I want to be an English teacher, to be honest, I have not yet decided whether to be an English teacher and work at high school yet. I started wanting to be an English teacher after I had two 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 because and also I thought English skill useful to get work. When I thought English as a tool、I got one of two 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 very much and I decided to enter the school. In the school, I met a nice teacher who is from America. 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 a few things, opposite to my way of speaking Japanese, but he always tried making his class funny and students happy. Then I was encouraged and started wanting to speak up more and more in his school and to be aggressive for English.

                            Moreover, I have the other experience a half year ago, I started working at a cram school to enjoy because I wanted to know teachers’ feeling and also many friends worked at crime school. In spite of such a ambiguous motive, I have started enjoying teaching high-school students English gradually and I found working as a teacher very interesting and worthwhile. On the other hand, I, too, felt the work made me very tired sometimes and I wanted to quit the job many times because I thought students took it for granted that teacher would do the best and spent much time for students than their selves, even if students didn’t do their best. But on a Valentine’s Day, one of my students gave me chocolates to express gratitude with a smile. And then another student told me that she got a better score in an English test with a smile. When I met the situation like those, I thought teachers’ job was not only hard but also touching and impressive.

Thus, I was fascinated with English and teaching job thorough such experiences.