Great job, everyone! Thanks to @Rory Yuan, @Ryan Li, @Lee Tree, @Emily Huang, @Soooda Feng, @Siyi Yu, @Blair Zeng, @Huicong Zhang, @Tina Huang, @Flora Zhang, and @Jun Tang for your focused practice. Just keep muscling through until speaking feels second nature. See you at the next session~

I have found this cronut copycat in Los Angeles. This bakery "Paris Baguette" calls it a "croissant donut", top layer is donut and bottom layer is croissant with lemon creme filling. I don't think this is exactly like the original cronut with donut on the outside and croissant core. If you are not a fan of donuts, they also make a Cruffin!, a croissant muffin hybrid. How do they taste? I think the cronut is the winner here. The Cruffin is more just a muffin shaped croissant without any texture of a muffin. They are honestly both too sweet for my taste. If you have sweet tooth, they maybe right up your alley.

Hi everyone, I have been retired for many years and I started learning English from almost zero. Since I joined Coach Shane’s course, I have made some progress. But my biggest weakness is that I can't catch the conversation — even if I understand what's being said, I still can't respond right away. If you give me time, maybe I can answer, but if I have to respond immediately, I totally struggle. My reaction time is so long — I need time to process the information. To make things worse, I'm short on confidence. I feel shy and nervous when I speak English. So I want to ask: how can I adjust my learning? What’s the best way for me? I really appreciate any tips or advice. Thanks!

SEINFELD time! DDM 1054 Assignment is up! 🗓️ DEADLINE: August 3 (LA time)! ⚠️ COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, and your FILES should be attached BELOW ☺️👇🏻 👉🏻 Coaches @Vinnie Ki & @Clive Burton will stay on the lookout for your LTA recordings. Good luck! ☺️

📖 Book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff … and It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, PhD. Synopsis: Simple ways to keep little things from taking over your life. The book consists of 100 short articles -- we'll go through them week by week. This week’s # 41: Avoid Weatherproofing Here's what you need to do: 1️⃣ Read it yourself, take time to reflect on it and make notes. 2️⃣ Join the live reading on Wednesday. We'll read and listen to the article together, line by line. 3️⃣ Share your thoughts. Keep your answer under 4 minutes. Be clear, and focus on expressing your ideas about the topic to practice real English speaking. No debates, just sharing thoughts. ***** The idea of weatherproofing as it pertains to peaceful living is a metaphor to explain one of our most neurotic, ungrateful tendencies. It comes from a friend of mine, Dr. George Pransky. Just as we can weatherproof a home for the winter by looking for cracks, leaks, and imperfections, we can also weatherproof our relationships, even our lives, by doing the very same thing. Essentially, weatherproofing means that you are on the careful lookout for what needs to be fixed or repaired. It's finding the cracks and flaws of life, and either trying to fix them, or at least point them out to others. Not only does this tendency alienate you from other people, it makes you feel bad, too. It encourages you to think about what's wrong with everything and everyone -- what you don't like. So, rather than appreciating our relationships and our lives, weatherproofing encourages us to end up thinking that life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is. In our relationships, weatherproofing typically plays itself like this. You meet someone and all is well. You are attracted to his or her appearance, personality, intellect, sense of humor, or some combination of these traits. Initially, you not only approve of your differences with this person, you actually appreciate them. You might even be attracted to the person, in part because of how different you are. You have different opinions, preferences, tastes, and priorities.