Working with Challenging People!

I attended a professional development seminar last week, entitled “Working with Challenging People”.
I always have high expectations of these things, so I am easily disappointed….
While it wasn’t what I expected, and it didn’t give me any neatly packaged solutions, it did give me a sort of generic principle, to apply with people or situations [...]

This blog helps!

This opportunity to articulate my feelings really helps me to discharge the tension associated with my job stress.
This morning I went out for breakfast, with a friend who used to rent a room from me. She talked about her (relatively new) job, to which she has lured a colleague from her/their previous workplace. She describes [...]

Finally back…

Hi. 
I am finally back. It seems like about a week since I last posted, here. Work has been stressing me out. At the end of the last week (my last post here, below), I fainted twice, almost fainted the third day. Then discovered I have developed high blood pressure (odd, given that fainting is usually caused [...]

Why is my job stressing me…?

…at the moment, even though I like it…
Hmm: possibly because I started the year with a new curriculum and only a few students, so I have been trying hard to do it all perfectly.
Also because I have one learner who really doesn’t belong in my classroom, because it is an adult learning environment, and this [...]

Where have I been?!?

Heavens! It’s been ages! And I’ve been missing you.
Meanwhile, almost 300 people have visited here. Or rather, there have been almost 300 discreet visits to this site, which makes me happy.
My home computer has been out of action for this past two weeks – and to cap THAT off, my work computer went down for [...]