A pleasant surprise came to me out of nowhere one afternoon while I was making my way through a hallway of highschool students to get to my class. A graduating student exclaims, "Ms.! Bakit ngayon ka lang bumalik?! Wala tuloy kaming IKAW!!!" Arms stretched towards me emphasizing "ikaw".
I could only express a unknowing grin and was speechless. I didn't see it in that perspective before and was caught off guard. But truly, I felt joy that that student appreciated me for who I was. It's hard to read students most of the time, especially when you're giving them work that could possibly interfere with their social life.
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She came from my first batch of students. I met them when they were in second grade and have had them under me on intervals during their elementary and high school years. They weren't angels all the time, but I loved them. Little do they know, more than the professors in the College of Education, they were the ones who taught me how to teach.
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