Goodbye 2022 - Blog Posts
Happy neaw year everybody!!
Wish you the best!
Happy new year to everyone all over the world!! Let's all say goodbye to 2022 and all the great and bad memories that we all made this year, and welcome 2023 by anticipating even greater times this year!!
2022 was brutal. But I’ve got a feeling next year will be better.
now what?
Story #44 “Say Goodbye to 2022”
In our last lesson I asked my students to come up with three words to describe their 2022. There were many different words. Some good. Some bad. There was anger. The was silence. There were missed opportunities and new chances.
All in all, 2022 was a miasma of ruined dreams and suffocating thoughts, but.. (there’s always a big hairy ‘but’ lurking around the corner) some good things happened too.
1. I wrote a 3000-word story in @ira.lutse.ielts Creative writing club, which happened to be just a premise for a bigger story I’m still writing. Will it be a novella? A novelscicle? A novellete? We’ll see.
2. I finally took the Lexical Approach course I wanted to do for so long and completed it successfully.
3. I was a speaker at the Meaningful weekend conference, where together with Ben Brooks we talked about pros and cons of Breakout rooms and the Main room while giving online lessons!
4. I became a curator in Daria Maslovskaya’s exclusive collocations and chunks course.
5. I hosted two sessions in @ira.lutse.ielts Writing Incubator project, and both were a blast!
6. I graduated from Anita Modestova’s Teachers Teach Teachers 3-year long school!
7. I hosted a few sessions in (again!) @ira.lutse.ielts Creative writing summer based entirely on the story I had written in winter.
8. Numerous speaking sessions designed and hosted for the American Moscow Centre.
9. Then, I started writing fanfiction stories. I’ve been an avid reader of those for at least 15 years now and finally took a plunge and wrote a few stories of my own. I even took part in two fanfiction exchanges, where I was randomly assigned someone’s prompt and OMG, how much fun it was! I’m looking forward to doing it again in 2023!
10. I took CELTA! Just one big WOW.
11. And somewhere along the way I took an IELTS mock test just to check myself and for the first time ever I got 8.5 for writing! Not that it was a real test, but now there’s hope I can do it again.
12. Then I became a member of a wonderful community of teachers YOU MATTER, created by lovely
13. I have posted 44 stories in my blog 642stories.tumblr.com Not bad I should say. I will keep it up!
That’s it.
We cannot change so many things around, but I’m grateful for being able to keep doing what I’m good at and become a better teacher, a better parent, and a better person.
