Be patient!!

I think patience is one of the most difficult virtues to cultivate.
I remember myself waiting in many different situations and feeling so anxious and nervous because the absence of patience in my personality.
There are many examples like when you go to the doctor's and your appointment is at 6 o`clock but for some reason you enter his door at 8.30. What do you do meanwhile?You start reading magazines(if there are) and then speak with other patients about nonsenses like the weather, or a TV show and after that you are so disturbed that you feel like killing the secretary or anybody who is near you.
Another annoying example of not being patient is when you are waiting for a phone call and the telephone does not ring. You stick to the phone thinking that only because you are near it, like a miracle it will ring.After one, two or more hours you get so furious and frustrated that you want to throw the telephone through the window as an Almodovar´s movie.
Patience is a virtue I admire a lot from other countries like Japan.I think meditation is a good practise to acquire it

Buy buy buy!

It seems that nowadays buying is essential in modern life.
From the very moment we start watching TV, and that is very early, we are exposed to thousands of ads that show products as indispensable for us to have a beautiful and happy life.
The ads show gorgeous people smoking or drinking a certain brand and someway that seems to act in our brain to impel us consuming as if we buy such or such brand of drink, cigarette or whatever,we will become all of the sudden in beautiful and successful creatures.
Television influenced so much in the our choices even to buy simple things like rice or noodle we rely on TV.I think this influence is harmful especially for children who more than ever think that possessing is a synonym of happiness. They feel very frustrated when parents can not afford what that "NEED" because everything seems to be necessary for them, from a PlayStation to a cell phone.
Not only children but also adults, especially women, have the impulse to buy things that they do not need but just want.
Technology has also increased the spirit of consuming because there are so many gadgets to buy and most of the people desires the last cell phone as to show status to give one example of the thousands there are.
In what respects to me I can say I am a consumer; I do not know how to save . I am always tempted to buy everything especially when I am depress I can buy useless things that I regret having bought them after I feel better. I think that is a compulsive behaviour that shows how empty I feel sometimes and trying to fill that emptiness by buying is not a solution at all.

Portfolios

I have attended to a teacher training seminar about "portfolios as a whole picture of self".The training took place at Carlos V Hotel, the talk was held by Lucrecia Prat Gay.
I found the seminar very interesting as I learnt the importance of portfolios to see the progress the students do.
Mrs. Prat Gay said" portfolios are pictures of product and progress, they include a carefully selected collection of student´s work that provides clear evidence of his/ her knowledge,skills and grasp of concepts in areas over a specific time".
She insisted on encouraging students to feel comfortable and to help them build a self- esteem because as teacher we should not forget that we are dealing with people.
One of the advantages of the students selecting items for their portfolios is that they develop a sense of what constitutes quality.
Another advantage of portfolios is that help students to take responsibility for their own learning by evaluating and reflecting on their work.
From my point of view portfolio are something that I would like to apply with my students but I do not know how yet.
All in all, I am open to all the new methodologies and strategies that may come and if somebody can help me with this issue , I would really appreciate it.

Being in love

Being in love is the best feeling one can have.
When you are in love you feel an adrenalin that let you do the craziest things you have never imagined to do.
When you are in love you experience great joy, everything is fine and all the problems diminish because you see them through the eyes of love.
When you are in love all your senses are more awaken than ever: when you close your eyes the first image you see is your lovers, the best perfume is the smell of his skin, the sweetest sound you hear is his voice, the most delicious taste is his kiss and when he touches you is like reaching heaven.
When you are in love you are not alone anymore even if the love is not corresponded you have somebody to think in.
When you are in love everything seems possible because your attitude towards life changes, you feel confident and positive in every way.
For all I have already mentioned above I must say that being in love is the best state and we all must experiment, at least once .

A love story

This is the story of a man and a woman who were looking for each other for a long time but they did not know they were meant for each other.
Irina was nice , not beautiful but attractive, very sensitive and with a noble heart. She had her heart broken for an insensitive ex boyfriend who was jealous and possessive. He wanted to control her, she could not give a step without his consent.After three years of unhappiness she decided to put an end to this sick relationship, it was not an easy decision , on the contrary she was afraid of his reaction, in fact he started to threaten her. Although she was very scared she did not surrender to the fear and she stock to her original decision.She pried and pried for him to let her go and suddenly the miracle happened: he stopped bothering her.
After six months of being shut away , Irina decided to live again, after all she was still young and she deserved a second chance, so she went with a friend to a pub.When she was sitting in the bar with Elen, her good friend, she saw Joe a very handsome man who she knew but never talked to him before. He went to the table where she was sitting and told her if he could sit there with them, Irina accepted and they started talking as if they knew for another life. They laughed and talked and talked, they where enjoying each other. They discovered they had many thing in common and since then they are happy together. They are in love but their love gives them oxygen to breath. It is a beautiful, quiet and huge LOVE.

To be or not to be, that is the question!

The reading of the book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has led me to many reflections on humans' nature, feelings and behaviours.
To start with, are we born good or bad? If we consider religion ( Catholicism) we are born with the original sin, that is to say we are not born good at all until we are baptized so according to this precept we are not good from the very moment we open our eyes to life.
As we grow up we learn many things in our family, we make the first steps to what is right and wrong and our parents have the moral obligation of showing us what is good and what is not so we modify our behaviour.But what happens with those children who haven`t got parents? Does it mean they are going to be a menace to society?Because if nobody shows them the limits between good and evil ,then how are they suppose to know them?
The discussion about this issue is endless and there are many points of views but in my personal opinion we are born good or bad of course that the environment influences on us but does not determine us. For instance, not all the brothers or sisters who are suppose to share the same education and values are the same.Within the same family one brother is very nice and kind while the other is the other way round. I think we know what is right and wrong , good and evil and we have the choice and the freedom to whatever we want to do. So the question is to be or not to be evil, and is our choice.

Against all odds

Stephen Hawking is a 65 year old scientist who has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. He showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes.
At the age of 21 he was diagnosed a terrible disease called ALS( Amyotrophical Lateral Sclerosis)characterised by progressive degeneration of the motor cells in the brain and spinal cord. Doctors told him he would live a year or maybe less. He didn't give up and he thought his body may not work at all but his mind could do it and he was determined to do whatever he could do. Now he is 65 he is living 44 years more than he was expected, he has a beautiful family( a wife, three children and one grandchild) and he is very successful in his profession.
Amazing.Isn't it? For me he is an example of strength, determination and love for life.
He is an example for me when I complain for many silly things. I think most of us do not really appreciate good health we live like if we were timeless. We don`t see the beauty of the simple things because we are always expecting our lives to improve. The problem is we dont know in which way we want our lives to improve and in that way we go for life complaining all the time because we dont have this or that and we forget about what really matters.
And what matters? depends on each person, for some people family and friends are more important, for others job and career and for others money, unfortunately those who care only about money are more exposed to lose their way.
I think it is useless to complain about what we cannot change instead we can try doing what we know we can do well, Stephen knew he couldnt move his body but he used what he knew was working: his brain.
This man has showed me that when you are determine to do something nothing can`t stop you. Against all odds he is giving the best of him. Bravo for his great courage!!