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I am still learning

Michael Angelo at the very old age said “ I am still learning “     So do I   It was 31 years ago. For the first time I taught accounting for senior high school student. I was young and unexperienced as teacher at that time. In the class there were  25 students. It was easy because I had confidence that I knew accounting. I taught diligently and clearly at that time. Most of the students got a good grade, but one student kept got 2 out of 10.  I asked him “ Do you understand when I teach you “ He looked at me with a confused face.  He yelled at me “ what “ I was angry then I stared at him “ Why you always get a bad grade ? If you don’t understand you can ask me “  He looked at me, his face showed he was frustrated to deal with me.  I said “ If you never tell me whether you understand or not. I can not help you “  I left him.  I was sad and angry. Basically I don’t care if people hate me, but I hate to be misunderstood.  I shared the problem with other teachers an

Welcome 2020

It has been months that I didn ’ t write for my blogs. One day my friend sent me a message,  “ Lina, when will you write again in your blogs? ” He didn ’ t know that my life has changed a lot. I had many things to do back in 2019.  A trip to Europe for my daughter ’ s graduation, my daughter ’ s wedding preparation and then my mom got liver cancer. It was good thing and bad thing happened in the same time.  I told myself,  “  It is well with my soul  …  I just need to be focus  “ Duke Ellington said,  “  A problem is a chance for you to do your best  “  and I tried to do it. It is not easy at all, but it is true that each problem in life will give us a chance to do our best. We can learn how to handle our emotion better than before. I learn more from life  … Especially I have to take care of my mom, and she was in pain and she didn ’ t want to be served. I learned to serve her better and I learned to understand her emotional to face the cancer. When my mom decided to take pa