Week 12: September 28th to October 4th

This exercise is pretty basic. I really was thinking about trying to make a different type of text, but today one teacher told us about poetry that you can't write poetry if you haven't read poetry. Actually, I haven't read anything in English, besides academic texts from the university of short quotes from books. And of course the lyrics of a bunch of songs.

So my challenge for this week is to read something in English and try to imitate it so then I can produce something original. (This could be a really interesting exercise, just to make a challenge every week.)

By now I will tell you about this week. Recently (and parallel to my absence in the blog) I've been living some processes in my life from what I've been learning a lot of things, especially in the social aspect of my life. I had always believed that I had some kind of Asperger because there are some interactions between people that I simply don't understand. Now I know that my parents didn't give me the tools to develop in society, but that's another story. Now I'm learning kind of how to behave in some situations that last year I didn't know how to handle it. Now I know a lot of things that I didn't know then, and I'm very proud of it.  (Notice how many times I'm repeating the word "now", that's the only moment I'm living in.)

So this week I had the obstacle of the flu in my life. At the beginning of the week, I was feeling basically terrible, and a tried to do the things I needed to do, but I didn't do them. On Monday and Tuesday, I didn't have to go to work because of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year celebration, (By the way, Shaná Tova Umetuká for you, we're in 5780 according to this calendar).  So my work week started on Wednesday, with some troubles in the morning with some kids, but nothing out of the normal. This day I was feeling veeeery sick, and I had a lot of things to do because on Thursday we had the Math Contest in the school. That day was really heavy too, and I was also kind of in a bad mood, but I remembered the things I've learned and I made the effort to be well, so then I could go to give a private class and go training roller derby. On Friday I woke up feeling even better, but not so good yet, and I had good classes at my school.

I think this is enough for today (actually I think never it's enough because in my mind there are always things to write).