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It’s been a year since I joined HP back in Lima 2017. And in the same year, I joined their Chiang Mai and Phnom Penh trip. Fast forward to 2018, I recently spent 2 weeks with them in Bali.

Since then they’ve hired more facilitators to support concurrent trips across 3 continents.

With my experience joining all the different trips, I want to highlight again the 2 best things about the Hacker Paradise program. Those being professional development and access o the alumni network.

So, today is day four of the vlog. Wait, is it day four or day five? But, yeah. I’ve been sleeping the whole day today and it’s now the evening. What time is it? Ah, I forgot my watch. But, it’s like I don’t know 6:30 pm? The sun is still up. I’m not sure what I want to do, I haven’t eaten anything yet. I’m either going to a restaurant or I’m just going to go to the cinema and then have something to eat nearby. But, I’ve got to figure out if they have any nice restaurants nearby the cinema. So, we will see what we do today.

Alright, so I’ve just decided. I will go to the cinema and watch a movie. I’m either going to watch Rampage or Black Panther. Let’s see if they have any good seats available. I’m sure there is because it’s Thursday and I don’t think a lot of people go to the cinema on Thursday. I’m going to watch a movie and depending on the timing, I will either go to dinner after the movie or before.

Hello and welcome to day four of my Vlog. On this Vlog, it’s going to be much, much shorter & you won’t actually see my face in this Vlog because I actually slept the whole day and didn’t wake up until the evening so my schedule is really screwed up right now. It’s really funny that everywhere I go. It doesn’t matter if it’s in Europe, Asia, North America or South America, anywhere in the world. Eventually, I will default to being a night owl. I’ll be awake the whole night & when the morning comes, I’ll be tired & I’ll sleep the whole day. That’s very useful if I actually have work to do because I usually work best at night when it’s quiet and when nobody’s awake. But, when you are actually on holiday & trying to enjoy all of the attractions & all of the fun places to be, it’s not great that you are not awake during the day.

But, moving on. Today when I woke up I remembered that it was Wednesday & there is an improv comedy show in the city. So, I went to the improv comedy Copenhagen theater in the city, and they have shows from Wednesdays to Sundays, so I might be going more than once this week. For those of you don’t know who improv comedy is, here is an explanation from the host.

Hello everyone, welcome to day 3 of my vlog here in Copenhagen. As you can see I am not wearing a jacket right now. Because yesterday I forgot to buy a new jacket. The down jacket was too heavy. So, now I am forcing myself not to wear a jacket. It’s nine degrees and it’s very cold. I’m walking towards a proper shopping mall so that my first goal of the day is to actually buy a hoodie or a smaller jacket. We will see if the shopping mall has my size or not.

So, I am in the shopping mall right now and it seems that there is a clothing store that has plus sizes for men. I’m going to see if that’s the case and see if I can get a nice jacket today.

Alright, I was on my way to city hall to meet up for the free walking tour. Um, but I was almost there and I was thinking I forgot my wallet back home. So, I am not going to be doing the free walking tour today. I am going to go home and get my wallet and go back out again. Go shopping for some new shoes and jacket. Probably like a hoodie, like this jacket is, right now it is almost spring and it is like overkill.

So yea, we will see if my wallet is back home or if someone nicked it.  Um, yea I think it is back home because this morning I was rushing and I wasn’t paying attention. So hopefully it is there. So far I haven’t got any SMS notifications that my card has been charged. Usually, if someone nicks your wallet and you have a bunch of credit cards they will start immediately using it.