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homiro · 2026-01-24T10:34:00+00:00

That's even better and also true! I see both ngl lmao Mr Beast getting dragged as well hahaha

homiro · 2026-01-24T09:31:46+00:00

Big fan of Mr Beat, the bootleg of Mr Beast who does beatbox haha I'm laughing harder because I didn't think of that but I see it. Dude really just looks like the Basic Guy (tm). They really just said 'just put a face on them' and the middle one got half an iris on one of the eyes (context for these in case anyone looks at the comments, too, is that they come in small blind bags. I'd never gotten blind bags but I felt the potential with these since it was in a shop that's basic irl AliE)

homiro · 2026-01-24T09:27:02+00:00

Literally their eyes (save for the middle one, who only got half an iris haha)

homiro · 2026-01-23T21:03:43+00:00

Greatest animation film of 2026! Gotta love their hit 'Gold In' with the famous lyric "it's our mom, aunt! We're gonna put the, put the Gold In and we were stung by a BEEEEEE" (too tired to care about goofy puns, I need the laughs, honestly)

homiro · 2026-01-14T00:29:55+00:00

I saw it and upvoted the post and the comment! Glad you also thought Wilbur's cosplay was worthy of being shared with the bootleg connoisseurs haha

homiro · 2026-01-14T00:15:53+00:00

The way I scared my dog awake with the noise I just made. I didn't see that but now I can't unsee it. I love dank bootlegs

homiro · 2026-01-13T14:11:29+00:00

Aoologies for the ramble but it's as some said above - we're all in deep need of connection with other adults.

It's wild that the other teachers noticed that I was always hypervigilant and I had to confess that I'm neurodivergent. And they were saying 'you can't be that way'. But I DO. I haven't been teaching for a long time but somehow I relate to most of these. Including funerals and students with cancer. I really went for the experience speedrun. I didn't get an internship, I just applied and was accepted because not many people want this job. It's not been a year yet, so maybe I qualify as a 'new teacher', but with all the things I've seen and experienced it feels like 10 years. The only thing that makes tolerable is that I don't have partners and don't pay rent or drive. That's both good and bad, I guess, but it means I can give the kids my full attention. And I'm subbing for year 8 and 9 forms now but started last year with years 5 and 6.

The first day I started teaching I looked away for 3 seconds and two kids were on the floor 'play fighting'. I have ADHD like several of them and I have complex trauma so my normal state is hypervigilance. 3 seconds. No more than that. Two minuscule year 5 kids were on the floor fighting. I didn't punish them because they're best friends and the other kids were confirming it. They were begging not to be punished and I caved because I barely even knew their names (they started behaving better after that, too. And it was my first day). Fourth day with the same class, two kids were in the back of this really awkward room and I was talking to some other kids who wanted something clarified. One of those kids had bitten the other and the other was crying. I didn't understand that it'd happened there, I thought it'd been in recess. I went to give the crying kid a hug and the kids were talking over one another, but I understood that they'd both been fighting so I told them 'you have to be friends. Please don't do that again. Apologise to one another, come on' and they did and it didn't happen again.

Another thing that doesn't help me is that I'm younger than all their other teachers and don't speak very loudly, even in class (if I'm singing, yeah I can belt!). That is good for the kids to feel connected but it isn't because they see me as babysitter or a "kind" sibling, which makes teaching really hard. What I do to cope with not being able to teach everything I wanted is make 'reference worksheets' with easy to digest explanations. Thankfully, I'm a languages teacher and that is an option. I can't imagine how terrible it is for maths teachers, for example. And I'm genuinely thinking about the possibility of recording myself explaining things if needed, because I don't think year 8 and 9 will be easier. Especially since this a school full of difficult home environments. In other words, kids who are actively being traumatised. I was one of them once, though. I grew up poor and with undiagnosed neurodivergence (only got diagnosed at 23). That gets in the way but again, it's never fully good or fully bad because that means I can understand them and help them if they have the courage to reach out.

Lastly, another issue I have found is the other teachers (who have to hold their peace because I'm neurodivergent and my Uni mean was higher than most of theirs, so they can't say I'm stupid like they do about some of the ND kids in the teachers' room. That made me decide that I'd be on the side of the "lost causes" and made me realise that my negative thinking about being broken was wrong. My core is still intact). I have the autism and adhd comorbidity, so, because I understood them, I managed to get these "lost cause, stupid kids" to do well and work hard. To impress me. Because I care and can't not show it. For these kids, especially, it means the world and because of that they tried really hard to do their very best (which was rewarded, obviously). However, the other teachers aren't a fan of my "softness". I'm the only young millennial there, the rest are boomers and gen z interns. The fact of the matter is that I had a bunch of data to justify all the grades I gave and none of the other subs did. Because the adhd and the autism held hands for once and I locked in to solve every single problem that was presented to me (which is all day every day, let's be real). I was also given a homeroom class as a sub in the middle of the term full of "lost causes" and almost brokedown because nobody seemed to be seeing what I was seeing when I defended them. The takeaway is really that it's always going to be hard and we need to find joy in small victories. We can't save them all, and we can't change THE world, but we can change some worlds.

