Just keeping research journalling

It has been three months or so since my studends and I last talked about the research projects. We have been silent for a while due to my slow progress or precisely a change of topic. We haven't done anything for our projects although the students used to be so eager to create accounts on Wikipedia and think of posting something there but I am not sure if there has been something done.

This time is the silence time as I said but it does not mean so in every sense of the word "silence". I believe what has been happening between us may say something for my thesis in the perspective of the teacher's role in L2 motivation. Silence does not mean no work, no communication, no feeling, or no acquisition (I am relating to the "silence period" in first language acquisition). Through Facebook as the major and actually sole means of communication, we are so in touch and more importantly getting a relationship stronger and stronger. Many factors as antecedents of motivation like vision, imagination, trust, hope, fantasy, ideality, and many more I believe, can be somehow achieved through our facebooking. Not intentionally do I communicate for the sake of my research but the communication has come very naturally due to the pleasure and love we have to each other. Exemplifying for this is the adoration they have to me as a superb cook and an academically successful person (as they said)though I am not that excellent and in return the admiration and love I have to them as intelligent and smart youths. Comments I have made in their postings at times add some value and trust to our relationship, which can hardly be obtained overnight.

It matters, in the perspective of motivation, that how to translate motivational factors into motivated behaviours. As a teacher, and possibly a friend of them, I believe all that has been happening in this silence time that counts.

As a researcher 2

A researcher's life of mine up till now has not happened in much boredom and hardship at all as I thought or imagined. Although the two discomforts are expected to last long, happy momments though short but has an impression even longer than the discomforts. It is weird that I ever wished the sleeping time had gone fast and the following morning had come right away so that I could fetch the computer as a means to express my happiness (on my personal blog)...

That was when I met my "lover". My heart was as if it jumped out of my chest in excitement. My fingers were trembling touching every piece of the "lover". I smiled pleasingly at the presence of the longed-for-so-long "lover". It was indeed the happiness of the person praying for the magic and the magic comes. It was now, in front of me, totally for me to enjoy and cherish, and to see a missing me in it. Thanks god for his blessing, to satisfy my hunger, my thirst, and my craving, to offset longest days of my depression and loneliness in the dark...

Here comes the warm bright sun, the loving company of a researcher's life, AN INSPIRING ARTICLE!