Ellen Says: My whole consciousness has always been made myself aware that once a teacher will always be a teacher no matter what. And this awareness is always creeping in my whole mind despite the fact that I was away from school for, like, many years now, yet there is always that feeling within me of being such a mentor forever.
When I left the portals of an exclusive school for very elite children in Manila, I was saddened with a fact that I will surely miss the classroom teaching. Teaching such very energetic and active boys in the elementary with art consciousness and the ABC's of health and sciences was indeed such a great delight and fulfillment for me.
But when I gave birth to my son Ral, I had to give him my utmost and top priority. I had to be his security blanket. I had to be his teacher in his early years of childhood development. I had to be always with him and beside him 24/7.
Now that he has moved on as he is already in the first grade, I have this sudden surge of getting myself energized again with my longings to be back in the classroom and once again be a part of a learning institution simply because I just terribly miss the classroom ambiance and its atmosphere.
Such feeling of weariness made me decide to eventually try to go back to the classroom. And I did. And I felt so accomplished because something very good and enriching experience happened to me yesterday when I went to the International School for Children nearby my place of residence.
It was indeed a very grateful experience to have met teacher Titing, teacher Pat and teacher Sarah. I absolutely felt such a joyous feeling to be able to get to know them and had a great talk with them.
Also, I was so overjoyed in my conversation with them and I suddenly realized that I was getting a little bit overwhelmed with our talk but I knew that they were aware that I was a little bit anxious as I just really wanted to really be back in the classroom considering the fact that I was away from it for so many years now. However, during the later part of our conversation, with their amiable and welcoming dispositions and their great smiles, I was able to finally gain back my momentum.
I wanted to really be part of my usual niche of routines in the rudiments of the teaching ministry again. Well, the initial experience I had yesterday was such a very fulfilling and it was absolutely rewarding for me after many years of being away from the classroom. The talk with teacher Titing, teacher Pat and teacher Sarah was only the starting point and it was indeed very substantial. I felt great.
The next thing that I am hoping now is to be able to eventually become part of their learning institution so that I may be able share with these kids my teaching competencies once again after so many years of being away from the classroom.
A teacher is indeed a lifetime commitment and once you become part of the ministry but somewhere and somehow you leave its portals due to some sensible restraints, something in you does not die nor wither but remains and sticks in you for as long as you live, and I am sure that these days-in-and-days-out in your life without the classroom ambiance, life's gonna haunt you like a ghost until such time when you could not anymore bear its haunting and one day you will just wake up with a final decision to, once and for all, come back and take responsibility of such life commitment: the teaching ministry.
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