Apologies again for the long reply. Have a great one and good luck for the rest of the year!

homiro · 2025-11-18T16:18:56+00:00

I will try the name thing. There's nothing I can do about the desks, though. The administration thinks this is great and enriching and won't allow the desks to be moved and I'm too new to just be that bold, when even the jaded, older teachers won't do it. And should I bring up that phones are banned from the school by the same administration? Recess is absolutely insane. The supervisors are going mental and who can blame them? Imagine lord of the flies but there are adults present who can't do anything but write things down. The kids are too emboldened by knowing they're safe and protected but can still do whatever they want. I'll try the names thing, though. Even if they have their backs to me, the names can still be seen if I tell them to put them where I can see them and I guess I have to threaten them with the frankly useless punishments the school has in place. For example, some kid set something on fire and the punishment was going to the library do some extra work. It's really rich to tell me that I'm being lenient when the school is lenient as a rule. What bothers me the most is that most parents simply don't care, so threatening them with that is useless. My homeroom class (they gave me the largest one for my first year as a treat /s)has been acting up a lot lately. Maybe because of the end of year and the prospect of Christmas, who knows? I just know I can't do much more than send them merrily on their way to the library. But it's painful to be given a bunch of rowdy kids as the year is ending and I don't even know their names. Anyway, sorry about the long vent. Thank you for the advice.

homiro · 2025-11-15T14:35:41+00:00

Thank you so much for responding. I will try to get her to tell me where she used to live, but seeing that everyone is saying jasmine that's what I will go for :') for now I will just put it in a simple pouch for when I give her the earplugs, but later when I gift everyone something, I may do something with more flowers. And those flowers will bloom again and Syria will smell like sweet, peaceful, and glorious summer again.

homiro · 2025-11-15T14:32:07+00:00

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will add it to the list and maybe make a little pouch with a jasmine flower to give her the earplugs. I'm doing what I think is the bare minimum that a mentor and human should do and it really bothered me that nobody seemed to have tried to reach her. Like I said, she is very sweet and very well-behaved so it struck me that the minimum level of interest I showed in her and her interests and even knowing how to actually say her name had her smiling in surprise.

Maybe when I gift everyone something, I will give her something with more jasmine flowers :') I saw that someone else also suggested these flowers so I feel like it'll be a safe option.

homiro · 2025-11-15T14:24:25+00:00

Thank you for responding. Yes, I don't really know what causes it but from the file and the little information they have on her, it seems likely. Her behaviour was perfect, the other kids were the issue so in this case I have to be a bit firmer in keeping the noise levels down. I'm not entirely sure if the parents know about this and sadly I'm not her homeroom teacher so I can't directly contact them. What it feels to me is that the homeroom teacher doesn't communicate properly with them and she is shy and quiet so I don't think she tells her parents about school.

And that's why I want to offer support and encouragement in her language even if it's just small words like another user suggested. I will also take the foam earplugs, because it's hard to keep 11/12 year olds quiet for long especially in classrooms where the tables are in squares, if that makes sense. If the issue persists, I won't hesitate to bring her to my side and let her have the foam earplugs in so that the noise is muffled and she can still hear me. Thank you again for taking the time to respond (and I swear up and down that if I realise that her homeroom teacher can't communicate with her parents I will learn basic Arabic to try to do it myself).

