Remote Learning -my experience (Part 1)

Since the COVID pandemic set in, life as we know has changed. COVID-19 has become the new normal.  However cliched it may sound, it is a truth that cannot be pushed aside. 

As an international school, we have always erred on the side of caution. The school had been on alert since mid Jan, 2020. Thank God is all I have to say! Being a primary teacher, we had to close up our school (Feb 13) & instantly set up ‘online learning’. What the what! Thankfully, a barely 1 hr MS Teams training session had been given to us right before school closure thus we weren’t caught in the blind/unawares. The past 3 and half months have been a mixture of nerves, thankfulness, dread, excitement & contentment.

 

I have a class of 23 students among whom I have EAL & SEN learners too.

true that!

 

“I tried to live as though I didn’t need anyone, but I keep wanting to hold on to everyone.”

And I reach the 34th…

And 34th milestone covered!

Yet another year, yet More older, not wiser, more jaded yet not given up.

Annular Solar Eclipse- June 2020

All I asked the Lord today…was to see this!

Sounds absolutely dumb, I know… & agree too! (Will update this post later on with my thoughts n experience)

I didnt see the RING of FIRE, but yea just missed it by a few degrees I would say..ex-sp with the dark clouds////ughh….That was another annoyance.

Void-ITY

Reality doesn’t exist for me
In a limbo I somewhere am
Floating around

Nothing to reach out for
Nothing to sink in
I am where I am
Because
Of who I am

I wish I could fall and drown
I wish I could soar and fly
I wish I had the wings or maybe even an anchor
To fall back on, recline and rely.

My God! My Lord!
Lama sabachthani
You seem, somehow
To have left me alone

To live, to learn
A lesson or two
And like the prodigal son
Come back to YOU.

6 November 2018

©Sherin2018

 

Time to RECONNECT

Just the other day, I got an invite from a close friend, to read her new blog. “That’s so cool!” was my thought and immediately went on my ‘thought train’ (or “tho-rain” as I would like to call it). Even I had a blog. I too could sent out an invite to her… But seriously, when was the last time I wrote? when was the last time I typed out my (real) thoughts? Could I share it with others? Do I want to write for others? Or is it , as I used to think just a personal venting tool?

As a result….. I am here. one post a fortnight. Minimum.

Need to reconnect with people, with my thoughts, with REALITY.

 

The Candle

I am the flicker
 I am the flame
I am the dormant spirit
I am the wick
I am the douse
I am the dormant spirit 

I am
The candle unknown

©Sherin 2014

 

Void-ITY

Reality doesn’t exist for me
In a limbo I somewhere am
Floating around

Nothing to reach out for
Nothing to sink in
I am where I am
Because
Of who I am

I wish I could fall and drown
I wish I could soar and fly
I wish I had the wings or maybe even an anchor
To fall back on, recline and rely.

My God! My Lord!
Lama sabachthani
You seem, somehow
To have left me alone

To live, to learn
A lesson or two
And like the prodigal son
Come back to YOU.

6 November 2018

©Sherin2018

 

BLOGGING

blogging. To vent. To sigh. To share.

People typically blog to share. To inform, celebrate and announce to others about their experience, their thoughts and the other things they have-to give.

Me? I blog to vent. I blog to let out. I don’t care if nobody reads this but the very act of writing it out, the act of putting it out- out in the open, unknown world. Knowing that this act is my part of “sharing”. That I too “share”; can share.

This feeling is fine, enough for now. The knowing that I’m venting out my frustrations, my ranting to a Mr Nobody- that is enough. Honestly.

Although, I have to admit, when I share my poems, its different. That aspect is my secret hope-of being appreciated, being admired, having something of substance, and again, venting.

March 31 2019

©Sherin2019

don’t

Just don’t.
Don’t 

Have A soul 
With a voice
So loud
A conscience
as chatty
Principles
as stringent

As mine

Don’t know
Don’t feel
Don’t say
Anything deep
Or real.

And you will be fine
You will be blessed
To know and feel
What the blessed do feel.

3/9/17

©Sherin2017