By Michael Smith on Thursday, 20 August 2026
Category: Candidate Journals

Day 33 (8/20/26)

Today felt the most like a Sunday than an actual Sunday. Today was a pretty easy day to get everything done and I spent a lot of time with family. I did all of my requirements by noon and I was recording my second verse of my song which was way harder to rap than the first verse. I have a speech impediment and that makes it difficult to say everything the way I want to say it while also staying on beat. I did finish it but I'm gonna re do it to try and make it better. After that I had a mentee session with Matteo on Poomsaes and it's making me realize teaching is really hard when you're teaching a forgetful person. I'm that kind of person that has to be told the same things over and over again to break a bad habit of whatever I was doing. I keep seeing the same couple mistakes and I don't know if I'm saying it wrong or something like that or maybe it's just him. It was me for a while when Master Weeks first started teaching me. After the Mentee session we waited in line at Chipotle for maybe 2 hours for a buy one entre get one free deal I think if I remember correctly. After that I went home and ate my bowl. I spent some time with my Dad after eating and we watched a lot of old American Idol videos and one had a rhythm that caught my eye. Then I went upstairs and watched Rio Leyva's process to making beats and I got inspired by it and started making it. After all of that I wrote this.

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