It will still take a few weeks before the semester starts but as early as now, I am already collecting things I might use to teach. With the help of the textbooks and the teaching guides, I can also plan how my lessons are going to be.
I am really excited about teaching again and I think my enthusiasm is contagious because my husband and my in-laws started collecting stuff for me too. My husband came home one day with a lot of office supplies he bought because he thinks I need those for making some teaching materials and my mother in law keeps on giving me some old toys from their basement and piles of stickers she collected from some magazines she’s subscribed to. My husband also got me the laminating machine I requested and my father in law will give me his old paper cutter.
Before settling here in Austria, I have told my husband that I doubt it if I could teach here. When he asked me why, I told him it’s because kids will be different and I am different. For sure, I won’t be like the teachers they’re used to and they won’t be like the pupils I am used to. What if they don’t like me or vice versa? I honestly still have doubts but the kind of support I am getting from my love ones gives me a huge encouragement.
It really makes me feel so happy that everybody is so supportive about me doing this job.
