#Resilient schools

[westvalleyfaultph]

Philippines Seeks $500 Million World Bank Loan for Safer and Resilient Schools

Scan the QR code to get this news on the go. In a significant move to bolster the Philippines’ education infrastructure and disaster preparedness, the government is actively pursuing a $500 million loan from the World Bank. The funds will be channeled into the Infrastructure for Safer and Resilient Schools project, aimed at rehabilitating schools affected by natural disasters like typhoons and…

[study-diaries]

How to avoid drama in your life. (School/Work/Family)

Hate to say this but i don't really think some people can just live their life without poking into other's business and causing unnecessary turmoil so, here's a guide to avoid all types of unnecessary drama in your life.

A full communication circle.

Communication is the main cause for most fights so, here's the thing. When there is something that needs to be done, inform all necessary people about it in advance. Here's a mistake most do, they just tell one person and ask them to put forward the message to the others but tell them directly. Literally, it is the safest option for you, like no one can blame you that you didn't tell them. No one can hold it against you. So tell them directly. And from time to time get repeated reminders so they remember.

Don't involve yourself in unnecessary talks

This is serious. If you are sitting and your friends are complaining about someone, you just listen to them. Don't add on to the things and hype up them. If you know that person isn't like that, defend them subtly. Involving in gossip is the worst. When someone says something about another person or even you then just reply with "I don't really care, they are/ I am free to do whatever they/I want." Or "I don't have the energy for this." Or "It's really none of my business/concern".

If you demand respect, you need to give respect.

Be nice to everyone, I am serious about this. Even if you're not friendly with the person or you don't like them, just be nice. It won't hurt you or them. Even if they do something to hurt you, just let it go with a "Meh it's fine but i would appreciate it if you won't do it again". This may even work people up a bit, handle yourself with care. Make it seem that their presence doesn't actually threaten you.

Calm composure.

Keep yourself calm and composed whenever you're faced with a difficult situation, do not react immediately, take a breath. I usually just frown but more than that, I won't react to anything. It takes some practice but eventually, this is useful. The reason for you to maintain a calm composure is because if the person who hurt you is looking for a dramatic reaction, don't give them the satisfaction.

Better articulation

Especially if it's important instructions! When someone accuses you of something, don't immediately raise your voice, think for a moment, let them wait and then reply with what had actually happened in your point of view.

Apologize. Even if it isn't your fault.

Sometimes, people are just shitty and they won't understand even if you explain it a hundred or a million times. In those case, just say the magic two letter word -> "I'm sorry" or "I apologise". Your worth doesn't come down just because you apologised, on the other hand, you just became a better person than the other one.

It's simply not your damn business.

When someone directly tells you about their life etc etc. You lend a compassionate ear to them. If it's a story going around the whole place, it's simply not your business. And you can say this directly to the person passing the gossip, if they argue then that means you now actualy are aware of another gossip machine.

Don't EVER share your opinions on important matters with a person higher than you! Especially not in front of other people!

I'm damn serious, you don't know who will have it against you so, be careful around who you're saying things to. Other important matters include opinions about the specific person, politics, nationality, culture etc etc. Be sensitive.

Break the chain

When you hear something bad is going around and it reaches you, keep it to your damn self. Don't go adding the fuel to the fire like the rest!

Do not assume!

Don't assume about a situation or a person. Clarify. Always clarify. You may not know what the other person was going through, you don't know everything. Just don't think something, clarify it. No body is going to get mad at you for clarifying.

Make excuses.

When you hear someone talking bad about someone else. Defend them. Make excuses. I don't mean lie to them, I mean saying things like, "It's alright. You don't know what they were going through." Or "Maybe something happened that you don't know about." Personally, I always use the second one because I feel like, sometimes, people aren't bad guys. Situations make them act like that. Povs differ. So be mindful.

Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

If there is an argument. Do the classic Harvey Specter thing. You improve arguments with a neutral tone. Don't sound mocking or cocky, sound like you're just explaining to them. This won't escalate the scenario. (The quote was actually given by Desmond Tutu)

Hope this helps! :)

[lockheed-martin-unofficial]

This Starscream is a bastard and I love to draw him

[paradife-loft]

semi-related, but - I would really like to see more (esp public-facing) urban disaster & evacuation planning that didn't begin with "step one: load all your essential supplies into the car that you definitely own"

[ruegarding]

like, the coding of percy's kidnapping would be a great way to incorporate other forms of disability into pjo's conversation. percy missing months of the previous school year and struggling to make up for it so he can graduate on time shows how difficult keeping on top of school is when u have a disability that causes u to miss school. so i'm hoping rick will be more direct abt using this to make a commentary on disability and school in the new triolgy, but i'm not exactly holding my breath.

[lollytea]

I really love hope is a thing with feathers and I also really LOVE the hope as a sewer rat poem too but I wish it was not explicity written as "well actually" against Dickinson asgvsjnk. The imagery is SO GOOD but this whole vibe of "my metaphor is better than your metaphor" kinda sours it for me

[bright-and-burning]

🐑💗 #summer vacation #strangers to lovers #insomnia #bittersweet ending

🐑 send me a fake set of fic tags, and i’ll try to come up with a summary for it!

