SEMESTER 2 (S2): Meta-Reflection (600 words)
Semester two of first year went even quicker than I could have imagined. I had great intentions of being on top of everything, if not ahead of where I needed to be. However, my first reflection more or less set the tone for the rest of my semester to come. I have had to learn that things don’t always go to plan, life happens and there’s just not much you can do about it sometimes. I do however think that I have learned a lot from this year and will utilise my experience of this year going forward into second year. I was extremely nervous starting semester two with the thought of school placement and the Gaeltacht ahead of me. I was nervous that I wouldn’t enjoy placement and that my class would be difficult to handle. As for the Gaeltacht, I desperately want to improve my Irish but it is a source of severe anxiety for me as a mature student and one of the reasons I didn’t apply for teaching back when I was in school. For these reasons, I wanted to get ahead of my work so that ...