ESL Teacher

I adore my job. I’ve taught English as a Second Language in four different countries, to students from at least thirty nationalities, perhaps more. Can you imagine how interesting that is? Every single day I learn new things from my students, we laugh together, sometimes cry together, and sometimes even they learn something!

I can’t imagine sitting in an office and working in front of a computer all day. As an ESL teacher I get to stand up half the day, sit down when I feel a little tired on my feet, move around a lot and feel active, a thousand times healthier than sitting in front of a computer monitor.

Without my ESL students, I wouldn’t have hilarious stories to tell my family and friends. Misunderstandings and culturally unusual ideas, and just the simple stories my students tell me and laugh about with me of what’s happening in their everyday lives, and what happens when I try to interfere in them.

From my ESL students I have learnt about every topic under the sun. I’ve had students who were engineers, chefs, doctors, teachers, lawyers, hairdressers, journalists and accountants. Every single one of my students has something unique to teach me about and I always try to find out what that is.

And when either I leave the country or my students leave, we are all sad. I make so many friends and connections through this job that enrich my life so much; life wouldn’t be the same without my ESL students.

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