My latest story of friendship in the workplace

Hello there,

I am 25 years old now, and I didn't expect my life to be like this. I'm quite surprised how a dreamer could turn out to be a successful person or just a full-time dreamer with laziness dominating her life.
I am in between both of them, I guess, as I am so flexible I could do absolutely nothing like a rock for a day, and on the other days I could be like a busy-bee and as productive as an ant.

I've worked for more than two years as an English teacher in an institution. I was lucky to meet a lot of new beautiful-hearted friends. I learnt a lot about growing up, discipline, teaching children and friendship everyday. A few of them are very mature and well-put that they remind me of moms. The others are like me, still have that immaturity that strangely changes when we're teaching the children.
You see, I don't have girl-crush with one particular friend as one of my old friends would think about me. I love all of them as my sisters I never had. I admire everyone of them for their ability to be themselves and be responsible with their decisions. I saw them leaving the institution one by one, to be married or to find other better workplace (the things that kept us working there were the salary, the colleagues and the students). It always strikes me with anguish to be parted from them. And when the day of my resignation came, Miss Evi gave me a farewell hello-kitty pillow as she knew how I love cats so much. It makes me think how all of us have the same feelings for each other!

For the last two years, I've learnt how important good environment is. You don't need a big paycheck, a luxurious desk/ workplace/ position. You just need supportive, sincerely kind, honest, religious members with good sense of humor in your team. You can create and maintain that kind of team by openly and periodically discuss it with them. Tell them how happy you are working with them and how drama doesn't worth it. Be professional when it comes to work-matters. Arrange some outing on the weekends or in the holidays with them. It sounds boring, but it would actually make your team more solid and your daily work would grasp the enjoyable outing feeling you've had. Every task would be easier with the members contribution. We successfully managed to organize two annual spelling bee competition in 2013 & 2014 and a reading competition in 2014.

For me, I would continue to keep in touch with them by phone and even join their weekend getawat sometime. :)