Me...a Teacher :)

When I was a little girl, I used to role play as a teacher. It followed the same routine every time. I used to break a stick from our guava tree in the yard and use it as a cane. I draped myself in an old saree of my mother's. I played outside in the cement pavement of my home and used to hit the cement floor hard with my cane pretending them to be students who failed to do their home works. LOL. I swear sometimes the cane broke and splinters flew from it due to the impact of me hitting. Had the cane or the cement floor been an actual person, I would be charged for brutality!!!!

Now, years later, I got posted as a guest lecturer in a college. Never in my dream, had I thought I would become a teacher one day. I wanted to be many things while growing up... an FBI agent (due to intensive watching of real life crime programs on discovery channel), a Fashion designer (due to all the clothes I stitched for my Barbie :P), a zoo keeper (not the Indian one that throws the food into the cage without any care for the animal, but rather the American type that feed the chimpanzees with a feeding bottle and that play around the dolphin!!!!) etc. But never in my life had I thought I would be a TEACHER! Sure my mom wanted me to be a teacher and also my grandmother, who was a teacher also wanted me to follow her footsteps. But personally I was not interested to teach. Its funny how God leads you to places you never thought you will be. That is what happened to me exactly. I realized that I LOVE TEACHING!!

Even though my post is a temporary one, for that short span of time, I realized that I wanted to be a teacher for the rest of my life. Something about interacting with the students and imparting knowledge to them is a satisfying feeling. The job can never be boring for me (like those of IT people!!! Damn how do they sit staring at the computer creating programs all day long!!! That is not my field!!!).

There are a lot of things that I experienced for the first time. I am still getting used to the "teacher/Ma'am" call from students. I got my very own name board and bench (and I have decided to take the name board with me when I leave...I know your are thinking I am stealing but Its not stealing when my name is already on it!!!! DUH! :p). I realized that when we were students and we used to cheat on internal exams..the teachers saw everything but chose to be silent :O.. haha (it doesnt mean that I cheated on the exams OK!! :P). I have a new found respect and admiration for all my teachers now. I never understood the trouble they went through to teach us.

My time in the college is almost coming to an end. I will cherish the memories the students and staff gave me. They all were ONE of a kind!! Truly! I hope that I will be missed by them and that I have been successful in my task as a teacher. I know I will surely miss each and everyone of them. I thank God for giving me a wonderful opportunity to come to terms with what I wanted to become in the future. I hope I succeed in achieving the same :).