FAVORITONG MAESTRA

 

My favorite teacher was my 3^rd year high school adviser. She is considered as the strict and terror teacher in the entire school. That´s why I feel intimidated when I found out that she was my adviser. When I met her at the orientation, honestly I´m so shaky because aside of her strong appearance to us, I also have a phobia to the teachers. When the class started, I´m so nervous to attend the class. Of course I have no choice to face my fear and attend the class. By the way she was teaching Chemistry. While she was teaching us, I conclude that the hearsay about her of being strict was true. She wanted that everyone were participated. She was calling us one by one. And she have a special skill wherein she can saw who were noisy even she was writing on the board. Then she told us that she was not an ordinary human being because she was a witch. And of course we´re just simply laugh on what she said. On that scenario I found out that she have a funny side. She always relate our topic on our daily lives. That´s why we can understand it well and her discussion was not boring. We were always attentive everytime that she was inside of the classroom. 

 

Time passes by, I know her much better an I saw her true colours. I noticed how passionate she was on teaching. I realized that she wasn´t a terror teacher, she was just a disciplinarian. She acted as our second mom. that´s why we cannot called her Ma´am instead, we called her Nanay. We all realized that she was strict because she just wanted us to finish our study and to become successful in the near future. I can say that because I witness how she exerted so much effort on inspiring , supporting and giving advices to us. Ther was a scenario wherein one of my classmates was decided to stop on studying because his parents were cannot longer support him. But she not allowing my classmate to drop out. She went to the house of my classmate and talked with his mom and nanay offered a deal.

Nanay offered that she was the one who supports the learning of my classmate. She was the one who gave the everyday allowance of him and the only thing that she have to do was to attend our everyday class and comply all the requirements needed and of course to pass all the subjects that we have. And that thing makes me more inspired to her. 

The only thing that she hated the most on her students was being absent in our class. That´s why she have phone calls to the parents every time that their son or daughters were absent. And there was my classmate who attended our class alternately. He was not attended our class because he didn´t have a bag. So nanay told him to attend the class on the next day so that he can choose what kind of bag that he wants. We thought that nanay was just kidding but we were definitely wrong because she brought three bags. Then my classmate chooses among those three and nanay told him that there´s no reason to be absent.

But nanay and I were not so close. We became close when the school year ended when I receive an award. She been talked to me and greet me that I made a great job she also told me that I have to prepare for the next school year. She told me that I have to become one of the awardee next year. Even I am already 4^th year high school she still evaluated me. Every quarter I have to show her my grades and she always told me that it was not yet enough. I still have to make it higher and higher ´till I reach the top. And I really thank God because I made it, I saw how much proud was Nanay Sol to me. And when I´m on my way going to the stage, she called me and give me two thumbs up and told me ¨ very good nak ¨. I cried when she hugged me after I received my award. Because I felt how much she was proud of me and appreciated my achievements. Greeting and appreciation of Nanay Sol was not the only thing that makes me cry but also the feeling that she was much proud of me than my mom was. Since my mom was always neglecting me, I become more attached to Nanay Sol until now. Thatś why everytime I had problems and I losing hope, I always went to her for an advice. If I am having a free time I always visited her. She makes me more inspired when she told me that we will become co-teacher for five years before she retired. It was pretty obvious that she was the reason why I want to become a teacher someday. She was not just my teacher but also she was my ¨ TEACHER NANAY ¨.