Life As A Part Time Teacher…

This time, I took a moment and just looked around, took it all in. For some reason this moment in my class was perfection to me. As the kids worked, I thought about my profession. I am currently working in Lawfirm, and I am also still taking a part time job as an English Teacher. I thought about being in high school again, and I thought about how interesting it was that I became a teacher. 

Some of the happiest moments of mine that I spent time in school. Even though I enjoyed my time with friends and teachers, I never thought that I would one day be a teacher myself. My mother would repeatedly talk about how much people enjoyed their work, but would often tell me that the pay was too low for the job at hand so no chance for me. 

I was the kind of person who really enjoyed my high school years. Friends for me were the reason  to love high school. But I did not enjoy class though, and it was often a struggle for my parents to get me to do work. I was incredibly bored! If someone would have told me that I would be a teacher one day, I would have laughed. Even in Uni I did not consider this idea. Although it was my first choice of majors, I had originally shied away from choosing this path, but I decided to give it a go anyway, and one semester in I could not get enough. I reveled in my surroundings, other literary nerds who found great pleasure in writing poetry, reading old books, and sitting around discussing contemporary fiction. It was a welcome break from the everyday life, as cliche and silly as that may sound. I was hooked.

As the next few years went by, I knew that I loved writing, but I was not sure where exactly to get started in that field. It turned out that I decided to take some time and continue working for a few companies. I liked my job and I enjoyed the atmosphere very much. I even toyed with the idea of making this my career. But no matter how much I enjoyed it, it just was not fulfilling a part of me. My love for kids was there since the beginning.

Around February 2016 I started to feel like maybe I wanted to become a teacher. I was not exactly sure where that thought came from. I did not know any high school teachers my age, and I was not sure what the road to becoming a teacher even entailed. While all this was going on, my feeling of idleness and my unhappiness with my life continued to grow. I knew one of my best friends, Jovita is an English Teacher. She asked me to join her as a part time teacher. In early March 2016 I applied for a part time English Teacher, and surprisingly a little less than a few minutes a general test I received a call from Miss Lisa The Principle informing me that I had, indeed, been accepted, and my start date was the following week if I am not mistaken. At the same time, I was very scared. With no experience AT ALL, used to hate school and stuff. Was I making a mistake? DEFINITELY NOT!

"I call my students "MY KIDS" because they're not just kids on my class list, they become a part of my heart."

I never would have guessed this for myself. I wake up everyday looking forward to meeting Saturday excited to get there, happy to see the kids, sharing something with them. Some days are harder  than others, but like I said, most days are great. When you think about simple magnitude of the possibilities involved in that, it is dizzying. I have the great opportunity to shape these little minds into something than they walked in with. I am able to share anything and everything full of language and knowledge. Aside from my current job in Law firm, my mood directly is into classroom. Each Saturday I get up in front of my kids I have the chance to positively inspire them and we each other as well. THIS IS AMAZING. I AM GRATEFUL :)

Some of my former and current students :)