beti's blog

PART I

I've never thought that I'd step on the dark side of the Force xP . It was never my intention to become a teacher, even as a child playing in 'school' I was always a student. When I was in Junior High I thought of becoming doctor, but this image vanished as I decided that I don't want to be responsible for other people's lives, I guess I chickened out and went into, what I thought at that time, safer direction...I decided to become a lawyer. Here is where my very onerous 'phobia' emerged - the fear of delivering speeches, or taking in public, generally. So, I figured that I won't have a brilliant career in this field and I abandoned this idea. Soon, the time when I had to apply to University came and I had no clue what to choose. I decided to apply to Academy of Economics, and till this day I'm grateful to them for declining my application. Thanks to this I'm a student of Adam Mickiewicz's University and currently doing my major in Political Science, which is not as fascinating as I thought it would be, but I think that this is a good place for me. You'd probably ask how I end up in TTC? ... Well, I was bored! :] During my first year at Uni I had a lot of free time, my grams never wanted me to work, just to focus on my studies... so I did how I was told... or I pretend to do it :P Nevertheless, after the first year I thought why not to start something else and English studies seemed like the right choice. I didn't get into IFA so I went to TTC ... and I'm here till this day, surprisingly. I have to mention that I didn't know what I was getting myself into not until after I started TTC. Suddenly my other studies became busier (I was hoping that it will change till now but we still have a hell here) and TTC hmm let's just say that after my first methodology classes I knew it's going to be tough for me to survive here...

Part II

With my fear of talking in public and taking responsibility for others I think that becoming a teacher is the worst choice of all (let alone the money issue). I was dreading teaching practice since I got to know about them. I was totally scared of going to my old High School and conduct a lesson, but it turned out to be fun...if teaching can be fun that is :P. The worst moment turned out to be the one where I had to enter the teachers' room packed with all my professors. My English teacher asked me three times before I finally gave in and crossed the line dividing students' world from the dark side. Teaching in HS was fine. I liked it, because people more or less knew that English is something that will be useful for them in the future and they wanted to learn. When I went to Junior High I was a little more confident...because it is a school to which my brother attends and where I know many kids, who I knew would be thrilled to have me teaching them (speaking of modesty :P). The only problem was that the main foreign language there is German. And although my rapport with student was great, the lack of eagerness to learn English was devastating. I also taught in Primary School, in the same building, which was completely different, maybe because the English there was the main language or maybe because little kids want to learn and the process of teaching them is much more fun than in JH :) I was shocked about the fact that some children in the first grade knew more than those in Junior High. Teaching them reminded me of how I was learning English and I became firmly convinced that if I was to teach English someday I'd choose Primary School.

Part III

When I heard about this assignment I immediately thought of this song, it's from my fav musical The Sound of Music (which shouldn't be a surprise to people from Group 2 ;]) it's the song from the part where the main heroine, Maria, leaves Convent and goes to Captain's house to start a job as a tutor :D

PS. I don't know how I ended up writing such a long post upon a subject I didn't really like. Anyway if you're reading this, it means that you managed to actually read all those stuff that I wrote and I'm in awe that you did it. Thx a lot :D