Being shy is not easy, you can lose opportunities and is a lot more harder to make friends. You see I have been shy for as long as I can remember, though I did have a little bit of confidence as I could stand up for myself and have fun outside with my friends. But since I moved to Ayr it had shattered the last of my confidence. I found it harder to start or get involved in conversations and it had taken me months to make friends, Going to secondary school had only made things worse, I started getting picked on for my natural hair colour, my weight and my shyness. It never helped when I started walking around the school in S5 alone because I felt like I was invisible in the group of friends I was hanging about with no one around the school corridors, also considering my home problems had gotten worse. Which has only made me hold back and not just go for it and be this confident person that I want to be. If I was not shy I would have progressed in childcare, but I don't regret the courses I went in after that like Step into Learning where it had helped me with my confidence. I am quiet, that is who I am, I wish in the future I can push myself to be confident. In a way what I am saying is don't let things hold you back, not even your shyness or the fear that college is going to be the same as school, because it's not really and for me college was better than school.
Thanks for sharing that Melissa, I am glad that college life is proving to be better than school. I hope that you do progress into childcare because you have a kind & supportive nature that children could only benefit from being around. You should look into that option for next year. Applications and interviews are happening now. Elaine
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