#InternDiaries Chp 0.1: I Trust my High Heels

                                                         

Welcome to Marietta's Intern Diaries, 

where she would be writing about the basic life and thoughts

 of an intern.

I have started doing my student teaching internship. It is ermmm…… what’s the word? If I remember, I would tell you.

So, you see me so, I’m in my early twenties, but I look like someone who is a teenager. (No offense to me). Some girls are bigger than me. Some boys are bigger than me.

Anyway, it’s a funny experience. You are a teacher, talking on top of your voice, handling teenage boys (You can imagine!), handling teenage girls (another story), but you don’t get paid.

I haven’t really written down what I have been going through but hey, it’s another kind of world.

Being a small person is really something. A student walks to you to inquire of something, then you have to raise your head to listen to the person because the person is bigger and taller than you. This is where high heels comes in. You have to wear them to become taller than them and superior to them.

I am not saying I am short or anything. I have the average height. My size is what I am talking about here, and also your young face and stature. After teaching, all I do is to come back to my working desk, sit in front of my computer and laugh in my head.

My high heels makes me look smart, and my glasses already shows that I am that kind of a geek/nerd. Someone who understands the computer, and has been using it all year long (apart from blogging, hehehe xx.)

Anyway, thank you heels. You make me feel good. But walking in it to and fro during a computer practical session is another wahala.

Thanks for reading. See you later.

Editor In Chief

I always dream of this: the title.

Does this photo make me look like girlboss?

Editor in chief?

Chief Executive Officer?

It was my dream and it is still my dream of working for a magazine company, whether a popular one or my own magazine company.

That’s one of the reasons why I started this blog; TheMarietta DeGrant Blog is like my magazine company and I am the CEO and editor in chief.

I always imagine the life of someone working in a magazine company.

Having planners with events and duties

Abundance of cameras and studio equipment

Cute notebooks of ideas

Reviewing and rejecting articles (ouch)

Working on drafts

Photoshoots

Interviewing ordinary people and celebrities

Selfies at work pictures

Editorial conferences

Sending newsletters

Website and social media updates

Typing and editing

Designing magazine covers

I will work there. Someday.

Movie Review: Like Stars on Earth

Hello. Good morning! It’s a beautiful day and although, I’m not sure of the weather forecast and the sun is not yet out, I hope the sun shines (not so hard, lol), so that the light can enter my room to make it feel lively.

Today, I bring to you a movie review. I don’t remember the last time I wrote a movie review on the blog since La Bamba. I normally do novel reviews, but hey, no problem. Today is a movie review of a movie I watched recently, and it's from Bollywood. I’m probably the last one to watch this, but I have watched it more than five times already since the Easter Break.

Alright, the movie is Like Stars on Earth, originally titles Taare Zameen Par. It is a movie of a boy, Ishaan Awasthi, played by Darsheel. He is what we call, a student with special needs.

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight year old boy who had academic problems and no one understood him. He was always compared to his big brother his big brother, Yohaan (Yohaan loved his brother so much), who excels well in school. Apart from his academic failure, he has poor grooming skills. No one understood him, and his father thought he was just been lazy and so, he was sent to a boarding school.

Depression and loneliness sets in.

There, he made a friend, Rajan and met a teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, played by Aamir Khan, who helped him to change his academic performance to a better one.

Amazingly, Ishaan has a great talent for art. His imagination might be absurd but he turns them into art.

Reasons why I love the movie+ Lessons I learnt

The movie is great for teachers to know that, every child is special no matter how dumb he is

Ishaan, though, had lots of problems, has a huge sense of humour

Success is not defined by being a doctor or engineer. You can be whatever you want, success is yours.

I found out about famous people who suffered from dyslexia

There are many students with special needs. They special needs are not physical only. You have to be patient with such students.

Develop your talent and embrace it.

Brothers love you, not matter what you are.

Quotes from the movie that I loved

 "There's a merciless and competitive world out there. And in this crazy world, everybody wants to grow toppers and rankers. Everyone wants a genius for a kid. Doctors, engineers, MBA. Nothing less is tolerated. 95.5%. 95.6%. 95.7%. Anything less is blasphemy, isn't it?"

 "Every child has his own capabilities, his own desires, his own dreams."

 "To show you that there have been such gems amongst us who have changed the course of the world because they could look at the world differently. Their thinking was out of box and not everyone understood them"

"On the Solomon islands, when the tribes need to clear the jungle to make way for fields, they don't cut down the trees, they simply gather and collect around it, and hurl abuses at the tree, they curse it. Slowly but surely, after some days, the trees begin to wither. It dies on its own."

Have you watched the movie? What did you learn from it?

PS. Cute faces of Ishaan

Making the Right Choice (Tertiary Forms)

This post is purposely for those who are about to buy tertiary institution forms.

That time has come again, where students don’t know what tertiary institution forms to buy and which courses to choose. Don’t worry, I’m here to give you a tiny little bit of help. At least.

Alright, before you decide to buy the tertiary institution forms and fill, here are some tips.

Always check out the media for information

Be on the lookout for any information on sale of university forms, especially in the print media.  Mostly, the public university have their sale advertisement in the newspapers, and the private ones, have theirs on the TV and radios, but check both to be certain and sure. You can also ask from the post offices for more information.

Have enough money

Perhaps, you want to buy about one or two or more forms, you need to save enough money for that purpose.

Also, before purchasing, get to know the institutions that offer the programme you want to read to avoid buying unnecessary forms and waste of money.

Know your passion

What course do you want to offer? What are your passion and talents? Search for schools that offer what you want to study. You also need to have other options (Choices), at least 3.

What’s your grade?

Before buying forms, check the course’s cut off point aggregate (aggregate of high school final exam grade). You might consider writing WASSCE remedial if you feel the grade is not really good for the programme you want to read. For matured students, they write entrance exams. Make sure you study hard to pass your examination.

Seek help

If you need advice, you might want to consult your parents, teachers or any elderly person in your dream field, to help you with your choice of school and courses.

Go for workshops

If you are still in doubt of what schools to buy and what to read, attend workshops that help students who are now entering into tertiary schools choose the right career choices.

Now that you have bought the forms, what is next?

Make your particulars ready

Some schools request for your passport sized photographs, birth certificates, WASSCE cert and other stuffs, when filling the forms. Make those particulars ready to avoid rushed situations.

Now that you have submitted your forms, lay back and have faith.

Success in all your endeavours.