A Rookie

His experience as a first-time school teacher, it must’ve, opened up his eyes that’s for sure!!!  Translated…

I’d, once taught at a Chinese school in Manila, the Philippines, as a Chinese instructor, I was actually, serving an alternative service term abroad, so, back then, I was fresh out of college, a few weeks ago, still in the services, waking up at six, running three-thousand meters, an active serviceman, a “rookie”, in every way.

The first time I’d walked into the office at school, everybody who was there, had been teaching for over ten years, I was assigned to the higher grades of the elementary school department, and because it’s related to the performance of graduating, the homeroom teachers of the higher grades became like the masters of everything, or, more like those hard to kill off bad guys that only show up at the very last level of the video games.

Thankfully, when I am not smiling, I’d, looked like the master bad guy, so, the first few days, I had it, easier.  But, those who’d worked as school teachers knew, that the “establishing of authority” in classroom management is, nothing more than a myth, the purpose of the existences of students, in the most part, IS to challenge the authorities, and, I’m the kind that, compromise easily, due to the demands of the world.  And, in no more than a month, my role and the students’, switched, they’d, turned into the “master bad guys”, and I, got hit hard, turned back, to my original self————a novice gamer, who’d, kept getting defeated, but kept playing the games.

And so, this would be, your experience, in teaching a class of children, and, they’d, surprised you, because, you had NO idea, how to manage a class, and yeah, during that first month you’d started, the students may be, a little timid around you, but that’s just because, they’re, testing you, to see how far you’re gonna get PUSHED, before you cracked!!!