Reddit reviews Spanish Short Stories 1 / Cuentos hispánicos 1 (Parallel Text) (v. 1) (Spanish and English Edition)

Class - this means me teaching class, not going to class.

Planning - lesson planning for the aforementioned class.

Exercise - a quick 7 minute intensive calisthenics workout.

Wild card - no particular scheduled activity, but the time is reserved for "purple pursuits" - that is, creative or academic projects (which are my priority).

Mathematics - working my way through Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud.

Spanish vocab - I have a book with different pages divided up by category (e.g. body, directions, dimensions). During vocab sessions I work on a single category, adding new words to the page, testing myself on old words, and making example sentences.

Spanish verbs - basically conjugation practice. I have a game (which I made myself) in which I select a verb (infinitive), tense and subject at random and have to conjugate it correctly, then say the English translation. Repeat.

Spanish reading - Reading through Spanish short stories in books like these.

Spanish listening - generally watching clips on YouTube in Spanish.

At some point in the near future I'm going to incorporate physics too (Following this book by Knight). That will probably go into the "Wild Card" spots, and Sunday afternoon will transform from "Relax" into "Wild Card".

I've had to make a few changes from when I first wrote it. The two big ones were: (1) I had originally massively underestimated travel time and food preparation time and (2) I had not counted on my own psychological quirks. Originally I had scheduled lesson planning to happen after pursing my own activities and just before class (reducing the redundancy of having to review the plan before class), but it turns out I don't work that way. To be able to focus on an activity I need to know that my lesson planning is out of the way.

The original also had a lot less redundancy (no "wild card" slots to allow me to catch up on missed activities) and an emptier weekend. I found out that the weekend, when scheduled as 100% "relax" made me feel a bit shitty. I need to feel like I've done something productive every day, even weekends. I ended up using the weekend to catch up on my overly-packed working week, so I lessened the intensity of the weekdays but made my weekend more productive.