“I will do anything but teaching and nursing.”
I didn’t have an interest in doing either of these and yet everyone kept on suggestion that I look into these two fields. I was trying to explain this to Erma last spring when we were talking about possible occupations that I should do. She laughed really hard and when she calmed down she said, “Oh, the Lord is going to have fun with you.” It was probably because I was so determined not to do these two things that she knew that I would do them in my future at some point.
Now I am a teacher and today I have cleaned up and bandaged three hurt children. I am getting both my nursing and teaching in Bangladesh. To be perfectly honest, I love doing both of them. It is so fun to comfort a child who is hurt and take care of their boo-boo by putting a band-aid on it and giving them candy. Teaching is even more fun (and difficult). I am absolutely in love with my second grade class.
I teach them English and science every morning and I tutor and teach math in the afternoon. Tuli is my partner; she helps keep the kids from going completely insane. She is very petite for a Bengali and such a sweetheart. Both of us are creative so we probably have the best-decorated classroom here. We have gone through a couple of lunch periods just decorating our classroom with Christmas stuff.
The kids are absolutely hilarious. They are obsessed with penguins ever since they learned about them and saw March of the Penguins. I think they know more about penguins then I do now. We have studied marine and arctic animals and their favorite animal to name is the Beluga whale. It cracks me up when I hear 11 Bengali children screaming, “BA-LUUU-GA WHALE.”
There is such a challenge in teaching and I respect the people that teach for their whole career. It requires patience to deal with kids that are ADHA, slower at learning, and over emotional. My precious little Hannah falls into the first category… I don’t know what to do with her sometimes she practically bounces off the walls and hurts other kids in the process. Her cup of energy is full all the time and she is always twitching with excitement. Kerisa is my slower learner. I love her to death but the other day she read me a sentence that said, “Miss Jesus (Miss Jones) was talking and eating a snow cone.” She completely guesses words while reading that don’t make sense. I will also tell her to “try” saying a word that she has guessed and then she’ll say, “try” instead of the real word… I sigh as I explain that she should “try” saying the word rather than guessing.
Every kid has such a unique character and I could write forever about the weird things they do and also the sweet things they do. For example, Kakoli bring me half (if not all) of her snack that she gets during recess. I get at least one note everyday and during our class prayer they always thank Jesus for “Chantel teacher.”
… maybe teaching isn’t so bad.
I didn’t have an interest in doing either of these and yet everyone kept on suggestion that I look into these two fields. I was trying to explain this to Erma last spring when we were talking about possible occupations that I should do. She laughed really hard and when she calmed down she said, “Oh, the Lord is going to have fun with you.” It was probably because I was so determined not to do these two things that she knew that I would do them in my future at some point.
Now I am a teacher and today I have cleaned up and bandaged three hurt children. I am getting both my nursing and teaching in Bangladesh. To be perfectly honest, I love doing both of them. It is so fun to comfort a child who is hurt and take care of their boo-boo by putting a band-aid on it and giving them candy. Teaching is even more fun (and difficult). I am absolutely in love with my second grade class.
I teach them English and science every morning and I tutor and teach math in the afternoon. Tuli is my partner; she helps keep the kids from going completely insane. She is very petite for a Bengali and such a sweetheart. Both of us are creative so we probably have the best-decorated classroom here. We have gone through a couple of lunch periods just decorating our classroom with Christmas stuff.
The kids are absolutely hilarious. They are obsessed with penguins ever since they learned about them and saw March of the Penguins. I think they know more about penguins then I do now. We have studied marine and arctic animals and their favorite animal to name is the Beluga whale. It cracks me up when I hear 11 Bengali children screaming, “BA-LUUU-GA WHALE.”
There is such a challenge in teaching and I respect the people that teach for their whole career. It requires patience to deal with kids that are ADHA, slower at learning, and over emotional. My precious little Hannah falls into the first category… I don’t know what to do with her sometimes she practically bounces off the walls and hurts other kids in the process. Her cup of energy is full all the time and she is always twitching with excitement. Kerisa is my slower learner. I love her to death but the other day she read me a sentence that said, “Miss Jesus (Miss Jones) was talking and eating a snow cone.” She completely guesses words while reading that don’t make sense. I will also tell her to “try” saying a word that she has guessed and then she’ll say, “try” instead of the real word… I sigh as I explain that she should “try” saying the word rather than guessing.
Every kid has such a unique character and I could write forever about the weird things they do and also the sweet things they do. For example, Kakoli bring me half (if not all) of her snack that she gets during recess. I get at least one note everyday and during our class prayer they always thank Jesus for “Chantel teacher.”
… maybe teaching isn’t so bad.
I have a friend that fall in love with the idea of being a teacher while as a student missionary, after a year away she come back to Andrews and finish her degree of education, she absolutely loves it! and the funny things is that she was not open to the idea of being a teacher before her experience over seas :D I did not know what to study, but God send me around the world and did teach me a few things about myself and His plan for my future, and here I am :D I know God has great things store for you, and you get to discover them little by little :D
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