I want to be an English teacher, but to be honest, I have not yet decided whether to be an English teacher and work at high school. It is only recently that I started wanting to be an English teacher after I had two unforgettable experiences.
When I was a high school student, I liked English and studied hard at that time. But it is not because I enjoyed studying English but I thought English is important to live a good life and also I thought English skill was useful to get work. Therefore, at those days I regarded English as a tool to succeed. But when I was a high school student, I got one of the great experiences. One of my friends started going to an English conversation school after school, and I felt so envious and somehow I decided to visit the school where my friend went. After one week, I went to the same English conversation school, and took one lesson for free. During the lesson I was so nervous and also I could not speak anything I wanted to say in English. So, after the class finished, I felt so embarrassed and disappointed so that I decided to enter the school. At the school, I met a nice teacher from American. He was always smiling, funny and kind to all students. When I started speaking in English with him and other students in his class, I was always embarrassed and disappointed because my way of speaking English is like a child. Naturally, I could tell few things, but he always tried making his class funny and student happy. Then I was encouraged and started wanting to speak up more and more in his class and to be aggressive in learning English.
Moreover, I have the other experience a half year ago, I started working at a cram school because I wanted to know teachers’ feelings and also many friends were working at the crime school. In spite of such an ambiguous motive, I have started enjoying teaching high-school students English gradually and I found working as a teacher very interesting and worthwhile. I was so tired often that I wanted to quit the job many times because I thought students took it for granted that a teacher would do his or her best and spent much time for students than themselves, even if students didn’t do their best. But on Valentine’s Day one of my students gave me chocolates to express gratitude. And then another student told me with a smile that she got a better score in an English test with a smile. When I met the situation like those, I thought a teachers’ job was not only hard but also touching and worthwhile.
Therefore, I was fascinated with English and teaching job thorough such experiences.
