Getting Things Done: A Saga of Incomplete Work
Let’s take a “break” shall we. I clean my table, clear up the clutter, set everything in place and once done, promptly take a break. There is no reason for me to do so, I am not tired, nor have I actually accomplished anything, it’s just the thought of actually doing something gets me exhausted. […]
Hazards of Saying Yes
This doesn’t end well. Yes. Such an uncomplicated word, yet I can trace nearly all my problems back to it. It isn’t that I dislike hearing it, on the contrary, I love to hear it; “Why, yes you may have the day off!”, “Yes, you have won at life!”. The problem arises when I end […]
Anchored
We met on a sunny afternoon When the leaves turned yellow. The sun shone through you, A pretty halo. I blinked, stuttered. At a loss for words. It was a moment, Perhaps seconds. But my mind ran through years. Every sentence. Each word. That I had to hear. It wasn’t easy, Growing up. […]
MONSTERS
All alone, The disquiet. We think we are safe at night, In the silence. Do we always forget? We are never alone, at rest. Our fears, nightmares, all that we hide, In a pretty little box kept bedside. It’s not the monsters under our beds, That we must fear. It’s the monsters in our heads, […]
Teacher’s Drama: A Teacher Doesn’t Just Teach
“Teaching? Ah it is not so complicated!”, I thought naïvely. When I became a teacher, I had expected it to be pretty much straightforward. Teach, correct the books, and come back home. This is where I made my first mistake, the sheer amount of multi-tasking that went into it boggled me. At anytime I was […]
The Parent – Teacher Relationship
It is 6pm, I sat down to go through my lesson plans and activity items checklist for the next day. My phone buzzed atop my desk indicating the arrival of a text message. Teacher could you make sure Anna sits in the front? She is distracted at the back. Thank you! Sighing I mentally run […]
Offline to Online: Teaching During the Pandemic
Teaching is a task on its own but teaching during a pandemic is a whole other thing. Let me tell you my experience. I remember the date clearly 8th March 2020, I was hurriedly putting away the students’ notebooks inside the lockers for the day, I had to send them by the weekend. My coordinator […]
Living Through A Pandemic
No one is truly prepared for a pandemic. Humanity has advanced so much that at this point we expect to conquer all, and eventually we will. But nature is such that, we cannot plan for all outcomes. Covid19 is the greatest example of that. There is no set cycle for an occurrence of a pandemic. […]
Types Of Students In A Classroom
Entering a classroom is no less than putting your hand in a box of colored marbles. You never know what color you will get. Students come in all the colors of a rainbow; this is what makes teaching exciting. Would it not be boring if we taught the same sort of student repeatedly? Part of […]
5 Reasons You Should Start Writing
One of the reasons I started this blog was because I wanted to make writing a habit. It is easy to think of ourselves as a passionate writer but when it comes to making it into a practice we tend to fall behind. For me, the main reason I hesitate is because I don’t think […]
