EDUCATION
Life is a learning process. When it comes to academic for me, I find it no problem because I play for learning. I don’t hesitate to make mistakes and afterwards learn from it. I can really justify that experience is the best teacher. Since I am in the tourism industry, I had so many working experienced relating to my course. Oftentimes, I usually work in a restaurants and hotels. I have done plenty terrible mistakes such as accidentally pouring water to the customer, breaking glass, slide in the kitchen, and miscommunication with the supervisor, and worst forget to use the assign uniform. In fact, after all those mistakes I had done- I can say I am a better service provider now than before but I would still give myself a room for improvement.
I want to share this private story of mine to you Ms. Rita because you’re one of my favorite teachers ever; I am seriously sincere of that. This is the story of me and my mother and how she raised me up well from being a good teacher and a guide for me. My father died when I was still three years old, so my mother became our only source in every aspect of our life and we have been poor when it comes to financial department. In spite of being a single parent of a three children, she did not surrender in her job and at the same took care for us every moment. In the morning, she is a teacher and in the evening, she is a mother and a teacher; that’s how she overworked just for us. My aunt supposedly adopt me because she knew how difficult it is for my mother but my mother say a big NO and still continue to raise us up with pride and integrity. She has not loosened hope that one day; everything is going to be alright. Actually she is always telling me that there is only one thing that keeps her going that is me and my sisters. Surprisingly, she remarried again five years after the tragedy happened. I can describe my step father as the great savior for our family because aside from being a very patient parent, he is also kind and really cares for us. Together they taught and differentiate us what is bad and good. My mother rarely punished us physically, instead oftentimes she taught us why she was mad and taught us sorry means ‘never do it again’. We were well cared and loved. They always support us especially in academic, whenever I was participating in dance show, they were always there cheering for us. As time goes by, we are still working to improve more our lives but nevertheless, we have already accomplished something, which is to be happy together as a whole and firm family.
I have said education comes from “experience”, “parents”, and now it also comes from our teachers. I have learnt throughout this year that teachers don’t really teach everything we need to learn because some things can only be learnt by applying in the real world what you have learnt in the classroom. Reality check’ teachers can’t really convey everything they know so it is up to the learner to find and exert more efforts to go beyond what she/he is expected to make. However, education can be found everywhere; you just need to open your eyes and accept the knowledge that the environment can offer to us. In my opinion, the society should practice more in teaching young adults about open minded and awareness sensitivity.
They can steal your car, they can ruin your family, they can burn your house, but education is the only thing that can never take away from you. It is merely like your own soul that has the knowledge within you that you can use it as a tool for the challenging world out there. So to all my fellow “Almacresianz”, let’s study well and achieve our goals in life.
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