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You know those moments where you’ve no idea of why you’re here and what there is to live for?
(Source: janeyoucrazy, via fuckyeahcommunity)
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It was scary to be too unencumbered, she thought later. The whole unencumbered thing could go too far. Cat saw that now. You had to get the balance right. A person needed to be unencumbered but not cast adrift, free but not lost, and loved but not smothered. But how do you manage all that?
— The Family Way
It’s far from a few clothes and it’s more duffel bag than suitcase, but it’s still getting away. Am afraid I might be more in love with the idea than the practice itself.
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Hot Air Balloon from Telling Tales by xueyi
Any time you’re in a fight with somebody you know well, you have the option to go nuclear. If you know them well enough, there’s probably something you can pull out that will utterly destroy everything—including your relationship, most likely—and cause the chaos to rain down on everyone around you.
— Todd VanDerWerff for AV Club’s review of Community’s S3E14 “Pillows and Blankets”
Community just gets better and better <3
Annie did pretty good in a pinch.
The episode that gifs itself. I told you guys.
My best teachers, the ones I still think about today, exposed me to new and exciting ideas. They created classroom environments that welcomed discussion and intellectual risk-taking. Sometimes, these teachers’ lessons didn’t sink in until years after I’d left their classrooms.
While I was in Hong Kong 4 weeks ago, towards the end of my very enjoyable time there, I started to worry about my CELTA results, because that was when the results were expected to be released. One of my CELTA colleagues even dropped me a message (not knowing that I was in HK), asking whether I had received my results yet - he was worrying about it too.
As it turns out, I managed a Pass B, and there havent’ been many things in my life that I’ve been more proud of. Even though I met up with my CELTA colleagues tonight and the subject of results never came up, I’m awfully proud of my Pass B grade (statistically in the top 25% of all CELTA graduates), because I know I deserve it.
All my life, I’ve been raised to know that if you don’t have the talent, then you’ve simply got to work harder. Hard work alone will never get you to the top (because one needs some ounce of talent to mix), but it will never fail you. Every achievement I’ve managed in my life - academic or CCA or otherwise - has been achieved by putting in the hours, putting in the effort. And that feeling of being successful due to hard work is just so gratifying.
But I had never been talented at anything examinable, or at least, anything that our materialistic society deems to be of worth/value.
Completing the CELTA course has been a major life event, even though some may just shrug it off as a 10-week course that simply qualifies one for certain jobs, because I finally feel like I’m worth something. And also because I finally found something which I’m damn good at, and also something which I enjoy doing, no matter whether I actually use my CELTA qualification in the future.
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Of course I wouldn’t have achieved a Pass B grade if not for my truly amazing CELTA tutors. I’ve already dropped both of them a personal email expressing my gratitude, so I’m not going to go into a long elaboration of how fantastic they are.
What I do want to mention however, is that my truly outstanding teachers have never failed to leave a mark on me - an impact that will frankly probably last a lifetime.
My lovely primary school teacher always drilled the grammar rule of “‘to’ followed by root word” - which I now know as the to-infinitive rule (and which actually isn’t always applicable). My secondary school math teacher’s impact on me, despite being an excellent math teacher who was incredibly patient with me, wasn’t academic in nature but a soft piece of personal relationship advice which will stay with me forever.
In junior college, I was fortunate enough to be taught by first-class teachers, one who consistently (and correctly) insisted on the value of ‘precision’, and another two whom I know will always have time for me in terms of advice and guidance.
During the CELTA course, my two teachers were no different in leaving their own mark on me: one emphasised strongly on the idea of ‘scaffolding’, while the other taught me the powerfully crucial concept of ‘purpose’.
I wouldn’t be who I am today without my teachers, and I guess it’s that kind of opportunity, the chance to play a significant part in changing/moulding/educating people for the better, that draws me to consider doing the same.
