jenpri

 Many people have their own ways of relaxing after a long days of work. So many, that more than a page can be filled up and still remain endless. However, this isn't about different ways of relaxing, this is about what do you do for your self-care and relaxation.  Now is the time to find that one thing (or maybe 2 or 3) that will help you to feel less anxious and just to feel completely stress-free and to be WITH yourself. Yes, this is the MAIN idea. Find something that YOU can make a connection with, that YOU can feel yourself and that YOU can just be YOU.  Relaxing can bring about many things to light, be it a creative mind or ideas may pour into your brains cell. BUT relaxation is a MUST. Without this, you as a human, aren't respecting your body and yourself. You owe this to yourself. Go find that one or maybe two or even three (not more), to help your system to be able to help you, for the next day and the years ahead.

I have no idea what’s going on, where and how did this thing for art started. Just woke up one fine day and there I was looking at some posts from Instagram and youtube and that got me started to try my hands on some art creations.  I can’t even recall my first art work and that’s the best part. When we begin a friendship with anyone, we don’t set it in our minds to say this and say that- friendship just happens. And the same with art, it just happens. Here are some pieces of my initial creations. More to come They are called zentangle. And I just copied or rather followed his instructions from his YouTube video. 

Starting a new academic year is always stressful, to us teachers. But this new academic year would be tooo NEW, this I never expected. I have been a homeroom teacher for more than 6 years, and worked as an assistant for 2.5 years. Last year my new role was to be helping and support students during some specific subjects. I initially found this challenging, as the teenager students wouldn’t really ask for help, nor wanted to be corrected. So after many falls on their faces, they relented and allowed me to help and interact with them.  But after sometime, I found it boring and not challenging enough. Until this year landed on my lap.  This year, I teach students from year 2 up to year 7. Some are high and some low. 

 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...