One of my greatest joy as a teacher is when my former students still remember me after so many years of being away from their dear Alma Mater. It makes me proud being their teacher. Some of them are very verbal about how I made a difference in their lives. But what they don’t realize is that they also made a big difference in mine.
Last week when I went for my regular run I came up with a new idea to get in touch with my former students. You see, I used to be the adviser and moderator of our school paper. I trained students for the inter-school contest in campus journalism and I am proud to say that we always bring home awards. My students enjoyed writing as much as I do. We went through a lot putting up the school paper and the experience brought out the best in us.
It has been more than 6 years now since the last school paper that was published under my supervision. Though I still contribute an article in the paper every now and then, I still miss the familiar headache that my students caused me every time we are coming up with an issue. And just last week, out of my delirious excitement I post a Bulletin at my Friendster account to call on my former students and post a blog on my “nagging THOUGHTS. It was just a survey because I am still giving myself a reason not to go through with it because I know deep inside that it will be a big responsibility on my part. But to my surprise, I received a lot of positive responses from former students… former students whom I have not seen for a long time… former students whom I have not heard since graduation day… and students who still have the same passion for writing.
And so I came up with two blogs The Spring Online and the Tagalog version of it Ang Bukal.
These two blogs will be the online version of the school paper that we used to make years ago. The only difference is that we are now free from the school sanction which means – more freedom of press… more liberty to express their emotions… more room for tolerance, leniency and boldness – few of the things we didn’t have back then.
“One of my greatest joy as a teacher is when my former students still remember me after so many years of being away from their dear Alma Mater…”—> This is what my Grade 1 teacher often tells me whenever we have time to meet. Yes, we still see each other. She’s a retired teacher now and I am already working. It’s been 25 years since I became her student. And we’ve been friends through all these years
We used to exchange snail mails when I left the town where she was teaching. Pero noong nauso ang mobile phone, textmates na kami hahaha.
hi ma’am ruth, well well well….
hows everything! know what, last friday i was seaching on the internet about some topics when all of the sudden your blog appears on the search engine. i open your site and then i notice that it was you. i was like… ! oh men……? by the way you doing a good job (seriously). it seems that you really enjoy your new career. i know you miss teaching but i guess you’ve got a future in your new field… just keep it up……
hope you will recognized me…
I believed so…….. cheers!
sometimes it is good to challenge our self in different views of life. we have to be adventurous to meet our new path…..! its hard but, its normal and theirs nothing wrong with that. its better to keep our eyes open to all available resources….
not dwelling from the past “doesnt mean, to forget”
but to accept and to learn whats right and wrong…..
( i like this blog though )
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josephjohn@jwmarriott.com.us