Hi everyone!!

We are starting a new month today and I wanted to reflect a little bit about these last two months.

I was in a roller coaster these two months.. why?

To begin with, I had to sit for a final exam in july and that was my official ticket to be a teacher of English! I was anxious, nervous, excited, tired, happy.. imagine all those feelings together...hahaha.. my brain was a roller coaster (poor my husband that he had to put out with me)

Fortunately I passed and now I can say that I am a teacher of English!!!

I don't know why but after that I felt strange.. maybe a part of me was shocked because I was actually able to finish (part) of a career that I had started many years ago. And perhaps I couldn't believe it .. don't know. What I do know is that I felt sad and didn't celebrate it or felt happy...but well... this experience made me reflect about many things and I am still thinking about them.

August came and I had to continue studying... at the beginning I felt that I wasn't going to be able to finish all the subjects. But then I thought that I could try to live, work and study little by little (eventhough It's really difficult, I'm doing my best). I'm just going step by step..

So.. I was thinking that I want to share with you..

Does it happen to you that sometimes you just want to give up or stop studying or working in certain places? Sometimes it's frustated when you feel that you are doing everything you can and you have people that tell you that it's not good enough.. or when they don't give you any compliment (specially at school) at all and they just tell you the bad things you are doing. 

So I thought about my students and I didn't want them to feel the same way that I was feeling (frustated and not happy) so I changed my point of view completely and focused ONLY on positive things.. for instance

When I enter a classroom and they are smiling,

When I enter the school and some of them come quickly and hug me,

When they feel sad and after I talked to them, they feel better,

When they enjoy routines and they can't wait to do them all,

When they feel they can do something by themselves and I celebrate it,

and many many more...

Now I have a question for you... How do you cope with negativity or frustrated situations where you work/ study? What is your point of view?