I'm a Teacher! >.<

"Tuhan tahu, tapi menunggu"
(Leo Tolstoy)

Really, be careful with what you do, and with what you say
Because, karma does exist! Huahahaha >:D

My mother is a teacher, and i always tell her that i never want to be a teacher, or lecturer. I think those two profession require really high competence and patience. Well, it happens that i don't really have the 2nd requirement.

Moreover, i don't want to be a teacher because i'm afraid of karma hehehehe. Really, i was a bad student. I was always being so mean to the young, new teachers. Together with my friends, i teased them, and really intended to piss them off. I thought it was fun. I talked a lot during the lesson, played card, took pictures, ate, and slept. I really did, i've told you i was a bad student :p

(Me in highschool. This picture is taken during lesson and i was half- sleeping)

Since i believe in karma, i don't want to be a teacher. I don't want to meet a student like me. It would be a nightmare >.<

But through ESD Program, life brought me into Beijing no.9 High School and made me a teacher! I mean, how funny is that?? I was terrified that i would meet "another version of me" here. Being a teacher is challenging. But you know what? i like it. I have to teach 4 classes of 1st Grade High School students (aged between 15-16 years old) per week. This is my schedule:

Friday, 10.15- 11.00 Class I-1
Friday, 11.10- 11.55 Class I-5
Friday, 13.30- 14.15 Class I-10
Friday, 14.25- 15.10 Class I-9
(in average, each class has 52 students)

(One of my class. I finished the lesson too early so i took my time to have some fun ;p)

I have to teach them Sustainable Development, which is something pretty new and hard for their age. I have to do it in English, which is not their, nor my, native language. That's the 1st challenge. The 2nd challenge is that i'm a foreign teacher, i don't really understand their language, and they know that i don't have any authority to give them score. The 3rd challenge is that, i'm a petite girl with small voice, they thought i was 18 *sigh.

So, i try to be their friend. I love it, so do they (well, hope so... >.<)

There's a lot of thing that you can learn from being a teacher. I can tell you some of it:

1. Punctuality. It's a shame here if the teacher come late. So i train my self to be in the class 5 minutes before the lesson (it's hard... late is almost my habit wkwk).
   
2. Preparation. It's quite challenging to make them interested on what you're explaining, so you have to make sure that you design an interactive class, prepare a good presentation, translate some difficult words for them, etc.
   
3. Creativity. They will get bored with you as the time goes by. So, you have to prepare different strategies each week to maintain their interest in the topic.
   
4. Flexibility. I just realize that each class has different personality, habit and culture. I have to treat them differently in each class. Well, duh.
   
5. Patience. I don't have to explain more about this.
   

Actually, i find out that i learn more things from the students than they do from me. It's actually me who have 4 lessons to learn each week. They are my teachers. They make me think and evaluate my self every time. They push me to develop my self, to give better lesson each week, to be as creative as i can, to be tough and determined, and so on. I'm sure i will still learn a lot of things from them.

So, i love to be a teacher. I learn a lot from this experience. It's sometimes frustrating and tiring, but this job pulls me out of comfort zone, and i like it. I feel it because of my wonderful students. Some of them are really sweet, friendly and clever, some of them act like me when i was in their age XD. I will tell you about them in another post.

At last, be nice to your teachers and lecturers. Don't make any mess with them. You don't know what will happen to you in the future. Huahahahaha >:D

(Me and Beijing no.9 Middle School. You might not see it clearly, but that's me)