Valentina Lauro – 13th November 2011
It’s less than a month since I am a Spanker, and this is my first blog…hoping to write in an acceptable English, I would like to tell my experience here so far. I?ve been in London since last summer, and I wanted to join the SCA 2.0. I had to do an interview with Marc. Unfortunately I had to go back to Italy due to health problems and when I came back it was too late to join the school. I tried to talk to Marc on the phone and to convince him to let me in in the school, but he confirmed it was too late. For a weekend, I thought of what to do, I felt lost. I was in a city I didn’t know and I know my limits very well though. I am a very determined and very positive person, but sometimes I need someone to hold my hand and bring me on the right path or I risk losing my way alone. So I decided to send another email to Marc, but this time I exposed my fears and myself. I thought, perhaps, he would think I?m stupid or maybe too insistent, but I want to make one last try. I wrote that email all in one go, without thinking too much, like how I?m doing right now for this blog, just writing about myself and my emotions and on the next Monday, to my surprise, I received a reply from Marc inviting me to see the school.
I learned two things from this experience: the first is that you should never give up, because opportunities in life do comes, but we must be the ones to give them a boost, and the second is that communication is always better (and I mean ALWAYS) when it comes from emotions. Sometimes it’s not easy to express our fears, our emotions and our limits, but showing ourselves honestly for what we really are is the most effective type of communication. And I think that it works for advertising, art, business and especially for human relationships.
So this wonderful adventure started. I am very pleased, very encouraged and stimulated. Everyone is very nice to me, I received a very warm welcome and I hope that also relations with the other Spankers will be always better.
As in almost every event of life, also in this experience there is a “but”, because life itself is made of opposites, of highs and lows. My “but” in this case is the language, because I often feel unable to express myself well. Sometimes my brain is full of ideas, but I cannot express those ideas as I wish because I am not so fluent in English, or I can’t understand all of what is said in the master classes, and that makes me feel a bit frustrated. But there are good days and bad days, and I will work to make the good moments everyday a bit more than the bad ones, until they become only good. I know I can improve my language, and in a few months, with hard work and willpower, I’ll be able to understand more and to express myself better. This is just the beginning, and it’s just another challenge.
Besides, what’s the fun if it’s not hard?
