Unbalance in life.

Terry Pratchett was absolutely right when he stated that unfortunate events are a bunch of cowards who never face you individually, but jump on you as a pack.

Car breaks dowm, mom breaks down, work situation goes off balance... Every negative thing that can bump on me has done it, and I am barely keeping migrane at bay with 2 aspirins for breakfast every morning.

It is in situations like this when my true character is put to the test, and I become reassured I'm pathologically optimistic: yeah, I was about to ruin my car's engine, but the failure was discovered just in time to prevent that. Sure, my mom broke her ankle in 3 pieces, but at least it wasn't her hip or her skull, and of course my boss and supervisors are giving me a hard time, but I do have enough evidence I've been doing my job properly, so what the hell? Life goes on, doesn't it?

Being thrown off balance by life is not exactly my cup of tea, but I'm sure I will survive.

De Vuelta y Por Qué

Decidí volver a escribir tras la frustración de lidiar con Facebook, que requiere picar un montón de botoncitos y rascarle al cuadrito de la laptop para expresar ideas grandes, como éstas. Soy floja por naturaleza, y me da menos pereza mecanografiar, porque mantengo las muñecas sobre el borde y solo muevo mis lindos deditos.

Hace mucho que no se me antojaba escribir, o no tenía tiempo. Aunque sigo sin tiempo, hoy la compulsión fue más fuerte, al ver las listas de los 20 libros más influyentes en las vidas de mis amigos. Ellos mencionaron varios de mis favoritos que a mí se me pasaron, lo cual me avergüenza mucho, aunque el chiste era recordarlos en menos de 15 minutos, lo cual me lleva a desplegar una enorme sonrisa al recordar por qué son mis amigos: por nuestras similitudes y nuestras diferencias.

Vaya este nuevo post como un saludo a todos ellos que lo inspiraron.

Teen Teaching

How on Earth am I suppossed to teach any Language and Literature topic to 75 teenagers on a Friday just after a two day break?

Any ideas?

Anyone...?

GAAAAH!!

Grades

My first bimester is over, and I'm facing a very long night ahead of me, since I miscalculated the amount of time required to average 75 teenagers.

On the other hand, I have finally been able to drive my car to my work place, after three months of Saturday driving lessons; but taking into the account the current situation, I think I'll have to take the school bus one last time tomorrow, to be able to take a nap on the way. jaja.

OMG!!

OH, MY GOD!! It's been more than a month, and I've found myself lacking the ability to find spare time to devote to my poor little blog. Therefore, I won't bore you to death with anything trivial, except for this pictures I was able to take for the first time with my digital camera during the Mexican Independence Celebrations, which just took place last September 15th and 16th. As you will be able to detect, I took my time to find the purpose of the "landscape" function.

The end of the rainbow.

I guess this is my best picture EVER. It started raining really hard to the east around 7 p.m., while the sun was going down. I knew there was going to be a rainbow, so both my camera and I got soaked to get this picture.

Now I know where to look for my gold pot.

It's back to school tomorrow.

I don't really know how other teachers may be feeling about this, but I'm all shaky and nervous with the fact that I will be in front of 4 more groups starting monday. It's one of those moments when you question yourself about how you can become a better teacher compared to all your previous experience. I just hope I can do much better than last year.

This is one sight from the Middle School's Principal Office, and I love it. Resolution is not that good 'cause I took it with my cellphone.

I also wish to develop a sense of beauty appreciation in my students. Tips, anyone?

Enjoy!