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…
Category: Teaching
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…
Prof d’anglais : le premier jour
Parlons-nous du premier jour de la rentrée scolaire, de la première heure même, face à sa première classe d’élèves, ce qui était pour moi, au collège. Comme toute chose que l’on fait pour la première fois, on ressent une vague d’émotions différentes : la peur, la joie, l’angoisse, la curiosité, le bonheur, le soulagement d’y être…