There’s music playing down the beach. Oscar doesn’t usually make it this far, has always turned back earlier in the desperate hope of falling asleep before the glaring red lines of his clock display 4:00. He’s kind of annoyed, honestly. Can’t even have a crisis in peace, he thinks, immediately irritated at his own dramatics. Oscar keeps walking. It’s not often his walks are interrupted by anything other than drunk teenagers, though that’s probably still the case here. Hey kids, got any career advice? Oscar snorts, shaking himself out of his thoughts, and stops.

The source of the music is clear. A beachside bar, full of flashing lights and not much else. There’s a man wiping down tables, warbling along enthusiastically to a song Oscar doesn’t recognize. Something too sad for the tiki bar themed plastic surrounding him.

Oscar raps his knuckles on the railing marking the edge of the bar. “Still open, or?”

The man startles, turning to look at Oscar. He runs a hand through his hair, somehow getting glitter in his wilting curls.

Oscar stifles a laugh.

“Can’t serve alcohol at this hour, but you can sit for a bit,” he says, clearly eyeing the bags under Oscar’s eyes. He goes back to his table, scrubbing at a sticky spot. “Not really the usual crowd, are you?”

[phleb0tomist]

if you guys ever wonder why i put words like ‘willpower’ and ‘deserve’ in quotation marks it’s because I don’t believe those concepts exist, at least not in the sense of having to earn things like safety and rest, or having to endure pain to get basic needs met. the fact of the matter is that willpower and resilience are 100x easier to have if the biopsychosocial factors of your life are set up in the right way, and you often have zero control over those factors. these are things like the class or caste you’re born into, your unavoidable social environment, job access/resource access/social access, genetics and biological predispositions, immutable factors like race sex ability neurodivergence orientation etc, and how much autonomy you are granted by others over your own body and decisions.

as my life circumstances have changed (totally out of my individual control), it has become way easier to pull myself up by my bootstraps and snap out of emotions etc, and it has NOTHING to do with how hard i’m trying. I was trying a lot harder a few years ago, I believe i had more willpower then, so by all logic i deserved to have this kind of self mastery before. it didn’t come. i only gained ‘resilience’ after my life circumstances changed. I didn’t earn it and I didn’t try. i find this a really annoying concept and also hard to explain, idk if anyone else has similar experiences

[thefandomlesbian]

The older I get, the more I realize I am attracted to the same archetype in fictional intrapersonal relationships, and therefore all of my ships across all fandoms are the same characters in different fonts.

[souenkun]

It's my birthday today, and I'm now as old as kita shinsuke in the timeskip! 🥳

[galaxysharks]

somehow, maddox only gets lightly sick one day, despite her usually getting very severely sick most of the time. she's not even delirious. it's a miracle

jet: wow, this is better than usual. most of the time, maddox is one step away from falling into death's arms.

maddox: shut the fuck up

jet: hey maddie remember when you got a fever and you were pretty much dying on our living room floor

maddox: says you, mr "i basically fall into a coma whenever i'm sick".

ashlyn, who has never heard any of this:

It's almost more inconvenient that she's only a little sick.

Like, don't get it twisted, she rather dislikes nearly dying every few months, as do most people. And it's nice that she doesn't have to make up work. And she is always going to be the LAST PERSON to be excited about losing any amount of conscious time....

But God is she sooo over this sniffles bullshit. Like, great! She can still go to school and see Ash! But everything hurts and she feels like a slimy faucet. And she's just a little more tired than she should be. And she can't taste anything, and her hearings all messed up.

And the day is sooo loonnggg.... and she still has to do P.E? What's up with that? And she can't even have medicine, stupid allergies....

Look, all she's saying is maybe there's a reason Jet and her spend their less than 100% days unconscious or delirious.

Good news tho, Ash is almost as comfortable as Jet as a pillow, and the views definitely better.

[iksydk]

i think working in emergency management would be so fitting for me and my interests. i used to be obsessed as a kid w the cold war and civil defense programs. but i couldn’t articulate what i wanted to know. i wanted to know why they were the way they were, why they made the choices they did and what they’re doing now in the same way. covid fascinated me bc of that. i worked for ups at the time and i loved reading the internal information system stuff about it bc it seemed they already had some plan and i wanted to be the people that did that.

[planstransamanacanalpanema]

I am OK. I am doing good work. I am proud of myself.

I take good care of my cat. I take decent care of myself. I know when to fight. I know when to relax. I am going to pass my last two nursing school pre recs while working full time. I am going to get into nursing school. I am competent and capable. I am worthy of a friend's time, not as a transaction, but because I am an interesting and worthy human being.

[mars-ipan]

did anyone else’s public school system have like an obsession with the word/acronym “grit” and just like constantly shove the definitions of the words gumption resilience integrity and tenacity down their throats or was that just mine. either way what was up with that

[uswe]

Not sure if I am broken by dint of burnout or grad school or overwork or disability. I would like to create again. But my notes document with fic ideas has been untouched since my performance review and realizing I need to publish more papers.

Probably a therapist would help? But a dentist is more urgent. Also nagging the plumber.

[cicadangel]

writing my personal statement college essay has been harder than I thought not because the writing itself is hard, or that it's hard to come up with ideas, but everything I've written just feels like. normal. like good normal girl writing. it's too clean... I need to write something strange!!