It was on the Halloween eve

The story of my death

My name is Boody. Actually I am a spirit. But I cannot get into the way that I am a spirit or a ghost.  By the way what’s the difference? Hmm, I don’t know, I think that there is no difference.   In both cases I am nothing, just a shadow of memories. But it’s not so important, because my aim is to tell you a story of my death and if it is interesting for you it was on the Halloween eve. Yes on the Halloween eve.

This night I was walking along. The reason was that I didn’t have any Halloween’s costume. You know everyone should have it, because according to legend it will protect you from evil and so forth.  But it was not my case. My mom thought that all this preparations were a kind of rubbish and she never believed sincerely in ghosts, witches or other vermin. So, at that day I didn’t have costume or mask or even bag for sweets. This day was the same as a hundreds of days in my short life, while all my friends with bright and funny costumes knocked at people’s doors for candy and they gave them what they want.

I was up sad and went into the park. There were no people at all; it was very strange because at such day it was really impossible.  But I was wrong. There, in a bench, was sitting an old lady.  She was very strange and it seemed to me that she was waiting for me. Yes, she was waiting, because she stared at me and pointed her bony finger at me and waved to me. I came up to her. I greeted her with the brilliant smile, but it was unnatural and I knew it.  There was no answer or reaction. But suddenly she turned round and asked:

- You are so sad, are you unhappy?

- Yes, because I don’t have any costume, everybody have a lot of fund, and costumes….

I didn’t finish and she asked again:

- is it your wish to have a costume?

- Yes, I answered

- Ok, Let it be, and she disappeared 

         I was sitting in a bench alone. It was cold. I felt anxiety. The wind rustled the leaves and something was behind me. I felt it but I was afraid to turn out and suddenly something slime began strangles me. My heart pounded even so fast, as fear trickled down my spine and I saw like the moon casted shadows on the corners and trees. I heard scrunches and howls, giggles and screams and then……silence. There was Nothing, there was just the feeling of comfort and calm. After that I opened my eyes. Everything was normal and even usual; nothing was change, except me. I was lying on the asphalt with open and scared eyes and at that moment I understood that it was the end of my life just one more game over of one more looser.  But for my luck I was wrong, it was just the beginning, beginning of my spiritual life, better life. Was this wish terrible or not, I don’t know. Because now I have another life and another problems and the best costume in the world, real costume. An every year I knocked at peoples doors for candy and they gave me what I want. Should I stop it or not? It is a rhetorical question, but it is my story and it is my way.

The best way of starting working.

Very few students like to do homework and everyone seems to put it off. It is very easy say that you will do it “later” but when “later” comes you still do not want to do it.  But it has to be done; you are going to have to finish it sometime. It is better done earlier than later.

But laziness is not the only problem. Sometime you simply do not know how to start. That is why students, pupils or just working people began to search reasons or excuse.

Now I am going to investigate different ways of starting working. Maybe it will help someone or it will just make your work a lot easier. So, there are different ways of starting working.

1)           Take a break when you get home from work, university or school. As for me, I like this way, because after that my productivity is much higher. Of course you can think about your homework when you are going home, it will save your time and increase your rest time. 

2)           Than you can choose a comfortable work place, with space to spread your work. But don’t spread it all over the place, because disorder will confuse you. 

3)           Make a list on paper, on sticker or on the computer and decide what you need to do. You can divide your list on such parts: important, difficult and last minute homework. The succession you can choose by yourself.  For example, for the first I choose the most important work and then I select the most difficult from this list. 

4)           Try to do as much as you can, because ones you are done with that you only have easy to do. If you get bored or lose focus take a quick break. I always drink tea or to listen to music. And after that I continue my work.

So the best way of starting working is to take a break when you get home from work, to choose a comfortable place and to make a list with what you need to do. Remember, after your work you can do everything what you want. And don’t forget that result is always testy. 

How to find a work-life balance for a perfect English teacher.

It is very difficult to find a work-life balance when your work life and personal life are out of control. In most cases our occupation is our life or even small world and finds this terrible balance is not so simple task, especially for teachers. But to tell the truth if you want to be a good one, you have to work hard and sometimes overtime may even be required, but not often.  I can give a lot of reasons why overtime is so destructive for your life balance.

The first is when you are tired your ability to work productively and think clearly may suffer -   which lead to dangerous or costly mistakes. 

And the most important reason is if you are working too much, you may miss important family events. This can leave you feeling left out and may harm relationships with your loved ones. Is success in work cost it?  You come home and nobody waits you. Of course you should work but not with fanaticism. So, start by evaluating your relationship to work. Because family is the most valuable gift from life.

Yes, it is difficult and sometimes impossible to stop working so hard, but teacher have to divide his work from his home, because work is only the way to earn money and nothing more. At home you have to be a wonderful mom, perfect wife and good friend, because we life for this people and work for them. 

At home you can take 2 or 3 hours for work, but the rest time is for your family.  Remember be a workaholic is not the way out. So, just try to live and you will see that everything will be better and you will find your long-awaited balance and rest.