Introduce yourself here- August 2021
It's time for August's introduce yourself here thread! As always anyone is welcome to answer these questions! 🙂
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
3. What's your favourite sport (e.g. to watch/play/listen to/other)?
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
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1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
Something unique and awkward 🤣
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
The longneck dinosaur - I'm not sure what the scientific name is. I looked it up and I found a bunch of names. I guess there are different types of longnecks, I didn't know this before lol.
3. What's your favourite sport (e.g. to watch/play/listen to/other)?
Hmmmm probably tennis, to play and to watch.
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
Any quality that makes a good friend (compassion, kindness, etc.). I rly admire friends who stand up for you and others. I'm very conflict-avoidant, so I'm a lot more likely to stay quiet and not confront someone if they're doing something wrong, even if what they're doing could be hurting me.
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
Uni's starting again next week so probably getting into a more productive routine. Starting to dedicate more hours for studying, and exercising more.
Haha I did the same for my dinosaur! There are so many long neck ones!
I play tennis too! How long have you been playing for? 😊
That's awesome about your routine! They can be hard for me to keep, but I think it's a little bit every day that adds up! How are you feeling about your routine?
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
I would like to think of myself as the moon walk but im probably just an awkward sprinkler 😂
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
Barney (but for real tyrannosaurs are scary and cool)
3. What's your favourite sport?
I really love to watch the Winter Olympics, especially snowboarding!
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
I really admire when a friend is genuine, caring and appreciates me for who I am 😊
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
I would really love to redirect my focus back onto my mental health. This includes picking up meditation and journalling again (something I have fallen out of since the start of uni and the recent lockdown 😔)
Hi @WinterCalvino It's great to meet you! 😄
Omg "awkward sprinkler" is so relatable - me too!
Snowboarding is so cool! Have you ever done it yourself? I want to, but I'm scared!
I really like your goal as well. I think it's easy for me to let my mental health slip when I'm focusing on study 😔 Journalling and meditation should great though 😊 what sort of meditation do you do?
Hi!! 😊 I'm Emily (she/her) and I'm a new Mod! I'm super excited to be here and can't wait to get to know you! 💙
1. If I were a dance move, it would most likely be awkward and similar to this!
2. My favourite dinosaur is definitely a velociraptor! They were so cool in Jurassic Park!
3. My favourite sport is probably eSports! (Is that a cop-out answer? 😂) I love video games! 🎮
4. The qualities I admire in a friend are: empathy and open-mindedness 💙
5. A goal I'd like to work towards this month is teaching my puppy how to spin around! 🐶😄
Hey Emily! We're excited to have you here! HAHA I love that dance move lol 😛 No! eSports isn't a cop out answer- video games are awesome! Oh my gosh if you are able to teach your puppy this please let us know (if you want!) 😮
Hahaha thanks LSE! 😄 So happy to be here.
Do you play any video games?
And I'll let you know how I go with my puppy! He's quite stubborn 😛
I mean.. I don't play video games in a hardcore kind of way but occassionally I have over the years 😅 and like also played mobile games. The last 'proper' video game I played was spiderman 🤣 I did used to like watching people play video games on youtube though 🙂
Awh I'm sure you can bring your puppy around with food and love 😛 I've never had a dog but I mean we learnt a bit about conditioning and stuff in psych 😅
I'll have a go at answering these questions too!
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
I'm not sure, I would probably be something that involved flailing around doing no dance move in particular
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
Whatever that little dinosaur was in the land before time. I will look this up. Apparently little foot is a Apatosaurus but I mean that's just cause of the nostalgia factor. I like all the dinosaurs pretty equally 🙂
3. What's your favourite sport (e.g. to watch/play/listen to/other)?
I like ice skating and roller skating
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
I like people who like me for who I am and who are honest to me and I can be honest to them. Also humour. And trust. And generosity.
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
I want to figure out what my next steps could be (studying or career wise)
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
Anything
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
I dont know
3. What's your favourite sport (e.g. to watch/play/listen to/other)?
Every sport
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
Loyatly, trust, honesty and not toxic
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
To make friends
Hey @charlotte_ashley welcome to the forums! I think those are important qualities in friends too! Making friends is a great goal! 🙂 I find it can be helpful to break goals down into small steps because making friends can seem like a bit of a daunting goal to some people and they can struggle with it- what do you think? However, some people find it a little easier to make friends and if this is the case for you- I'm sure other people reading would appreciate some tips with making friends if you do have any 🙂 (Also there's no pressure to reply if you don't want to!)
Thanks i've never had friends before so i wanted to make some.
Hey @charlotte_ashley, great job at putting yourself out there! Making friends can be tough sometimes but it is really awesome when you find the right people. What types of things would you like to do with friends? Do you have any hobbies? 💓
That's okay @charlotte_ashley! Making friends can be really hard- I struggle with it too. What do you think a first step could be towards meeting new people and making friends? Are there any people you've met that you would like to be friends with?
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
I would be the splits!! (Idk if this is a dance move but it’s my party trick)
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
Triceratops- think they’re kind of cute
3. What's your favourite sport (e.g. to watch/play/listen to/other)?
Not really a huge sport fan but I don’t mind going to the footy occasionally
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
The big one for me is loyalty- this is a quality that I try to maintain in all friendships as I think it’s so important! For me it’s really comforting to know that what someone is saying to you is what they would also be saying to others.
5. What's a goal (big or small!) you might like to work towards this month?
Getting a bit chunk of my thesis done!
I wish I could do the splits @Bingo1234! So cool! Ooh, let us know how your thesis goes if you want! What's it on (if that's okay to ask)?
*Trigger warning*
I definitely will! Due date is October so fingers crossed it all gets done. The project is the relationship between childhood trauma and physical disorders in adulthood in women with borderline personality disorder/ complex trauma disorder .
Love these questions! really creative 😊
1. If you were a type of dance or dance move, what would you be?
Something flaily and uncoordinated, for sure!
2. What's your favourite species of dinosaur?
I reckon a Brontosaurus. They seem like they would have been gentle giants
3. What's your favourite sport?
To play, tennis 🎾 to watch, I've been enjoying the olympics. I like watching diving, gymnastics and athletics the best
4. What qualities do you admire in a friend?
The main thing would be someone who is genuine
5. What's a goal you might like to work towards this month?
I'd like to complete my sketching course! I've been enjoying properly learning drawing this lockdown.
I look forward to hearing others' answers 💜
Thanks @clarii3105! @WheresMySquishy actually came up with most of the questions I just wrote them up 🙂
Lol I can definitely relate to the uncoordinated dance 😆 The diving and gymnastics in the olympics is so impressive!
