Letter from Tesfa's Shelter: February 2024

Hello dear friends!

How are you all doing? How was the month going? We hope everything is going great. How is your family and friends doing?

We were in a semester break for the past 2 weeks. The break was given after we finished a first semester class. Before we take the 2 weeks break we had exams for almost a week. Our teachers prepared exams that include all the units and subjects that we learned so far. We take exam for every subject and practical exam for PE class. Most of our friends at school get anxious and scared when the exam date is approaching. But we give them some of the advised to be calm and to do their best.

Our father Tesfa teaches as how to be clam and ready for exam and all of us are calm during exam because we now everything that come to the exam is what we learned and study and if we can be clam we can do it. He always told us that we can do anything we want if we put our full effort on it and believed in our selves. We are not saying we all are on the same level of calmness but we practice it in our everyday activity. For example Siti (our sister) is a grade 10 student and she was very shay and become anxiousness during exam time. Even if she study hard her results was not that much last year. After discussing about her anxiety with our father he give her advice on how to overcome her anxiety and she practice it every day and now she is our role model. In our first semester rank she ranked 2 nd from her class.

However exams and some activities at school can make us anxious but we are practicing some reliving activities. From those reliving activities we practice breathing exercise, taking with our father or brothers/sisters about the thing that make us anxious. After Kim suggested us new ways of stress reliving activities we are practicing them with our father and the psychologist. Can you suggest us more anxiety reliving activities? We want to practice them and also want to share with our friends at school.

We see many children in our school suffering from anxiety during class presentation or during exam time and we try to help them to relax and to be calm when they feel anxious by sharing the things we practice to be calm. We feel happy when we share the things we know and have we our friends that needed them. We learn these good behavior from our father and from all of you our friends. You have been thought us a lot lessens from the letters you send us. you are building a positive mind on us and we want to tell you how grateful we are and we want to share what we learn from you to our friends at school as we learn sharing from all of you.

Dear friends we hope you enjoy our letter, we all love you and think about you. Stay safe and have a great month.