ROSY RENES

It's been a while. "There's beauty in simplicity." The quote above teaches us to embrace things the way they are. It is good to accept things the way they are and be accepted for who you are. I personally love that quote. Sometimes we wondered, why are things, people and this world, are so complicated?  Things become complicated once we want to change it. If you want something to change, to be better, you must not wish for it to be simple, because a change is never simple. It shook the status quo,   and sometimes it even made us question our faith and what we believed in. But it is also good, because there's always something new on the menu for us to learn.

Yes, I've been away in 2015. It was a year full of trials, experiments, loss and self-discovery. I was preparing for my volunteer exchange abroad with AIESEC. I flunked in 2 subjects, was dealing with my grandfather's death, I was a mess. I found myself slowly drifting away, lost.  Eventually, on the summer holiday, I went for my exchange to Thailand, to teach English to children in the rural areas for 6 weeks. I hadn't the slightest idea of seeing myself to be a teacher. Yes, sometimes I taught my friends if they needed help, but it wasn't teaching , it's more like tutoring. I prayed so that I can be a good teacher, who's not only teaching English correctly, but also educating the children to do the right thing, to be a good human. The project was very important to me, it matters that I have to be a good teacher, and not to waste any of my time there. But I didn't know, that what I did, would mean so much for the children there.   I was placed in Si