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This application business is really getting to me now! I really have to decide where I want to do my teacher training, but I can't seem to decide between Scotland and England, and it's driving me absolutely nuts! I couldn't sleep last night and the more I couldn't sleep, the more I though about the decision I had to make, so the less I could sleep, the more I thought, so on so forth unitl 4 in the morning. This is not a fun position to be in when you wake up every day at 6 in the morning.
The other less-than-great thing is that when stress levels reach a certain point, my body reacts. Or rather, my skin reacts. This can be anything from a teeny tiny only-I-can-really-see-it pimple (when, say, I have a particularly hard translation to do) to full on end-up-in-hospital-rashes (which has thankfully only happened once, which was when I left England 5 years ago, clearly not very happy). Sooooo, now that I'm currently smack in the middle of a tough decision time, I think my body may somehow be under the impression that I haven't actually realised I'm in the middle of a life-changing, stressful process and has kindly decided to remind me of this through the medium of eczema. Great. For those of you who don't know, eczema is is a form of dermatitis, or inflammation of the upper layers of the skin. So basically my skin (usually my forehead) becomes reddish, itchy and dry. all in all it's very unpleasant. \
I've called one of my teachers from high-school (waaaay back when) and he said he would help me through all this dilemma, so I'm going to meet him tomorrow. Hopefully, he'll help me find a way through this maze of options!!! [Fingers crossed!!!!!!!]
So here I am with yet another blog! Why did I bother with a new one? Well, I had a nice little blog right here at Vox, but I neglected it for way too long. My life has been going through some big changes (especially career-wise) lately and so blogging was the last thing on my mind.
Now however, I'm about to embark on a new phase of my life and I feel I really need blogging as a way to vent. So I figured, what the heck, new life, new blog! What's this new life about? Well, I used to work as Project Manager for a translation company. The job was fine but hardly what one would call inspiring. And for better or for worse, I'm one of those people that really needs to find some sort of meaning in what they do. So after much soul-searching, I decided to stop kidding myself and accept what I've known since I was about 6: all I ever wanted to do was either teach or be an artist. And so it is that I find myself in a position I never thought I'd be in again: writing applications... I'm applying for a teaching course in the UK. It is incredibly nerve-wracking, but hopefully, it will all be worth it in the end.
