The Author

“THE AUTHOR”

 Lhea Mhay Balmes Aliwalas is currently enrolled as a third-year student at Tanauan Institute at Tanauan City Batangas taking Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English. She is 21 years old from Balibago, Lobo Batangas but currently living in Zone 1 Talisay Batangas. She was born and raised at Balibago, Lobo Batangas. And she came from a broken family. Her father left when she was 4 years old and for her this is the most heartbreaking memory.

In elementary she graduated at Balibago Elementary School. Secondary at Balibago, Biga National High School and Senior High at Talisay High School Senior High Department.

From a young age she has learned the value and love of education, which has led her to the profession of teaching. She believes that teaching is one of the hardest jobs in existence, but also one of the most honorable and rewarding occupations. She knows that she is up for the challenge and look forward to starting my career as an educator. This paper will serve to describe her experiences with education from past to present while shining some light on a few of the reasons I am going into the field of teaching and give examples of how I will incorporate my involvements into my future classroom.

For as long as she can remember, she has always loved helping people. As a young child and throughout grade school, her sister and her would pretend to play school over the summer. She would be the teacher and her sister would be the student and she can remember getting so excited to “grade” papers and see how she performed. With maturity and age, she loves of learning continued to grow and she tried to think of ways that she could connect with people and share my passion of teaching.

And then when college came, she realized that college life is known as one of the most memorable years of one’s life. It is entirely different from school life. College life exposes us to new experiences and things that we were not familiar with earlier. For some people, college life means enjoying life to the fullest and partying hard. While for others, it is time to get serious about their career and study thoroughly for a brighter future.

The journey through her educational history consists of mixed-up issues. The encounter that she has had at the beginning, in the course, and towards the end has shaped me and prepared for good and bad. She is the first one on her mother side family to ever attend college. So that has made it very hard for her because of the pressure that she felt.

As she draws towards her last year of high school, she starts to think about what she did to get to this point. Most of her life been characterized as an “honors kid or student. In elementary school she didn’t see herself as that kind of girl; this didn’t happen until middle school. Then came all of the honors classes with all the harder work and being distinguished from everyone else. She started wanting to challenge herself and be something more than the girl that just wanted to get by in school. She started to love the challenge and the praise and respect she received from my teachers.

But along with that respect and praise came a whole lot of stress and pressure. Honors classes turned into advanced placement classes when she came to college, and there came a whole new kind of stress that she wasn’t accustomed to. Deadlines built up and intertwined, papers, projects, exams, assignments back-to-back. It was all exhausting. Sometimes it was all too much, and all the pressure turned into crying fits and panic attacks. Her social life was minuscule and obsolete. When she didn’t get a high score in exams, they just criticize her abilities and they said that she should know better. It felt like everything was closing in too fast and it was all too much. She was being held to an expectation that she was scared that she couldn’t uphold. She felt as though her teachers expected so much out of her and she was afraid of letting them down.

Sometimes she is surprised at how she did it all without failing miserably and she’s thankful that she didn’t. Though there may be bags under her eyes to show the sleepless nights of finishing papers, study hard, review for every exam they show that she pushed through somehow. With the help and support of her friends and family she didn’t fall flat on my face.

Throughout the years she learned that with success comes sacrifice and hard work. Call her crazy if you will but she thinks it was all worth it. There may have been a lot of hard work leading up to my college year but there is still more to come — as well as some good times along the way.

Even the most successful person makes mistakes. The process of learning from life’s failures isn’t easy, but it can be a good thing for your students to experience. As a teacher, you can’t stop students from struggling, but you can help them discover important lessons while providing the encouragement to carry on. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden.

The purpose of this blog is to give inspiration to every child, students, and adult that feel unmotivated and drained in their everyday lives.