Look, Ma!

I remember when I was younger, I told people I wanted to study English in college. Everyone asked me, "What for? You want to be a teacher?" I replied, "HELL NO!" I'm seven weeks away from the end of my 6th year as a teacher. These past few years, I have grumbled and whined, complained and have sworn I was done teaching! I was never coming back! But I do come back. And when I do leave this place, I will continue to come back to a classroom, where teenage minds are ready to be opened up and absorb literature and how books are a mirror to our society.

I had a student tell me today, "Miss, you get so dramatic when you read these stories." Yes, I do, because a boring book bores me and I will not read it. I have to over-exaggerate what I'm reading to enjoy it. That's the beauty of reading. I can go anywhere and do anything through reading. That's what I love about reading. Not only that, but I can see what the world was like when the writing took place.

I hope that one day, I too can create a book that people can read and over-exaggerate when they're reading to others. Nothing would please me more than to be the trigger that made a young mind or young at heart mind fill up with impossible possibilities!

I will one day. My name will be on the cover of a book. And it will be grand!

In the meantime, I will continue to enjoy teaching literature. But, don't tell anyone I said that. They'll think I like my job. I have a reputation to uphold, teehee.