Author: Karla Franco (Page 6 of 6)

Ever-changing Life

Here we are, experiencing English classes virtually, meeting by screaming via webcams. Might have we guessed this may happen? That we may experience a widespread pandemic, quarantining with family eschewing germs and humans in general. Thinking back, March 13th when everything became surreal, I realized everything was changing. My classes were emptier than usual, classmates intrigued, asking what will happen next?

Then came my daily after-class teaching duty, which was peaceful at this time, we had just passed the quarterly assessments. We had spent three weeks preparing, earning the students, and teachers a well-deserved break. Yet this day like the few earlier, lacked students. Typically we had three-hundred students a day but this day we were left with less than 40% in attendance. The number decreasing as kids were picked up by their parents, panicked by the new virus. With fifty students left, I just basked in the silence seeming as if it was never this empty and peaceful. Appreciating what I was certain might be the last regular day I’d have in a while.

Thinking back this day excites me, what will happen in the next few weeks? Despite the few challenges I have faced, I deal with it and accept it. With the small issues came bigger things, that in the past year I have dealt with, but in the end, they have helped me learn, value life and its changes. With the multiple life challenges we face we will beat them, then deal with new challenges. Because that is life, always changing, it’s inevitable, embrace it.