A productive day in my life: Packing and moving abroad 🇮🇹

This video is sponsored by Japanese monthly subscription box Sakurako.

Hi guys, it's me Dudi! For those who are not familiar with this channel, I'm about to become a medical student in Italy. Actually, my med school has already started, and I'm supposed to attend the lectures online, but I haven't really because I've been prioritizing YouTube over med school, and I couldn't really fit into my schedule like the whole med school stuff. But I'm gonna do that!

Today's Wednesday, and in a couple of days, I'm moving to Italy. By the time you're watching this, I'm already in Italy, and today I want to take you guys along for a productive day in my life. If you have watched any of my vlogs, you know that coffee is a massive part of my life. These days, I've been trying to limit my caffeine intake. I try not to drink more than two cups a day because it messes up my sleep schedule and makes my teeth look yellow.

I try not to eat breakfast because I'm trying to practice autophagy. For those who are unfamiliar with the term autophagy, let me explain it. Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content—a process called autophagy. So, the basic idea behind autophagy is that in the absence of external sources of food, the body begins to eat itself, destroying and recycling its damaged cells, bits, and proteins so that new and healthy versions can be built.

Fasting activates autophagy, which helps slow down the aging process and has a positive impact on cell renewal. Autophagy is believed to be essential for helping protect against diseases like cancer and dementia, among others. Since the Nobel Prize in Japan is so awesome, there's so many books in Japan about autophagy and its benefits that are not translated into English. So, if you guys are ever into this topic, I can make a video about it. Just let me know in the comments down below.

The last time, if I recall, after enjoying my coffee and listening to some podcasts, I go upstairs and I start to clean my desk. I'm a really messy person, but when it comes to my desk, it has to be clean and organized; otherwise, I just can't work. My room is messy AF, but my desk is organized and clean always. I don't usually cry at all after cleaning up my desk, and setting the mood, I started to plan my day on Google Calendar using Google Keep and Notion—all of them combined.

If you guys want a video about how to plan your day, week, month, whatever, I updated my system, so let me know in the comments below so that I can make a video about it. After planning my day and scheduling, I start to work on the upcoming videos.

After semi-finishing my script, I go downstairs and I try to teach my mom how to use Google Calendar. She saw how I use my Google Calendar, and she wanted to learn it. But the problem with these 50-year-old women is that she doesn't understand anything about technology.

After spending about a good hour, I give up and decide to make a video about it so that I can just send a link to my mom. Most of the people think that YouTubers do, like, filming and editing, and that is the majority and chunk of the work that they do. But the reality is actually scripting; the script takes quite a lot of time.

After a 90-minute solid work session, I eat what my mom cooked for me. I'm currently in Italy, and I'm cooking for myself, and the struggle is real. It doesn't taste good; it's at least healthy. I know that it's healthy, but it's not really good, so I probably should learn asap how to cook because this girl is so used to eating delicious meals every day.

After having my delicious lunch, I have a quick afternoon tea session. This month's Sakurako's theme is afternoon tea, so the thing that we call oyatsu in Japanese. You can enjoy Hanami picnic at your home. The thing that I really love about Sakurako is that it's not only about the snacks, but it's also about the Japanese culture. It has like a cultural guide booklet, and in that booklet, every month they will introduce to you some stuff about traditional Japanese culture.

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After a yummy and fun afternoon tea session, I go upstairs and start to work more on my upcoming videos. On Monday, so on Valentine’s Day, I’m actually launching a membership on Viably, which I will explain in further videos, and I was working on that, so stay tuned.

Since I'm moving to Italy, I needed to cancel my gym membership, and I also had to pack some stuff from my apartment. After canceling my gym membership, we decided to meet at Sakagura, which is one of my favorite Japanese restaurants in Kaduko.

We had a little bit of time until then, so we decided to walk around the town with my mom in Kaduko. I kind of felt sad because I know that I'm going to leave this city, leave this country that I lived for the majority of my life, and I'll probably never be back. So, it made me really sad, but yeah, after that, we arrived at Sakagura.

The owner is Japanese, and also the workers are Japanese too; the chef is Japanese. So, you can talk to them in Japanese if you want to practice Japanese. I think it's a great way.

So, I ordered two high, which is whiskey combined with soda; it tastes really good. So if you want to, like, ever try it at home, try it; it tastes really good. I might even, I don't know, insert a recipe of it.

I'm leaving Turkey, and I'm starting a new journey. I don't know; I'm really worried because I don't know Italian. I will be in a city that I never lived before. I have no one; I literally have no one, like none of my family members in Italy or none of my friends are in Italy.

Yeah, actually, I have a couple of friends, but like, you know, not like someone that I can call when I have an emergency, and they can help me out and stuff. So, it will be hard probably, and on top of that, I'm gonna study medicine, and on top of that, I'm a full-time YouTuber, so I have a business that I have to take care of because that is how I afford everything.

After eating a lot of sushi, we decided to walk to my apartment. It takes actually quite a lot of time to walk there, but since we ate a lot—especially me—we decided to walk so that we can digest a bit the things that we ate. At least we're just like trying to convince ourselves that we're gonna burn the calories that we ate, but that's not true.

We arrived at my apartment school, and I packed stuff from my apartment so that I can bring them to Italy. I think this vlog was filmed like a couple of days before flying to Italy. In order to get into the flight, I needed to get a PCR test done. So we came to this Cham Sakura hospital, which is like a huge hospital, and I don't know why, but it's like called champs—literally like Japanese cherry blossoms.

Don't you think that it fits to the Sakura this month's theme? What a coincidence!

Told my brothers one day we gonna make it; we just gotta.

After getting PCR tested, I came back home, I did my skincare, and I lay on my bed. I read some books on Kindle. These days before going to bed, I try to read at least around like 10 minutes; I usually end up reading 30 minutes or so, and it adds a lot of value to my life.

Like before going to bed, it's really calm; nobody distracts you; you're reading a good book. Most of the time, I read books about generally like self-improvement, self-help, productivity, philosophy, and about like money, finance, and a lot of different stuff. I like to expand my knowledge, so I don’t really read novels.

But if you guys have any like novel recommendations, let me know in the comments down below. I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog, and thank you, Sakura, for sponsoring this video. Bye for now!