jenpri

 I never thought I would get a or many tattoos done on myself. I have always admired those who have them and also wondered if they were painful or people just do this to prove something to the society. Like calling themselves DIFFERENT. But they aren't. They are the same as US NORMAL people. They MAY think that they ARE different and if anyone who reads this post may even say that I am crazy to even say that tattoo people are SAME. But they are.  Anyways, I am diverting from the main gist here. I am going to show you that I am the SAME as NORMAL people and not DIFFERENT. But I still have tattoos on myself and I feel fine, great and yes, have over-come that fear of NEEDLES-- or almost.  This is my first tattoo. Most memorable.    Most painful.  Different.  People with tattoos, you are still the same from inside, same flesh and blood. We are all the same-HUMANS but just with different personalities and that makes us different, everyone has their own ways...

So I am teaching during this summer at a friend's summer school. Its a 3 weeks program. I got tired at the end of first week and just wanted to quit and enjoy my break. But I still persisted and am glad I did so. During one of the lessons, we started discussing about money. This topic was to get over within 2 days, but it seemed unlikely with the kids. They enjoyed it so much, that every morning we had to talk and share currencies from different countries - both paper bills notes and coins.  Hence, one of my student decided to bring in his special ring made from 1 dollar bill. When he told us about it, I never created nor imagined what he had in reality, until I saw it today. It completely zapped me.    It's a ring made from a real one dollar bill.  Then he took me back into the past by showing me currencies from Egypt. I just went into the past. I had visited Egypt with my dad, mom and sister, and I was the only one who climbed inside the pyramids at almost 90 degre...

Now I always knew that our smart phone wasn't just made like that, it had a purpose. We can use it to click pictures and short videos, but putting them together to TELL a story, is another way of thinking. My friend here in my city, just casually mentioned that this course was coming and if i interested. of coz i was, since i love photography and always wanted to be as good as my favorite uncle. Even my sister is fab in this field but it isn't something we took on as a career. My best friend S, loves photography and would send me pictures and video shots of other photographers and that got me intrigued as to how, what app and when will I also achieve this.  I am not completely there, YET. And not even half way there yet. But at least i have started somewhere and onto something.  I learnt how to maneuver iMovies by myself, a long time ago. But kind of lost interest in the middle. With each update a new feature was introduced into the app. Not hard to understand and follow, just...

I had started this Tesol course during the lock down and had about 3 months to complete it. Of coz, silly me, thought I would complete it before I returned back to school. But I got lazy and dragged my feet. However, I did manage to complete over half of it before I resumed work. Once I went back to school, I would still read through the modules and answer the multiple choice questions and also finish up the 100 words write up. I finally achieved this. Below is my certificate in TESOL.  This is my third certification in this course.  Why did I do this?  Well, its good to keep upgrading yourself, your CV and every TESOL course I have accomplished, is a little different from another. Each of them imbides different methodologies of teaching, which is necessary for every teacher to adopt and use in their teaching practices.  Below is another course I completed in essential oils. You may ask what is "Essential Oils". These are specific oils we get directly from plants wit...

Human minds are so funny. When we were on our regular flow of daily routine, we were so involved in work and daily routines at home. We always desired to have the time to do something different, something extra for ourselves, BUT never had the time. After CoVid set-in, we had time and became totally lost how to handle and make use of this precious time. We became so confused that it took us some couple of weeks to set in a new daily routine. This was so, coz rules of where we resided, kept changing and we had to adapt to these new set of rules. Hence, the delay in getting ourselves fixed or create a new routine. But finally, we did it. We set for ourselves a new schedule, a new daily routine, and a new set of rules to live by. We have finally made our desired precious time to come to us. Now what do we do with this TIME? Routine has been fixed. Schedule has been set-in. NOW it's the time to give to YOURSELF. Now is Now is the time to build on that hobby. Now is the time to create a...

This is a special time for everyone. This is the time for all teenagers to finally get their freedom. This is the time for the teenagers to finally move out. And this is the time, for the teenagers to finally say, we are entering into adulthood. But are they really ready for adulthood? Are we as parents ready for this change to happen? Are we as parents ready to let go? Many might say, yes, and some may even say, we are relieved, and some may even say, no. Every parent is different, just as every child is different. But this isn't about them. It's about, where, and when and how did time fly by soooooo quickly. It's amazing, when we usually say, one-day you will be in a university. Well, that time has FINALLY ARRIVED. Did we have to say this, over and over again. It sometimes feels that, time was listening to you and has finally fulfilled your request by arriving. And now you have no choice but to send your child or children off to their own ways of life. For some, this may ...

Its been 2 (this is 3rd) weeks now that we are back to school. Feels good but just very different. At school, we all teachers AND students have to wear MASKS. Wear them while walking down the corridors, while going from one building to another and sometimes inside the classrooms. For now, its still alright, since the weather is cool and pleasant. But it will be horrible once the heat begins. Some heaty days showed up and we all were quite desperate to just discard our masks. Then comes in the windy and cool days, and our masks become our saviors. Wearing these masks have indeed become mandatory but not necessarily part of our lives. In our minds, we really WANT to get rid of them ASAP, but its equally necessary to wear them, just to be on the safe end. It won't help to protect you from the Covid, but it will surely act as a barrier in some small way. Along with this addition of maskful days, there are also some additions of some other routines which are interesting and "...