Inspiration

Today in class I had to do a project which I had worked on over the break. I had to read a short story and then come up with 10 to 15 questions to ask my group relating to the story, they had to be questions that make them think and they are not yes or no questions either. When I came up with the questions, I was to write them down and type them out to hand out to each students in my group. Then I had to lead a seminar for my group about the story. It's funny how life work. The story is called "Am I Blue? Coming out of Silence" written by Marion Bauer. It's about a boy who is being bullied and he gets a bit of help from his fairy godfather. A good LGBT short story. Anyway, the point is I enjoyed being the leader. It like teaching. I always had enjoyed any types of teaching type activities even from the time I was little. I loved playing school and teaching imaginary students. I would make actual worksheets and homeworks for my imaginary students. I would talk to them like I was a teacher and I scolded them like a teacher too. It was my favourite playtime activity. When I got a bit older, I actually took it to the next level by tutoring my two good friends and roommates at the time, I would make sheets and tutor them after school or during the bus ride home. Admittedly I was embarrassed too because I thought that people would think it was lame.

That is why I wanted to be a teacher, I had wanted to be a teacher since I was little, but my interests changed over the year and the list got longer and longer of potential career choices for me. Including Veterinarian. However teaching has never gone off that list. Going to school for General Arts and Science, which is a program for.... get this.... general education. It has a broad various of courses that I have to take to get a certificate to go into college for another program or diploma to go into university. I quickly realized science is not my thing. So I gave up my veterinarian dream quickly and decided that I will love my animals from my own home instead of an clinic. My thoughts once again came back to being a teacher again, so I felt like I wanted to teach. However that was last year. This year I transferred to GBC, and starting all over again with the GAS program (long story short, I failed two courses and could not proceed to second year and I wanted to go to school so I decided to take first year again). However I am starting to lose interests in school again, and am thinking of becoming an ECE instead of a teacher because I didn't want to go to school for the next 7 years. Today's class might have changed that once again. I feel inspired again to try and go for teaching. I like the feeling of teaching kids and helping them learn how to read or how to write a proper English sentence. Even if today's class was a group of college students it made me realize what I want to do. So as of today I want to be a teacher, but next week that could change. :-)