You remember the rhyme , oranges and lemons ? Well I can't remember it and that's not the whole point . I have been having these oranges and lemons kinda feeling for some time now . Do I need help ? Yea and No . Now if I were to tell you what is it that has been bothering me all this while, ................ before I forget oranges and lemons go very well in your salads and cooking . Okay , you see I have been invited to attend a reunion with my primary school friends and mind you , not just any friends . We have not seen each other for over thirty years . Don't ask me where the years have all flown by !!!
Thing is, you see, I am a big coward . Yup I say it proudly . Not because of anything else but only one reason that I HATE DRIVING ! You see I can't get the gist of driving , and coming home at night alone on a very lonely highway is way too heavy for me. Because of this, that is why it has been 'yes' and 'no' kinda feeling . So a few of my friends have been asking me why and ...................hey I just got an ang pow !!! Okay back to where I was, but I have not said anything to them about how I feel and yes my situation is just a very lame excuse. I am not ashamed anyway or anymore cos there dozens who probably feel like I do . So now you know the reason why I switched jobs ................... to drive as little as possible and to arrive home early . Hey , before I go I am a good driver , it's just that .............................
So, with all of the oranges and lemons that I have been feeling now, I would say that I feel better now , and too bad if I am not going to make it . There's always the phone , face book , email to stay connected with each other and with that I am a happy curry nanas kinda girl . I will hold my head up high and I will not let this little , simple thing thing bother me .
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Thought Never Crossed My MInd
I never thought that I would be a teacher . I am not an ambitious person , I did fairly okay in school . I have had failures along the way but I seem to resurfaced from the bottomless pit and I went on . I was never appraised for anything I did or have done in school . My teachers never paid any attention to me or maybe they thought that I was a waste of time and not worth the time . I don't know and i never asked or even tried to find out either .
I remembered when my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I left school , I could not give her an answer . My ambition, went from a policewoman , fire fighter , etc, etc ,etc but I never thought that I would teach and be a teacher . Even when I left school , I was uncertain of what was to become of me . One thing is for sure , I enjoyed art in school very much . I did quite well in this area . So it was decided then that I was to enroll for a Graphic Design course .
Now , at this stage, I had no idea what is / was Graphic Design . I just went head on with it . As I began my journey in college , it got tougher and tougher . No one said it was easy . First year went on okay till I reached the third year and finally , it was time to graduate . well , it was nothing to shout about my graduation . All I knew was ,that I had to attend the ceremony and receive my diploma . I was excited however , I felt deep down in my heart that "this " was not my calling . Something is missing ( before graduation , I was working in a kindy ). Even when I worked in an office , it was not the same . I hated working in an office . It was no fun at all . Okay , okay working in an office was not suppose to be fun right ? Wrong !!! That was what I thought . For six months I was beside myself , trying to .... just shout or do something just so I could "get out" but I just didn't know how to .
I decided to quit . I ran like hell away from the office job . I went back to teach . It was fun and I was smiling again . I never forgot my mum . She did not say or do anything ..... she cried when I told her that I wanted to be a teacher . As upset as she was , she let me be . I went every single day to work and continued working in the kindy for the next thirteen years and today she says proudly to me that her wish was for one of us to be a teacher . She understood why I had to do it . I did for me to be happy and she has seen what I have accomplised . Thanks mum and dad .
I remembered when my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I left school , I could not give her an answer . My ambition, went from a policewoman , fire fighter , etc, etc ,etc but I never thought that I would teach and be a teacher . Even when I left school , I was uncertain of what was to become of me . One thing is for sure , I enjoyed art in school very much . I did quite well in this area . So it was decided then that I was to enroll for a Graphic Design course .
Now , at this stage, I had no idea what is / was Graphic Design . I just went head on with it . As I began my journey in college , it got tougher and tougher . No one said it was easy . First year went on okay till I reached the third year and finally , it was time to graduate . well , it was nothing to shout about my graduation . All I knew was ,that I had to attend the ceremony and receive my diploma . I was excited however , I felt deep down in my heart that "this " was not my calling . Something is missing ( before graduation , I was working in a kindy ). Even when I worked in an office , it was not the same . I hated working in an office . It was no fun at all . Okay , okay working in an office was not suppose to be fun right ? Wrong !!! That was what I thought . For six months I was beside myself , trying to .... just shout or do something just so I could "get out" but I just didn't know how to .
I decided to quit . I ran like hell away from the office job . I went back to teach . It was fun and I was smiling again . I never forgot my mum . She did not say or do anything ..... she cried when I told her that I wanted to be a teacher . As upset as she was , she let me be . I went every single day to work and continued working in the kindy for the next thirteen years and today she says proudly to me that her wish was for one of us to be a teacher . She understood why I had to do it . I did for me to be happy and she has seen what I have accomplised . Thanks mum and dad .
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