[Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links which means that I will earn a small commission from your purchases if you use these links, at no cost to you.] We’ve all seen the influencers on social media who seem to always be happy and living the perfect life. Whilst a perfect life is not real, there…
Category: English
Why Teaching English is Hard as a Native Speaker
It is very common for people to think that teaching their native language will be easy. After all, you’ve spoken it all your life and have no problems understanding everything. Surely it can’t be that hard? Let me tell you that yes, it is that hard. So if you’re thinking about becoming an English teacher outside…
How To Stick To Your Habits in 2023
[Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links which means that I will earn a small commission from your purchases if you use these links, at no cost to you.] We’re now two- and a-bit months in to 2023 and what started as a year full of hope and new habits may now be getting old. Habits…
5 Ways to Stay Organised as a Teacher
[Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links which means that I will earn a small commission from your purchases if you use these links, at no cost to you.] I love being organised. There is nothing better than having everything ready in advance. So when I started working as a teacher, I was instantly excited to…
How I’m Learning To Be More Grateful
I’ve always been grateful for everything I have. Or at least I thought I was. It turns out, that I was only really grateful for the things that I had and that I really wanted: a great family life, amazing friends, incredible holidays, trips out, the newest clothes, wonderful books. I’ve also come to realise…
What I Have Learnt So Far as a Teacher
Whoever said that becoming a teacher meant learning new things every single day for the rest of your life was certainly not wrong. Since starting teaching, I have probably learnt more about the profession, about how children learn, and about myself than I have learnt in all of my years of study. Teaching can sometimes…
Teacher Burnout: The Importance of Rest
Being the hardworking, perfectionist student that I am, I have suffered burnout one too many times. It normally hits me the worst at the end of the winter semester, just before Christmas. I think that the combination of end of semester exams, the freezing cold, the rain, the dark mornings and nights, and long days…
My TBR List for 2023
My reading goal for 2022 was to read ten books and I managed to hit this target just two days before the end of the year. Whilst I was very happy to have hit my goal, I would’ve liked to have read more books or at least reached the big ten a bit earlier on…
Do I regret becoming a teacher?
Teaching has always been something that I have enjoyed and been good at ever since I was very young, yet it has never been my ‘dream career’. The truth is that I’ve never really known what I wanted to do with my life as I felt drawn to multiple things at once and couldn’t imagine…
My 2023 Goals
Considering that it’s the New Year, it felt right to dedicate a post to my goals for 2023. I’m a very pro-goal person, I absolutely adore thinking up challenges and things that I want to do differently for the upcoming year that I haven’t yet managed to do. However, I’m equally not very disciplined when…