Hi everyone,
Please allow me to make my first post a little personal and share with you some reflections about how I felt this first week. When the course was lunched, it seemed to be an overwhelming challenge for me. As mails from Oregon kept coming with many instructions to be followed, I feared the worst. I started to wonder how I was going to cope with all my responsibilities: my job as an Academic Coordinator, my classes at the university every day after work and this new course. To make things worse, I had a test on Oct.4, so I really needed to study hard over last weekend. By the way, I'm studying to become a Public Translator at the State University. It's a four-year career.
However, today, near the end of Week 1, it’s very rewarding for me to see that I could make it. How? I had to resort to several techniques such as acknowledging my feelings in first place, talking my concerns over with colleagues and superiors, prioritizing, breaking objectives into small, step by step achievable goals, doing relaxation exercises in the morning, managing my time even more efficiently, delegating more and asking for help whenever I needed to. In short, I could do it by applying a concept learned in a recent workshop I attended at the Alianza about “Adapting to Change”: the problem for us, human beings, is not the change itself, but the transition stage and the internal resources we need to develop to deal with the new situation.
Now I have a feeling of achievement. The initial despair and distress gave way to self-control and fulfillment. I’m happy to have created my first blog, which was much easier than expected and to have posted on Nicenet, which gave me the chance to meet you guys. I'm impressed by your backgrounds and comments. It's going to be very enriching to discuss academic issues with such committed professionals from so many different parts of the world.
Margarita
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