My First Working Experience

It's been more than a week since I started my job as a part time teacher in Kumon Asia Oceania at Taman Megah. Its my first ever working experience. I actually work five hours a day (4-9p.m) and I'm only paid RM5.50 an hour. I'M UNDERPAID! Thats what all my family members and relatives think. Oh well since its my first job and I'm more for the experience, it doesnt really bother me except for the fact that I have to stick with my old handphone till next year. I want a blackberry torch by the way...haizzz

Back to the job...I love it! It has always been my wish to work or should I say teach kids. They are adorable and since I do not have to stand in front of the class but instead have the students coming up to me to ask questions, its even better as I get to deal with them one to one. This way I get to understand my students better and therefore attend to their distinctive requirements differently. The boys are of course naughty but they make my day by sharing with me their bizarre stories of schools, friends and even their crushes, lol. The girls are more on the shy and reserved side but they will open up to you once they see how fun you can be. Other than teaching, all we ever do is mark and mark worksheets and I meant tons and tons of worksheets. After sometime I must admit you do get tired of it, but not the teaching of course.

But the best part of this job is actually seeing the joy in the student's faces when they finally understand how to solve that particular problem. Its like all your hard work of trying to explain to them paid off. I guess thats what makes a teacher job so noble and satisfying - to see and help your students succeed. This is only a small part of teaching though. I haven't meet those rebellious students which even experienced teachers chose to give up on them. But I believe inside every kid there's just that desire for attention which result in him/her acting in that way. It just takes that one special person to guide him back to the right path.

Anyway I'm in this job for three months and after that its back to accounting. I'm definitely gonna miss the students although I doubt they will miss me. XD Kids will be kids, they always prefer new things, new environment, new teachers...haha. By the way besides teaching, I'm also currently helping a friend out at refugee schools. Learned alot from there. I would say this semester break is definitely a meaningful one. Now its back to entertaining my ABC (American- born Chinese) cousins.