A Frustrating Day

     Hi girls, how are you? How's your week going? Are you anxious for your finishing your career? =)

     Today I want to share with you something that I experienced yesterday.

     On Moday, during our Language Term - Test, I started having a severe sore throat. It was difficult for me to speak but I managed to say some things. After the test, I went back home and I had a private student for an hour. But, the problem was, that I was starting to lose my voice and, the following day, I had to teach a class at school for my Practicum. So, I began becoming really nervous but, specially, really frustrated since I am finishing with my Practicum and the use of my voice is MORE than ESSENTIAL! 

     So I took all the home - made medicine: Lemon juice, honey with oil and lemon juice, some vick vitapirena teas, EVERYTHING!

     The following day (Tuesday) I had to teach. I didn't wake up feeling that well. But I still taught. I had planned a class in which I would show students half an hour of a movie for them to work on it. I had already booked the T.V., the DVD Player, the necessary cables and all. But, something HAD to go wrong with technology!! 

     First of all, I was given the remote control of the DVD Player with NO batteries!! And I didn't have any batteries myself! Then, the cables that connect the T.V. with the DVD Player apparently missed one cable, which was the one used to make the sound be heard. 

     Fortunately, I had brought my laptop to the class and some speakers. I had to have a Plan B. 

     However, I have 40 students in that class and, a laptop, is not enough for such an amount of students. So, not all of them were really capable of watching the movie. And what about my voice? I could almost NOT speak!! I had to ask for Nadya's help many times because my voice didn't want to respond to my commands and it was almost impossible for me to say anything. Fortunately, our students are absolutely great and they really behaved and made a huge effort to understand whatever I said and to be as silent as possible!! (I love those students, they're amazing, really!!)

     After the class finished and when I went back home, (a little bit disappointed, by the way) I had lunch and then I took a nap. When I woke up, guess what happened? I had NO voice. I was really worried because I had to teach again the following day (that is, today) so I got up, and I went to the doctor. I was diagnosed with laryngitis and so I was prescribed to rest for five days. And I actually cried for being in that state, since these are supposed to be my very last lessons and for the last two weeks some negative things have happened (such as technology not wanting to work properly or my voice fading away).

     So, imagine that you would have been in my situation, tell me, wouldn't you have been frustrated? Or annoyed? What would you have done in such a case?

     Have a nice week and weekend!! Thanks for reading all my posts and sharing with me what you have to say in your posts!! You have been really great classmates!!! =)