Live With The Job You Enjoy

Seriously, I considered myself a very lucky person. Usually I do not ask a lot, and little things already gave me lots of pleasure. I hate to complicate things and I like to keep thing as simple as possible. I’m not incredible, and I do tend to make a lot of mistakes along the way. But, I guessed for now, something pushes me into the direction that I really would love and give lots of pleasure doing so. Can you believe, I’m a teacher now. Not the typical teacher with qualify certificate to teach proper syllabus, but teacher who is there for the student. Not a counsellor, I’m not that great yet. I’m helping my student to converse in English. All the students I taught were amazing. They have the capabilities to converse but they are pretty intimidated by native speaker. I totally understood the feeling because when I learn French, I always felt like the teacher is giving me the look that I’m not trying hard enough. So, I always encourage them to speak even though it is wrong or hard. Try to explain it in your own term. Whether it is in the correct grammar or even in the correct way to say it. As long as you speak, I understood, the communication to deliver the message is done. That is the priority for my point of view. I didn’t teach very long. In fact, I only did for a few private lesson. But the most I enjoy, was teaching children. My first young student was 10 years old. He is my boss’s son. He already can converse very well in English, but I’m so glad that he likes my class and looking forward for the class. I always try to make the class as fun as possible and I guess, that is why he loves it. But that is not the end story. Only just this Tuesday, I went to teach in primary school for the after curriculum. There were 8 students for my first class. They are in the age of 11-12 years old. I couldn’t believe myself, just when the class end, they came to me and said they love my class so much and looking forward for the next already. I can’t tell you how much their words mean to me. Just the simple happy feedback from the kids, gave me so much motivation to continue. For my second class on the same day, my students are all girls. But they are older. Somehow, teenager is a little bit harder for me to find common ground, especially when I see there are 2 groups of students with different interest. This is a big challenge for me and I’m trying to find a way to make sure they will be looking forward to my class.