Growth Mentality

I was looking into VIPKid mentioned in ravengirl's journal. I've run across it before, but it requires teaching experience, and I have only a little. But I ran across some volunteer work doing roughly the same thing, so I should look into that. Plus my boss wants me to do more information literacy instruction. It's all good, especially because I want to teach English overseas. New skills to acquire.

 

One of the books that I was reading on the trip had to do with acquiring a growth mentality rather than a fixed mentality. For example, think about intelligence as something that you can acquire instead of something that you either have or don't have. I'm trying to acquire a growth mentality about public speaking. It's not something that I enjoy, but I'm sure that I can get better at it.

 

I must have been tired because I got 10 hours of sleep. And I needed the alarm to get me up. Don't know why I've been so tired. I might nap a little after my dental appointment.

 

It's good to have Zara on my lap. She's been hyper though. Now Mimi is on my lap. I think that they missed me.

Volunteering/Mom Report

The volunteer tutoring place got back to me right away. There are some evening slots tutoring students in Haiti, so I'm going to sign up for Friday or Saturday nights.

 

They're running late at the dentist, although they did try to call me. Wish I had brought my Kindle. Wait, I have one on my phone.

 

It was a grueling two-hour appointment, but I'm done at the dentist.

 

Now that the anesthetic has worn off, my teeth are really hurting. I decided that I didn't feel like cleaning while my teeth hurt. So I called my mom instead.

 

Mom is still tired. Apparently my aunt is having surgery next week, but Mom doesn't feel like she can drive to Chicago to help out while she's so tired. She'd like to go somewhere too, but again, she's tired. I was wondering if we could take a long train trip together. It would be low energy, and she could doze when she needed to. Something to think about.

 

After the phone call, I tried to get Skype up and running for my volunteer work. I had to reinstall Skype.

 

I feel little kitty paws (Zara) on my shoulder.