Were you true to yourself? Did you honour your dreams?
Did the choices you made mean what it means?
Did your daily bread fulfil all your desires?
Do you have time left to enjoy what inspires?
Did you suppress your thoughts to keep the peace?
Are you bitter withholding, without any release?
Is there anyone left now to hold your hand?
Were friendships gone what you had planned?
Now you’ve concluded happiness is a choice
But it’s too late now for your youth to rejoice
Your life had possibility, as good as it gets
Your heart is aching with these dying regrets
Today I’m feeling:
OK on waking but I struggled with exercise this morning. Just not enough energy in my bones!
Lots of students skipped school today and with a holiday tomorrow, I can imagine Friday will be sparse too. And I just found out that next Tuesday is a holiday too! Easy.
Health:
Physical: 7
Mental: 7
Today I’m grateful for:
Kru Tang for fighting with me (see below). We had quite a noisy too and fro in front of some students but at the end of the day, neither of us was upset with each other, just with the situation.
The best thing about today was:
My first class today only had 7 students and 3 of those wanted to go off to do some work to improve their SchoolBright scores.
I let them go off, chatted with the four remaining students and then with Kru David, and our students Dutchie and Boty.
My second class, only about half of them turned up so we just did some vocabulary study and a quiz to fill up the time.
It’s fun to be around the students when it’s relaxed.
What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?
The school deducted 1000 baht from my salary last month because I never sign out after 4.30 pm. I knew this was coming but it was still annoying. Especially as I invest so much of my time and energy in the students.
However, it doesn’t seem that that is what the school really cares about but just that everyone follows the rules.
I argued my point with Kru Tang but there was nothing she could really do.
So I will make some adjustments to my effort and involvement whilst still doing what is required. I’ll try and look at it positively in that it will give me more time to catch up on reading and writing, though it will probably cut down my guitar playing.
Something I learned today?
I used the Brisk Teaching AI to make presentations and quizzes for me and after checking the results, they are really good. I will use it a lot more in future. This is a good practical use for AI.
Review your acts, Good and bad.
I still feel slightly aggrieved about losing 1000 baht today. I guess I’ll have to take a day off sometime so that I can make up for it. I know it shouldn’t bother me that much and it’s just me feeling underappreciated. I know that hard work is its own reward.
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