“There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.”
So I had my first class at 9:30 am this morning, after yet another night of strange, onerous dreams--I trudged to school still enervated after 2 cups of black coffee. Maria Bravo was nowhere to be found, so low and behold--I had an entire classroom of 14 year olds staring at me curiously. Just me..and them.
I decided to work on an activity from one of my other classes from last week, Questions about you, and they were unruly, frustrating, and well...teenagers. Half-way through class I got aggravated--how is it possible to be so disrespectful, when a teacher is speaking--you listen. So I told them so. I told them "I have never seen a class so disrespectful to their peers--when another student is speaking you need to be quiet so I can hear and correct their pronunciation (among the top contenders for difficult words..Possession, Type (which they say TEEP) and Prized (Pree-zid)." Que Fuerte, "Sois unos mal educados"
This class just aggravates me; they are so apathetic and rude. I enjoy majority of my classes but this class is just..argh. Why waste my time? If you don't want to learn english and prefer to walk around saying "Teep" instead of type..that's your choice. I swear, teachers deserve a medal for their patience and ability to teach steadfastly.
So, i'm going to walk home and listen to something happy on my ipod, eat a little bit of food and then go for a run. I have a private tutoring session at 6:30 and several activities to look over. I just want to sleep, i'm so wound up from not sleeping--slightly more irritable, slightly more on edge, slightly more impatient. All are qualities I don't want to have.
Quotes about stress:
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.”--William Faulkner
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