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Everything I want to say can be found here. That is the first part of a three-part post.
Congratulations, graduates!
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I’m to shut up first until I graduate. Until I face the real world, I’ll go first to something at peace.
Check out the performance, most noticably at 1:45 to 1:55. How did she do that?!
Haha, sorry for the lack of updates. Will be back soon. :)
Now may be the perfect time to look back and see how each step contributed to where we are now.
Yesterday, I started using my Googley eyes to look for my teachers back in preschool and gradeschool. Though unsuccessful in finding most of the only names I remember, I did still find some which were successful at her chosen career. Teacher Maila (Norada-Pantoja), as we call her back in second grade, is now a principal at another school which she (and other teachers from my gradeschool) built back in the late 90’s. It just proved how much she valued her job and even pursued it through hard times, now in a province.
TOP: Year 1994, Advanced Casa in Southernside Montessori School, with the then-Miss Maila Norada. BELOW: Grade Two, now with the married Mrs. Norada-Pantoja. (1996)
Sometimes, I think of how I would do as a teacher. Friends + tutees tell me I do it well, but then again, I won’t make make it in the shortlist given the people I know who’s eyeing teaching positions, too. (Yeah, UP made a toll on my confidence. Sort of.) So I did not even attempted to be one. I still had other plans, though. But a career in the academe I believe is one of which that has a clear direction in the future. I don’t know actually, but that’s how I see it.
Going back, it was a clear example, my teacher, how passion on things we do really make one’s life. (Well, I cannot really speak in her behalf. I never talked nor heard of her since 1996.) I, however, saw several blogs and testimonials on her from her students in that new school, which gave me the impression that she indeed was doing what she does best.
Wala lang, just an excuse to post some of my gradeschool pictures. :p Haha! (Kidding aside, I really was very happy to have seen and heard read about my past teacher. And everything I read were really good.) Also, the same thing goes for another teacher in Grades one and three: Mrs. Lourdes Rigonan. I think she’s hitting the high road, still in Southernside. Kudos!
TOP: First year in elementary, 1995. (With one of my all-time favorite teacher back then, Mrs. Lourdes Rigonan.) BOTTOM: An informal class picture taken at the school’s music room, 1997. (With Teacher Des Rigonan.)
(Click on the images to enlarge. I’m still looking for the other teachers.)
