When I was looking for a job right after a week I graduated last April 2010, I had this thinking that the “hunting” would not very hard for me because I graduated cum laude. And like what my teachers advised me, I passed application letters to many school and colleges in the city. Of course, I made sure that one of those schools was my Alma matter. While waiting for calls from the schools, I was praying that my school would really hire me. To be hired by my school would be such an honour because it was the top university in our place.
The beginning of the school year was fast-approaching and I was so impatient waiting for the call from my school. I did not know why but I really wanted to get a job in spite of what the other people were saying that I should review first for my Licensure Examination. A lot of school hired me but I turn them down because my mind was set that I would teach at me Alma mater;until I signed the employment form for one school. I was then informed that the day I signed was the day the school was trying to call me but I never answered. They say they even texted me but I never received any message. I was so sad about the lost opportunity. I felt my school betrayed me,although it didn’t do anything bad to me. Probably, it was my pride saying that i was not a valuable graduate after all because if I were, my Alma Mater would not think twice to hire me immediately.
So there I was. The school year started and so was my year at the College. Really, I was culture shocked with the practices of the school. It is very different with the school I came from. The buildings are not yet that big. The school is really small. And most of the students are from municipality. “Barriotic” to put it bluntly.The only great thing, I thought, in this school was the Faculty members. They were very jolly and down to earth.
i was more shocked when i learned that i would teach Philippine Literature to criminology students .The first thought i had was Oh my God!How was i going to teach Literature appreciation with those big and stubborn guys!
I never expected that i would love this school so much. How great the surprises which were waiting for me. Each day I unfolded lots of stories of my students and i learned a lot of things. I said to myself before that I would contribute and exert a lot of effort for the improvement of the school and of my students but now I realized that what happened is the otherwise. My students contributed to my personal and professional growth.
Whenever my students tell me their personal stories, whether happy or not, i feel so glad that that they do so. I feel trusted. When they say they like me as their teacher and that they will miss me during the sembreak, i feel very appreciated. When they do simple things for me, like exerting so much effort for a simple assignment and giving me a keychain,I feel I am in a cloud nine. When they say, can they call you their “mama” or mothers, even it is a joke, I feel honoured.
Indeed my students helped me to appreciate life and myself. Their personal stories even help me look at life in a different angle and be thankful to what i have. Before, i was asking God, why did he not intervene when i was signing the employment contract so that I could still have time to wait for the employment of my Alma mater. Now, I know the answers.
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