Just another soul

Welcome! I am here once again to do what sadly seems to be the last self-assessment of all of them. It is crazy to think this journey is almost over but that means that the tears, efforts, and pain suffered were worth it. Personally, I really like writing these types of things that involve reflection. They have been very useful as a guidance to state how I have been feeling and how to take the advantages of situations that are not necessarily good. 

At the beginning of the semester I was complaining how bad it was to come back from online classes to this whole new world that was outside our homes. Surely the pandemic is still around but certainly the emotions and feelings that it provoked do not have the same influence on me this time around. Since we came back, I have not felt overwhelmed and I have not had such remarkable anxiety attacks that I used to have when the peak of the pandemic was present. This made me realize that I needed to go out and breathe fresh air to not feel those same four walls anymore. 

Now, in regards to my most recent post about my goals and expectations for English Language 7, it was also centered on the “lack of listening skills” and the “lack of vocabulary”. I would say that my listening skills are better, not much but better. It is only a matter of concentrating on the audio itself instead of being focused on the questions. If you understand the audio, you will get the answers eventually when you see the questions. Plus, vocabulary wise, I still have a lot of learning and studying to do, but trust me when I say to you that if I have a goal, such as these, I will achieve it. 

To finish this reflective facility, I want to take a moment to highlight that this period of time at the university has flourished so many aspects that I did not know about myself, from the fact that I am an overthinker and a perfectionist, to realize that I want to be a good mentor and teacher for my future students, therefore I don’t have to be so hard on myself, that if I have to take some time to do things in order to have inner peace and proper mental health, I will do it.

Thank you for reading and living this experience with me. I hope to see you in another opportunity, in the future. Who knows what it has to offer. 

Hi! Long time no see, huh? Here I am back for another semester, this time for English Language 7, the last English subject of the career and, even though, I am quite happy to finally start my last year of university, it feels bittersweet since we are back in the physical format due to “the one that must not be named” but I knew it was a matter of time and that it had to come sooner or later, right?

Last time I wrote here I complained about many things that I wanted to do right from that moment on, some things that I wanted to improve in, and subjects that I wanted to learn about. Being honest, I think I accomplished some of them, especially improving my speaking skills and handling the pressure that I exposed myself about the practicum and grades leading to some bad days.

Now, I can say that I have kind of the same objectives for this subject as before but also some new ones according to what I want to become and reach (mentally speaking). First, I expect to not be so hard on myself, to take it easy while I’m doing tasks, to not overthink everything I do. Secondly, I definitely want to learn new vocabulary, I hope, as this is the last English Language subject, we get the chance to learn new vocabulary but in an interesting way, not only by reading the words or those kinds of approaches. Ultimately, I still have to polish my listening skills because it is highly important at this point and my handwriting because looking now I wish I could do my writing tests on a computer thus it is so hard to read what I wrote because I can barely understand myself haha, I feel for the teachers.

Anyway, I’m glad to be able to see my friends face to face again and finish this part of our lives together as it was before. And, overall, I really hope that these things I mentioned could be achieved. I know it all depends on me but I still have to try not to be so hard on myself and let things flow. Lately, I’ve been opening my mind for new approaches in many things and I believe that this new mentality of “letting things flow” is going to be in my favor.

I cannot wait to see what this semester has to offer for all of us.