Proud to be...

Well, I just thought of blogging since I'm too tired watching Korean dramas and refreshing my facebook and twitter wall just to see nothing changes on the latest newsfeed that would interest me. Gosh! Just imagine how boring my life is. I wake up, teach English, rest, eat, take a shower, surf the net while waiting for the next class, then teach...teach..teach.. 

When I started with this job, I gave myself an ultimatum, yeah, six months is my longest stay on this kind of work. I hate myself for ending up as a teacher. Some of my friends would say, "nah, your not a teacher ez, you're a tutor". But then I thought, gosh, isn't tutor synonymous to teacher?? Oh well, who am I fooling? It's so hard to lie to yourself, "I am a teacher". Anyway, I'm too shy to admit before that I'm a teacher. When some of my friends and classmates in college or highschool would ask about my job, I would always answer them with "I'm an Online English Tutor for Koreans", sounds great right?Hahaha! 

Later on, as I started enjoying my job, a realization slapped me. There are times that the parents of my students would talk to me and tell me how Filipinos are good in English, how we speak the language like our own and how we manage to be like that. Before, I would take those as compliment only for myself.  There was even a time when a Korean CEO, father of one of my students, once told me that how he wished I'm his daughter so everyday he will have a great conversation in English. Wow! The feeling of hearing it was awesome! 

But one night while resting and getting ready to sleep after a day of work, a thought came to me. Those compliments were not just for me, as a matter of fact, there are other Filipinos who can speak English better than me. So I realized, I should be proud not just because I teach but because slowly Filipinos are getting known to other countries not just because we're hard working and we're trustworthy but because we are smarter than them in a way! Yes, we are getting known because of our intelligence! Who wouldn't be proud of that?

So I told myself, yes, I am a teacher and I teach foreign students for the benefit of our country's name and pride. How about you? Are you proud of what you are right now? 

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