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G = Geronimo Stilton 🧀

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Lmao so it's been almost a month since I last posted anything - funny how now that I'm on break w ample of time, I'm less bothered to write a blog post then when I have a full day of placement and more independent learning to do after...😅 (no, defs not using blogging as a more "productive" form of procrastination...not at all...) Anyways, continuing with my abc reflection series,  G = Geronimo Stilton  Must confess, the first thing that actually came to mind when I thought of G was Geris (geriatrics), but I honestly don't have much to say about that topic except to note that I have already been infected by the occupational hazard of linking everything to med...💀 Geronimo Stilton, on the other hand, is literally my childhood. In fact, ordering English books through Scholastic Inc magazines was one of the main highlights of the school year (honestly I have no idea where else to get English books in China back in the early 2000s and still no idea now lol). It...

I'm totally stealing an idea from my fav podcaster!!!!

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Shout-out to Toni & Ryan (you can find them on YouTube, Spotify, Apple podcast, patreon etc), the only podcast I actually follow religiously and makes my commute back from placement during peak hour 10000x more bearable, but imma steal an idea from them which is a post a day for 26 days, alphabet themed, i.e. I write about the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the specific alphabet of the day 😁😃👀💣 (maybe TMI but we rolling w it XD)  Today's letter is obviously A! A = apple, so fcking basic but sums up much of my childhood LOL → was a big apple juice drinker and an apple a day (fuji, pink lady, granny smith, u name it, i've probably ate it) kinda gurl from the start of my memory to about 10ish, before betraying apple for orange juice (found apple juice to sweet all of sudden, no precipitating event or incidence LOL).  The apple juice I remember most fondly is Qoo 苹果汁 (literally apple juice in Chinese 😂), but specifically the one with a sippy cap and a neck...