fan of the 10s

Just in case you don't know me, I have to mention I've been teaching English in a primary school for a year and a half. Most of the experiences I have had till now were really gratifying. However, this week, I had to experience something that made me feel speechless (as hard as it may sound).

I was giving back some test my 3rd grade students had taken a week before while I was walking around the classroom. When I finished handing them out, I stood at the front of the classroom again when I saw Pilar (a brilliant,respectful, and lovely student) crying desperately. When I asked her what had happened she told me her mom would be really mad at her 8.50 

Imagine my face... I didn't know how to console that poor little thing and, at the same time, I didn't know how to explain her that her mom was an absolutely ....................... woman (fill in the blank with the word that you think suits this woman better).    

I felt bad, sad, speechless. I could see my student's worry and she really looked pale. 

I got so angry I wrote a note to her mom telling her to come and talk to me -that talk will be next week-. So I've been thinking of all the things I want to tell her and to EXPLAIN her very respectfully :) 

If you want to know what I told her... you will have to read my next week's post. 

:P see u

Just do it.

“Steve Jobs never graduated from college”. Wow! That’s surprising, isn’t it? But who said only those who graduate are the ones who have all the knowledge? Is it that only a degree can prove and reflect your proficiency and your competence? Well, not really. Without getting a degree Steve Jobs could still amaze us all by changing significantly and amazingly our technological lives. Anyway, that is not what called my attention the most about his talk. What truly made an impression on me was the idea that many times we experience different situations in life and we are not truly aware of what the significance of those experiences is. How many times have we found ourselves doing things and not knowing the ‘what for?’ I think that we, human beings, are always looking for a reason. It seems we don’t do anything if we don’t get a reward (and it necessarily needs to be within a short term). We always need an explanation. We always need to connect the present to the future, and I think it is there where we fail since we won’t always find the connection. There is not always a ‘because’. Think of this for just a moment: we can perfectly do things without having the need to see their point , we can just act. What's the problem with it? I think there is nothing wrong because, as Steve Jobs says, we will find the connection, we will eventually find the answer to the ‘what for’ but, when we do, we’ll find it looking backwards, not forwards. That is why I fully agree with him on his idea of following our heart and doing what we think is good. There will come a day in which we’ll realize that everything we did, was worth doing.

Based on Steve Job’s talk: How to live before you Die. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

:)