Updated 2025

|| Emerging through Mist ||

Hi kim! i am pleased to hear how you value us your students. I have been learning a lot from the lessons 1-5 which i did not used last celban exam. Unfortunately, i was so frustrated with myself after i received my evaluation report…. It was hard for me to accept because i did got high marks with the other three areas tested, except for my writing which is only 6. It was a friend that i met in the bus told me about your site, to be honest as a new resident here in canada i felt helpless. I dont have any background and idea about celban , and also i have been discouraged with ielts after many attempts. I am just so glad and inspired from the stories of your students on how you touched their lives.  Im excited for the up coming lessons that i will be learning from you and at the same time feeling nervous for the exam this october. Hoping that  this time il be much ready to face the battle.   hoping for your  guidance and help kim for me to achieve my goal. G.

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🜄 Return to Self

Dear G,

You were meant to be on that bus. You were meant to meet the one who gently turned to you and said, “Try here.” Life has a quiet way of nudging us forward, even when we feel lost. Especially when we feel lost.

I read your words and felt the ache beneath them: not only frustration, but also fatigue. The fatigue of trying again. The fatigue of dreaming and not knowing if it’s safe to believe. But what struck me most was not your defeat. It was your courage to keep going anyway.

You are not alone in the sorrow of a score that didn’t reflect your whole capacity. Many have wept over a single number. But look again: you passed three out of four skills. That is not failure. That is a foundation. And with a foundation, we build. Slowly. Steadily. Strongly.

🜁 Fog to Clarity

It is true; writing asks something different of us. It does not only measure our grammar or punctuation; it asks us to reveal how we organize our thoughts, how we connect our ideas, how we express care through clarity. And that’s not easy when you’re still finding your feet in a new land.

But now, you’re no longer wandering in the dark. The evaluation report you received is not a judgment; it is a lantern. It points gently toward what still needs tending.

Let this be the moment where the fog begins to lift. You know now where your attention belongs. You know now that there are resources – yes, grammar and structure, but also presence and preparation – that can hold you.

🜃 Rooted in Enoughness

You are not starting over. You are spiraling upward with a wiser center.

The CELBAN doesn’t ask you to be perfect. It asks you to be ready. Not flawless: flexible. Not polished: present. Canadian nursing, and Canadian education, are built around growth, not shame. Around feedback, not failure.

You are already walking that path. You are learning. You are stretching. You are not a beginner; you are a becoming.

And even now, even here: you are enough.

🜂 Rekindling the Inner Fire

You wrote to me with a heart both eager and uncertain. That tension is sacred. It means something in you is stirring again. It means hope is not extinguished; it’s just waiting to be kindled.

When you walk into that exam room again in October, I pray it is not as a soldier bracing for battle… but as a nurse-in-waiting, reclaiming her readiness with grace. Let confidence be your compass, not fear. Let light be your guide, not pressure.

Because you can do this. And more importantly: you will.

🜀 Standing at Zenith

So keep showing up. Keep practicing. Not to prove yourself worthy… but to remember that you always were.

Let this journey shape not only your skills, but your soul. Let every lesson deepen your self-trust. Let every correction be an invitation… not into more doing, but into becoming.

I’m here. Quietly cheering. Always holding the space for your return.

In Spirit and in Solidarity,
Kim

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Enouragement

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