It's been five months since I last updated this blog. I almost forgot how this works. My personal goal of at least one post per week is way too off. Right now, I really don't have anything particular to write.
May I just tell you some stories of the past five months? I promise it won't be that long. On second thought, please, just allow me to share this wonderful experience, among many others, that happened to me during that period.
April, that's when I received an invitation to do a presentation for a teaching post in one of our local colleges in the province. I gave it a shot with high hopes that my application will be approved. That experience was both exciting and frightening. Exciting because I believed that it could be the start of a career that I always dream of. Frightening because I wanted it to be perfect. I want that job. I really do.
Fast forward to June... I found myself in front of 22 young aspiring CPAs. My first formal class. My first batch of students. I couldn't help but smile as I remember my self during my own school days. It was 1:00 in the afternoon and for the next three hours that I stood in front of these young individuals, I still couldn't believe that I was delivering the lecture that could possibly change the course of their lives forever.
My day didn't end with that "first" three hours. It was just the beginning. There's another three hours waiting for me... The thought that for six hours each Saturday of the next four months, I will be doing this thrilled me. I have another reason to wake-up early on a Saturday.
Now I understand why there are people who fall in love with teaching so much, again and again. It's a different kind of fulfilling experience. Not only it makes you feel good, it inspires you be better than your previous best because it is not your future that's at stake but of those young minds who put their hopes in you.
For the past four months, I always pray that I have given justice to this noble profession. This is no longer about my dreams or ambitions, this is about my students' future.
I used to say that when the time comes that I will have to retire from the corporate world, I will spend the rest of my life teaching (of course, that's aside from being a husband, a father and a grandfather). But now that I have reached and experienced that dream, I think I want to do it forever.
With this experience, I learn to appreciate more the sacrifices, the pains and the patience that my previous mentors had shown me.
May I just tell you some stories of the past five months? I promise it won't be that long. On second thought, please, just allow me to share this wonderful experience, among many others, that happened to me during that period.
April, that's when I received an invitation to do a presentation for a teaching post in one of our local colleges in the province. I gave it a shot with high hopes that my application will be approved. That experience was both exciting and frightening. Exciting because I believed that it could be the start of a career that I always dream of. Frightening because I wanted it to be perfect. I want that job. I really do.
Fast forward to June... I found myself in front of 22 young aspiring CPAs. My first formal class. My first batch of students. I couldn't help but smile as I remember my self during my own school days. It was 1:00 in the afternoon and for the next three hours that I stood in front of these young individuals, I still couldn't believe that I was delivering the lecture that could possibly change the course of their lives forever.
My day didn't end with that "first" three hours. It was just the beginning. There's another three hours waiting for me... The thought that for six hours each Saturday of the next four months, I will be doing this thrilled me. I have another reason to wake-up early on a Saturday.
Now I understand why there are people who fall in love with teaching so much, again and again. It's a different kind of fulfilling experience. Not only it makes you feel good, it inspires you be better than your previous best because it is not your future that's at stake but of those young minds who put their hopes in you.
For the past four months, I always pray that I have given justice to this noble profession. This is no longer about my dreams or ambitions, this is about my students' future.
I used to say that when the time comes that I will have to retire from the corporate world, I will spend the rest of my life teaching (of course, that's aside from being a husband, a father and a grandfather). But now that I have reached and experienced that dream, I think I want to do it forever.
With this experience, I learn to appreciate more the sacrifices, the pains and the patience that my previous mentors had shown me.
To all my mentors,
...Who are worthy of more than just praise from this humble space in the world wide web, I salute you all! Thank you and may God grant you longer days of peace, happiness and wisdom.
-Your eternal student.