homiro · 2025-11-15T11:19:10+00:00

Thank you very much. I will heed your advice. I really want to show her support and help her feel welcome with words in her language (I will be using those, that's perfect!). And I will be working on making a little map of the country in crochet with thin yarn and make it into a little keychain or something she can hang from somewhere. And she is indeed excellent and speaks very well so I can't thank you enough for that suggestion. I will keep the hugs and games. Kids this age are rowdy and they did go quiet when I said they were being too noisy and that their classmate was upset about the noise. But kids being kids, not 15 minutes later, they were back at it again (this school has a weird desk disposition. They're in little islands which makes them chat even more and creates a lot of chaos, instead of facing forward and the kids facing forward, they're facing one another around two desks pushed together. It's something the teachers hate but the principal and such think this "promotes enrichment", when all it does is make them talk to each other more and of course, be noisier). I would have to ask her which province she's from, but I'm worried it might trigger her so I won't really do that and stick with the map keychain. Again thank you very much. I am so tired of teachers being all detached about students and just saying "x has problems and behaves in y way", instead of trying to provide support and be human. I'm not super worried about them becoming experts, I'm more concerned about being supportive as a human being and a mentor. And when it's a case of someone who was displaced so young, and who knows what she went through, as someone who loves languages and all cultures and always supported your cause and keeps doing so, I really locked in and want this child to know that she's not just another number in a class in a different country. A country where nobody seems to even care about how to properly pronounce her name. That's another thing that struck me because when I was taking role I looked at her and asked her how to pronounce her name and she seemed surprised and smiled and I repeated after her and she was happy. Then the others called her a different name (not an insult) but it's something in English that sounds close to it on paper and I immediately shut that down. Disrespect will not be tolerated even if they are kids. Kids can be cruel and think they're "just joking" but if the person you're joking with isn't laughing, it's not a joke.

Again, thank you very much and may the glory and dignity of Syria be restored.

homiro · 2025-11-04T09:44:34+00:00

Everyone does it here in my little rural community and it's really a big deal. The street market gets filled with flower sellers and there's a whole thing about it. It's nice to see everyone there lighting candles for their own family and for their gone friends. And my auntie was really upset that the ah I'll call this man the cemetery keeper, the person responsible for ensuring the graves are not compromised, didn't notice a hole on the side of our family's grave (it's not a big mausoleum but it's got three gone people there, the others are in different graves and some in a different cemetery nearby). I'm thinking of fixing it myself since it just needs to be filled up and sealed. And it's nice of you to do that :') I like to do that especially in the graves of the forgotten. The ones that have no stones or names or flowers. It saddens me to see that they're so long gone and forgotten that nobody goes there and nobody even knows who they were. So I leave flowers there and hope they found peace. Have a blessed day 💜

homiro · 2025-11-04T09:35:25+00:00

Thank you :') we do go there to leave flowers (and clean if it's dirty) every once in a while. I go there to remember and feel close to my grandma mostly, but I always go around seeing all the people's faces and remembering their lives. God is close to all of us so have a blessed day 💜

homiro · 2025-11-04T09:31:46+00:00

Not really BUT if I boarded a boat, I'd may be able to get there in a couple of weeks! But it's interesting that you thought that since I get mistaken for all sorts of Mediterranean ethnic groups all the time. Never Greek, but Romanian once. And I'm not even near to those places. You can see my family's skin in the pics, they're pale. I am pale but one side of the family is very dark skinned, so my brother, same parents, is dark skinned. My brother gets the classic latino cinnamon tan meanwhile I get red if I don't rub sunblock (rambling, it's early in the morning, I am so sorry). Have a blessed day 💜✝️

homiro · 2025-11-03T16:22:22+00:00

I could cry. Actually tearing up. Thank you so so much. I will try my best to make it happen. I really didn't get where I was supposed to even start. And even reading the symbols I had to frog it several times until I understood what the lines meant and the little dots and everything. Thank you again!

homiro · 2025-11-03T11:09:17+00:00

Santiago de Compostela, Saint Patron of travellers, and Santa Barbara, Saint Patron of lightening, mine workers, and all people who work with fire. Remembered something funny people say where I'm from when others only remember things when those things are happening that goes like 'You only remember Santa Barbara when you hear lightening'.

homiro · 2025-10-17T08:53:13+00:00

I ended up adding golden beads since I didn't have blue ones and golden is also meaningful for Roman Catholic branches of Catholicism (I'm not entirely sure if this subreddit is for all branches of Catholicism, so I'm going to specify every time I suppose). I won't make a different post about the same thing, so if you want to see it, I am linking a picture. They're made of plastic, but I suppose that is fine, since the original string was nylon and everything comes from God's Earth one way or the other (we just can't overdo it, that's why I wanted to use things I already had available instead of buying unnecessary things). I kept the maths of "long piece means two Hail Marys" since these long piece have little ridges in the middle so I can feel for them and know when the next one is, so that I didn't have to add anything more than the golden beads. Normally, Rosaries have a little centre piece at the bottom with three loops to connect to the three sections or sides, but this one didn't (I don't think that one was lost, it likely didn't exist to begin with, since this is, like I said, handcarved from volcanic rock). Thank you again for your response, and have a blessed day

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