30 October 2019 · Sara Marugan
A mother's birthday
This article was machine-translated from Sara's Catalan original. The writing is hers; the translation has not been reviewed by a person. Read the Catalan original →
Today, my first birthday as a mother! A different sort of birthday, too. The first year of my baby's life, who has gone from embryo to foetus to baby to child. He is already 13 months old! How time flies. An ordinary working day, except that today I sold my first online C2 course, whose materials I had been putting together for over a year. Small dreams that end up coming true! Thank you, Dalila, for buying that course today of all days and for valuing the work behind it. I am sure you will pass the exam comfortably around May. Every document in the course carries my breath and my soul.
I also want to tell you about the other thing keeping me busy: creating the preparation courses for the Catalan language and literature teaching exams. The latest addition is the practical course — linguistic commentary, literary commentary and practical cases. An enormous amount of work that will soon see the light.
And to round it off: the teaching programme for Year 9 Catalan, following the Catalan government's current competence-based model, is already at the printer's. It is being published by Educàlia. I cannot wait to see it as a book, with an ISBN of its own!
To end the day, after a big family dinner, I want to say hello to my current Year 10 and sixth-form students.
A hug to everyone!
Sara
Foto de portada: «The Good Mother», by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c. 1762–1763). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
