A Teacher's Diary
Uploaded by hanzune on May 16, 2013
A TEACHER’S DIARY:
PARENTS ADVICE IS THE BEST!
I’m Daphne May Elson, an average girl that you always meet in the road. You might think of me as a stranger but not for my students. I am a fresh graduate from a well known university in Marawi, the so-called Mindanao State University. And today is my first day of teaching at the school that I applied. It is actually the school that my father’s love so much. The school called Butterfly Angels Sanctuary School.
The way to school is actually the peaceful time for me to think and cherish all the memories that I had. I might feel pressured because this is my first day, and the principal is there to observe me on my first lesson which by the way is tomorrow. As I see the school main entrance I suddenly remembered all the troubles I had in my college life including the death of my father. Yes, you heard it right my father died right before the day I will be receiving my diploma in my school, the Butterfly Angels Sanctuary School.
March 24 day before my graduation day, instead of preparing for my upcoming graduation celebration, here I am and my mother at the Morgue; Sobbing at the cold corpse of my father, my very beloved father. As I prefer describing him to my classmates, the very best history teacher in the world. It may sound clichéd but that is how I described my father. He loves teaching so much to the extent that he considered his students as his own children. He is suffering at some kind of disease, a disease called cancer. Despite of his illness he still pursues to teach. Up until to his last breath all he can say is that “History is not just a subject, but a world.” He also said that I should love history. Yes, you heard right. That’s the last word that he said before he leave me and my mother. You want to know the reason why? I HATE HISTORY! If my father considered history as a world, then I considered History as my enemy. In fact, I almost got a failing grade in history. My teachers keep wondering why I did not perfect that subject. Well, in fact the best history teacher in the school is my father. And as I said a while ago, HISTORY IS MY ENEMY....