vocabulary I wanted to organize, specifically locations. So in the afternoon, I organized the names of major cities in all countries and continents. You can see it under Movies.

I watched three episodes of The Orville last night, but I only found two of them interesting. Episode 8 is about the doctor on the spaceship preparing to go on vacation with her two sons, accompanied by Isaac (who comes from a robot civilization). While flying in space, they encountered a space rift. In a moment of crisis, due to the mischief of the two children, a phone was smashed onto the control panel, causing the spaceship to be sucked into the space rift. The space rift transported them to a distant star region, but the spaceship was severely damaged and was about to crash, so they had to make an emergency landing on an oxygen-rich planet.

Unfortunately, the spacecraft split into two parts during the crash landing, separating the doctor from them. The doctor was knocked unconscious and taken away by a local. Isaac had to take care of the two children. During this process, Isaac not only protected the two children but also educated them, making them treat their mother better. Eventually, the doctor escaped back to the crash site of the spaceship. She found that her two children had changed, so she was very grateful to Isaac.

Episode 9 is very funny. The first scene of the first season is about the protagonist's wife having an affair with a blue-skinned alien. That blue-skinned alien appeared again in this episode; it turns out he is also an archaeologist. In this episode, they receive a mission to mediate the conflict between two alien races and prevent them from going to war. The two alien races have been fighting over the ownership of a planet. This time, they discover an ancient artifact and reach an agreement to determine the original inhabitants of the planet by analyzing the DNA of the ancient artifact. The planet will belong to the race identified as the earliest inhabitants.

In this process, the protagonist's ex-wife actually slept with the blue-skinned alien. The funny thing is, somehow, the protagonist also fell in love with him and wanted to sleep with him too. During this process, because the male protagonist fell deeply in love, he completely ignored the aliens from the two races. So they decided to go to war. Seeing that a great war was inevitable, in the end, two members of different alien races suddenly fell in love. It turns out that when that blue-skinned alien is in heat, something is produced on his skin that makes people fall in love with him...

Goodnight, Diary. Until tomorrow.

Best, Jasper Van