What three words define your life so far and why? Explain each one. Are you content with it or would you make changes?
Hi, guys. Hope you're doing great!
The three words I can use to describe my life at this moment are: Work, learning and living.
Let's talk about each of them:
Why work?
Well, Since I started working last year, I've only been doing that, taking only just brief periods of time to visit my mom and enjoy a little of this life. Education takes a lot of time, dealing with three hundred kids during the week can drain all of your energy. An in addition to the educational part, I have to deal with the emotional and psychological part too. There are a lot of kids in my school that needs a lot of attention and love. So, I think many of them feel comfortable talking with me, because I've heard a lot of good and bad things.
Therefore, when I come home, I just want to lay in bed the rest of the day, but I can't. I have to make money, son in the afternoons, after resting just a little bit, I get out with my aunt to sell cakes, coffee and Quesillos (This is a dessert too). I return home around 7:30pm to make another cake for the next day and to prepare my classes for school.
Why learning?
In this life, We have to be able to adapt, and thus to learn new things. I don't know if it is a casualty, but I have this ability to connect with kids, and I think that's been the reason I get along with them. However, in the pastry world, I'm a merely amateur. I'm learning, thou. I've been watching videos to make my work better. Learning new techniques, and making errors, because without them, I cannot see my improvement. Every day, I think I'm improving and people like my desserts, so I guess I'm doing good.
And finally, living…
Life is about to live, and I have been living so far. Maybe I don't have the time to enjoy good things, but I'm happy. I'm always trying to do my best, to communicate with my mom and dad, with my friends and family. Laughing at my students stories, and giving them some advice when they ask for it. My job as a teacher has been hard, but if one of those three hundred students get something meaningful from me, like my pieces of advice or sermons and do something to change their lives in a good way, I guess it'll be great.
So, these are the three words that define my life so far, and I'm good with them.
Working, learning and living.
Three excellent words that define the path of any human being.
In your case, you work in the only profession that is capable of creating others and is one of the most beautiful and noble there is.
I dedicated 30 years of my life to education and it has been one of the noblest and most beautiful things that has happened to me.
You not only learn by making desserts, you also learn with your children because in that process you learn more than you teach, although you also get better at desserts. By the way, I love quesillo.
And living has different meanings for many and you are happy with what feeds your soul. If that happens to you then you live and are happy.
Thanks for sharing.
Happy Saturday.
Cheers and greetings.
Thank you so much. You are totally right. Every day I learn something new from my students, and I know that even in the busiest day of our day with kids, we have a good day. Being an educator, it's not a for every people. We have to care about our students, because otherwise, what are we really doing?
Thank you so much for reading my words. I really appreciate it.
Thanks.
I’m glad you living your life happily. Hope you get a chance to take a break and rest every now and then.
Thank you. Yes, I'll do it. I want to start reading again. It's been a while since I picked up a book to read.
Teachers have such a hard job, thank you for doing that! The older my kid gets, the more I realize that :-D Good to here that you can still live your life beside the work, in Germany, a lot of teachers drown these days because there's such a lack of them. I hope it stays that way for you!
The lack of teachers here in Venezuela has been increasing incredibly. The salary is too low and the cost of life is so high. We have to do other things to cover up some of the basic services. So far, I've been doing ok. And although it gets hard because teenagers are no the same as we were, I still get them.