(photo taken last July 23, when i read for the Senior Kinder Giraffes. most of the kids in that amazing class were my Junior Kinder Beavers last year! :) reading for their Storytime was my Nth goodbye to Explo as my 3-week subbing for Maan ended.)

NEVER SHAKING OFF THE ‘T.’

i’m having an identity crisis of some sort. when new acquaintances ask me the what-are-you-what-do-you-do question, i automatically, proudly say “i’m a teacher!” 

and then comes the “really, that’s great! where do you teach?” part… and, well, that’s the thing.

i’m not working for a school right now (*), and while i know that classroom walls and a year’s curriculum do not make a teacher, i truly miss having a set of kids i can call my own. there is something invigorating about being a momma hen (or a momma Koala, or a momma Beaver) to a group of young children and seeing how they grow in the span of 10 months.

still, i’m comforted by the knowledge that this transition period won’t be for long, and that i’ll have kiddiekiddos to take care of again in God’s time. and i’m still T. Jojie: when i work with my weekly tutees, when i get all excited about teaching strategies i find online, when i see opportunities for constant learning everyday.

‘coz really, teachers are just students who love learning so much that they decided to make a living out of it. :)

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(* instead, i’m helping The Boyfriend with his photography/videography business, and doing freelance writing too. tiring, but fulfilling in a new way!)