The journey continues...

The academic year has begun and I am back to teaching after a lovely break. 

The first week of work coincided with induction week at Uni and I am not going to lie, I felt a bit overwhelmed ( ↑ see picture of what my desk looks like when I try to organize myself). 

So what to do when feeling like there is so much to do? 

By the end of the week, today precisely, I think I found an answer: start with one thing at the time and slowly proceed. Be open to changes. And I say that because I usually succeed at organizing, but now more than ever we know that life can be unpredictable and sometimes it's about how we react to changes. 

I am now beginning module three of my MA studies which consists in developing my research and preparing to share it. I am genuinely excited to 'officially' explore a topic that resonated with me for so long that I thought about it everyday for the past five years at least. 

What I expected to achieve from my inquiry at the beginning, might not actually be what I find out at the end of it. The questions I ask when gathering all the information might not lead to an easy answer. Sometimes they don't even lead to an answer at all! What I know for now is that this research has a big value to me and so does what I experience during its process.

Today there has been an online session where our academic team shared the journey that lead to their  professional practice. 

There were a few elements during the conversation that I identified with:

- The desire to break away from 'conventional' and explore something else around it.

- Recognizing that our practice is not necessarily separate from our private life, instead it is affected by what happens to us and around us.

Once again, listening to someone else share their experiences has been useful to me. It once again lead to the thought that my practice is (and should be) constantly evolving. What I do and what I know can be influenced by many circumstances. My knowledge is a constant dialogue, not only with others, but also with myself.