The beautiful warmer weather shone through today. Today is "Womens Day" and all women teachers at our school were given the afternoon off, so there was time to take the dog for a walk and enjoy the warmth. I also parked myself on the window seat in my bedroom, in the sun and had a coffee and studied Chinese language for an hour or so. This semester has been so busy it's difficult to find time to do anything much. It was refreshing this morning to speak to a couple of Junior 3's (who constantly complain to me how much work they have to do...all students complain about this here) but these two girls greeted me with a warm smile and whilst they said they are very busy, they feel happy and not stressed, even though this semester will decide which senior high school they will go to. Here in China it starts from kindy...If you don't get your child into a good kindy, hard for them to get into a good primary school, then hard for them to get into a good middle school, then senior school, then university....it's a big problem.
Being here in China though the changes are occurring every minute of everyday and changes will already start to take place next semester. The girls today gave me a refreshing answer saying you can't look at the negative and must see the positive, no point in being stressed and unhappy.
The kids here do have to work so hard but constantly complaining can't help them. I too work extremely hard and this semester have 22 classes per week, Monday and Tuesday consuming 14 periods of that week between them, it's exhausting, but Is there any point in complaining, definitely not here...没办法 ! So if you can't change it, why suffer by making yourself unhappy. It's not the thing or the situation that makes you unhappy, it's how you think or view that thing or situation that has the ability to make you feel one way or the other.
Being here in China though the changes are occurring every minute of everyday and changes will already start to take place next semester. The girls today gave me a refreshing answer saying you can't look at the negative and must see the positive, no point in being stressed and unhappy.
The kids here do have to work so hard but constantly complaining can't help them. I too work extremely hard and this semester have 22 classes per week, Monday and Tuesday consuming 14 periods of that week between them, it's exhausting, but Is there any point in complaining, definitely not here...没办法 ! So if you can't change it, why suffer by making yourself unhappy. It's not the thing or the situation that makes you unhappy, it's how you think or view that thing or situation that has the ability to make you feel one way or the other.
