Sleepless Nights With Windows of Possibilities

Three O' Clock in the morning last night and I could barely sleep...this is bad considering I had to be up at seven to get my daughter ready for school.  Not to forget I have to work at the place where customers just demand their food without caring for having any consideration that it is busy and that we don't cook in microwaves!!!! I couldn't sleep because i'm excited...there is a new chapter of my life unfolding in front of my eyes and I feel like a little kid with a christmas gift.  Only I have seen my daughter ripping through her christmas gifts like there is no tomorrow and I instead want to open iy slowly and savor the moment.  To have this opportunity is to behold another experience life has to offer.

Teaching must come from the heart and at home I am already a teacher.  I teach my husband because he is an ESL learner.  Offering him help whenever he has school work to get done.  The best teaching however comes from teaching my daughter.  That litlle tiny person who I once had to teach that waking up in the middle of the night would not make mommy happy and which now I have to teach her about the world outside the confines of our home.  I feel extremely rewarded, for example this week when she showed me how she is a kind person in a drawing she made and my heart beated a little faster at the tought that I must be doing something right.

I know the classroom will not be the four walls of my home or my students the little girl who grew up inside of me, but I know that many students call their schools a "second home" and that the teaching profession puts us in positions of care givers.  I approach this new chapter hungry for learning, so that when the day comes for me to have my own classroom all these experiences will help me.  This program has already defined a lot about who I am and where I am going but there's still much to be said and that is only going to build itself when i'm there, in the actual classroom.  Teaching those who are not my blood but whom I owe it to, to teach them about the English language and hope to be that teacher who opens up a window of possibilities.  Just like many of my teachers were for me.