Hi. I'm still on my break and it really feels like forever already I actually can't wait for classes to start. Now it's postponed one more week due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
No new updates. I'm done with my volunteering thing. I'll try to recap it less formally unlike the previous reflections which needed to be submitted. In some ways.. it was healing? Yes, I get exhausted at the end of each day, but on the other hand I was getting good sleep (I sleep at 9/10PM most days to wake up at 5AM), drinking a lot of water (2-3 big bottles while at the center from the heat and physical activity) and doing exercise. As I am also too busy to check my phone throughout the day, I really got to be in the moment and it was so.. mind-clearing? Like mindfulness? I really had no chance to overthink or have my mind wandering around, and as I learnt in Psychology, a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. There were a lot of days when I'm sat down on the floor exhausted watching over the kids napping under the air-cond that I feel totally at peace. It's as if I'm separated from all the grown-up problems and conflicts happening outside, happening online, and I'm thinking to myself, this IS the real world, what's in front of me. I'm also so grateful for the human connections that I got to make in this experience. As I mentioned, I have groupmates and we often have deep meaningful conversations in the almost empty KTM train every day back. I really thought a lot about the art of talking and listening through these conversations.
Good night.
No new updates. I'm done with my volunteering thing. I'll try to recap it less formally unlike the previous reflections which needed to be submitted. In some ways.. it was healing? Yes, I get exhausted at the end of each day, but on the other hand I was getting good sleep (I sleep at 9/10PM most days to wake up at 5AM), drinking a lot of water (2-3 big bottles while at the center from the heat and physical activity) and doing exercise. As I am also too busy to check my phone throughout the day, I really got to be in the moment and it was so.. mind-clearing? Like mindfulness? I really had no chance to overthink or have my mind wandering around, and as I learnt in Psychology, a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. There were a lot of days when I'm sat down on the floor exhausted watching over the kids napping under the air-cond that I feel totally at peace. It's as if I'm separated from all the grown-up problems and conflicts happening outside, happening online, and I'm thinking to myself, this IS the real world, what's in front of me. I'm also so grateful for the human connections that I got to make in this experience. As I mentioned, I have groupmates and we often have deep meaningful conversations in the almost empty KTM train every day back. I really thought a lot about the art of talking and listening through these conversations.
Good night.
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