The Day After A Long Break | Diary of a Teach For India Fellow | My TFI Journey | My TFI Ahmedabad experience | Building Student Leaders | Design For Change

It is always exciting and scary at the same time to go to your place of work after a long streak of holidays. I remember how nervous I felt as a kid going to school after a pretty long summer break. It was no different today except the fact that I am a teacher. As a student in school and college, I could never empathize with my teachers but now I know that teachers are after all humans and they go through the same emotions and feelings too. However, as soon as I entered the classroom and saw the smiling and energetic faces of my students, I lost all my initial apprehensions and just went with the flow. We  carried the momentum of learning so gracefully as if we were just continuing from where we left off a few moments ago. We shared personal stories with each other where each of us talked about how their holidays went and what were some of their special and happy moments during the vacation. We sang and danced to our favourite tunes and also learned many interesting things in Science and Maths. Tomorrow is National Science Olympiad and my kids have prepared really well. Today I was busy solving their doubts and helping them complete their exercise workbook. I know they are going to rock the exam tomorrow. In the last few moments of the day, I played their favourite song on request- Never Say Never by Justin Beiber. Children just love to sing along and dance on this electrifying dance song. Besides, it reinforces the positive mindset that I am trying to build in them- a strong mindset such that they believe in themselves and feel that they can achieve anything in this world- one where they never take no for an answer and keep fighting till they get what they want.
Enough of blogging, I think I should go to sleep now. :)

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