#also a few of my students performed 🥺🥺 they were so great

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[asaka-lucy-dr-rc]

The story of how Kizakura-sensei recruited each student was really interesting. It was in the form of an audio drama, but it was more fulfilling than I had expected, and there was about the equivalent of two or three episodes of anime.

Gundham said he had about 40,000 demons under his command, but was that number mentioned anywhere else? There was also mention of a demon group called "108魔星 (Demonic Stars)", but I wasn't sure which animals were classified as such, so I'm curious.

There was a story that Ryota Mitarai made anime in his high school anime club, but he was so incredibly good that the other members asked him to leave the club because of his talent. (One member said it put pressure on them.) It was a sad story, but I could understand how he ended up making anime on his own.

I wondered how he found and recruited Imposter, but it made sense that Imposter approached Kizakura-sensei himself. (Given that he enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy of his own volition, I think it makes sense that he took the initiative to protect his classmates in the main story of DR2).

The exchanges between Leon and Kizakura-sensei were SO funny 😂😂 Awww, what a silly, cute boy. I have a lot to talk about this, so I'd like to draw something based on the story, even if it's just a doodle.

Sayaka's story was also great. The fact that she puts salt in her coffee is too shocking for words 😂 It was a story that really expressed her charm, where you couldn't tell if she was serious or just trying to make herself look cute. I was also surprised to learn that Kizakura-sensei has a daughter. (Maybe? It was just implied, so it was not clearly stated.)

It's also pretty crazy that Chihiro gave Alter Ego the hacking function from the beginning. When Chihiro introduces Alter Ego, Alter Ego hacks into the teacher information at Hope's Peak Academy and looks at Kizakura-sensei's profile and his bank withdrawal history without permission. Why does this dangerous invention of Chihiro's go unchecked...? 😂

The part where Toko misunderstands that Kizakura-sensei wants her to write a light novel was too funny. I'd like to draw a little doodle for that, too.

The episode about Celeste and gyoza was really great. I love the fact that she loves gyoza 🥺💕 I thought she might not like her hometown (since it's pretty rural), but my impression of her changed quite a bit when I learned that she participates in a ridiculous underground casino in her hometown (where they play gyoza Russian roulette). It was also interesting that she said she was worthy of Ultimate Lucky. Kizakura-sensei said that the Ultimate Lucky Student for this year had already been decided when he scouted Celeste, so the drawing for the Ultimate Lucky Student may be held quite early 🤔

Kazuichi drove a motorcycle after taking Kimura-senpai's medicine against travel sickness... (She is a very convenient person to think of stories. lol) Kazuichi's episode was interesting too, but it was relatively serious, maybe because the scriptwriter was different.

The performances of the voice actors were all wonderful, and the way in which the music and sound effects were added was very careful and of a very high quality. There are a few more stories I want to delve into, so hopefully I can write about them again sometime with some doodles...

[wa-nathalia-inhesta]

Life and a reflection about soft skills

Although back in Brazil I graduated in Languages - Portuguese/ English, I didn’t actually worked in this field. It was only around the pandemic period that I got the chance to do it so by doing some freelance translation/ interpretation jobs - which proved not to be enough for a living since it is was very sporadic 😕, and also not possible to be pursued as a career due to visa issues (as I am a Brazilian based in Ireland since 2019 under a student visa type).

On the last years of university in Brazil I was working in a bank, and after the graduation I just kept working there. Prior to this experience, I was mostly performing administrative type of jobs.

After moving to Ireland to do an English exchange program, all the jobs I had (with the exception of the translation freelance ones) were in the hospitality industry. As of now I am still working in this industry (as Barista/ Cashier in a local Café), but instead of English course, I am doing a Master’s Degree.

I chose the course Interactive Digital Media for my Master’s Degree as I saw in it an opportunity to start off a new career afterwards.

However, between work, assignments, classes, home chores, more assignments, social life (the lack of it), homesick 🥺, sickness 🤧, more assignments, and life in general, there’s few or no time at all for practicing just for the sake of practicing what I am learning in college. 

And this has been something that constantly worries me as we are heading the end of the course, and experience (meaning practice) is essential to get one a nice job. 

In an attempt to see things from a more positive perspective – and trying to push away the feeling of overwhelm, I started thinking about all the things that I have accomplished already, and also the important strengths I have – such as resilience and determination.

As in most of the jobs, working in the computing/ tech field also requires problem-solving, creativity, adaptability, communication and work ethic. All of these are soft skills that can be developed as much as hard skills. However, for being more related to interpersonal relationships and emotional intelligence, I believe that they have more chances to be developed in a daily basis, through routinary situations of life, and this brought me some peace as I believe I am constantly developing those soft skills – sometimes without even noticing. 

I found in Harvard Business Review a great source of inspiration for reading interesting and thoughtful articles related to that, which are basically articles about management, communication, negotiation, work ethic, problem-solving and so on. Reading those articles made me realize that soft skills are as important as hard skills - as they are complementary, and if I my hard skills are in development my soft skills are just getting sharper day after day :)