Tomorrow is the last day of work. Everybody else will be coming back after the Holy Week except for me. I will be giving birth on the last week of June and my husband and I have decided that I will temporarily stop working to take care of our first baby.
This is the first time that I will not be employed this long. The last time I decided to quit being an IT analyst was when I decided to take my master's degree in 2005. Back then, I knew that I will have to find a teaching job sooner or later to jumpstart my career. In less than 4 months, I was given an opportunity as a substitute teacher for Toddlers Unlimited Learning Center and I later handled my own class.
As much as I would like to continue teaching, I am getting all the more excited for the arrival of our baby. I guess this stems from being around children for the last 7 years. It's always been my dream to raise a family and I would like to make things right from the start.
To all my colleagues and mentors, I owe a lot to you. Your guidance and encouragement helped me to see this job as a vocation and as a mission. You opened my eyes to the endless possibilities that can result from loving and nurturing a child. You gently but firmly pushed me to accomplish challenges that I never thought I could pull off, and you made me believe that I can make a difference in someone's life through seemingly simple yet kind and loving gestures. I have grown so much as a teacher, and I promise to pay it forward in the next batch of children who will be under my care. But for the meantime, allow me to apply what I have learned to motherhood and to my baby girl Georgia. When I come back, I might have learned something new that I could share with everyone. Until then, this is Teacher Tere, signing out.
