"blah"
It has been a long time since I wrote anything here. I feel like I have nothing to say. I am tired of talking about how I miss my family. Work is ok.. but not spectacular. My students are lazy and careless and it drives me crazy. I feel like it is all pointless because I can't teach them when they couldn't care less. I taught a few of them. I guess I taught all of them something, but I feel like I did not teach them enough. I feel like I was not able to teach them to take pride in their work. I feel like I could not teach them to not fight each other...
Speaking of fighting...
I was telling a kid that he can't hit people to solve his problems. I was giving him the whole lecture about fighting being wrong and him having to find other ways to solve his problems... He asked me when it is ok to start fighting. I asked him what he meant... he said "I know fighting is wrong in year 1 and year 2, but when it is ok to start fighting again?" I told him that it is never ok to fight. He told me I am wrong because he saw men fighting with guns on the news and that it was ok. I told him they were soldiers and they were not fighting and .. and then I was lost for words. I told him that those were countries fighting and he is not a country and therefore he cannot fight. When he becomes a country he can fight.
It was wrong of me to do that... but what was I supposed to tell him?
Anyway, back to my "blah" feeling.. I am just not interested in anything now.
I am enjoying time alone more. I am starting to get worried because I am starting to prefer being alone as opposed to being with people.
I miss my niece and nephew and am starting to count down the days until I am back there with them....
and I am hoping this "blah" feeling goes away because I am bored of it!
2 Comments:
wow. powerful. maybe it's not okay for countries to fight. just because big people do something doesn't mean it's right.
sometimes little people are smarter than big people.
funny how little people make big people grow up sometimes, too, huh?
I know smoking is wrong and it is gonna kill me one day, but I have never even tried quitting it. When I was a kid, I didn't believe smoking was okay only 'cause my dad happened to light a cigarette. It was wrong back then and it still is.
The thing is I could not find something to substitute for smoking.
This world needs to stop telling me about the consequences of smoking, 'cause this is exactly the last thing I care about. If someone invents something that can take the place of smoking, smoking won't hit anyone's mind.
Be practical, my friend. Don't tell your students something they already know. While you are trying to take fighting out of their lives, keep your head busy with something else to fill the gap that fighting left behind.
We are all doing our best trying to fill as many gaps in our lives as possible, we certainly can't blame our kids for doing the same thing.
Teaching someone who already cares makes you a happy teacher, but teaching someone who does not care makes you a great one.
N
Post a Comment
<< Home