Being a primary school teacher

Well, well, well. Being a primary school teacher is moreeee than just being a teacher. It’s been a year plus a couple of months since i became a primary school teacher in Palembang. Most people said that being a teacher in elementary school is easy because the material is not complicated and the student is easy to manage since they are still a kid. In fact, it is easier said than done. Things that are seen are not the same as they felt. There are lots of things that i should have as a primary school teacher.  

Firstly, the simple material must be wrapped in an interesting and colorful way to catch everykids’ attention. Well, i have no problem with that since there are lots of available worksheets on the internet but sometimes the challenge relies on the limitation of time that a teacher has to prepare and a lack of adequate accommodation from the school. Secondly, as a teacher, i have to wrap the learning process as fun as possible, trying to play a song so that the kids can easily remember the material and accommodate various students’ learning styles in a meeting. It is an exhausting experience to do, yet so many memorable and valuable experiences to have. As i learn how to teach them, i learn how to be a mother. Slowly upgrading myself to nurture them in a kind way. Accompanying their growth, educating them on how to have an attitude, and advising them on the right and the good one. Next, being a primary school teacher means you have to deal with a lot of random situations that could be asked and done by the kids. Sometimes, they did trivial things but it is a part of their process to learn. Another challenge is you have to be able to do and to teach everything. It makes you be multi-talented. You can be a science teacher in the morning and a language teacher in the afternoon, and the next morning you will be an art teacher. It seems that you are gifted to know and do a lot of things and be more than your limits. To be honest, it is really intriguing and challenging, and i’m so grateful to go through this kind of situation.

Realising that a woman can be so powerful with what they have in mind and heart makes me want to upgrade myself through learning lots of new knowledge and gaining more new skills. As a primary school teacher, i trained myself how to be superrrrr patient, learnt to deal with kids, and trained to control my self-emotion while nurturing the kids. This happened along with a time in my life to grow as a mother. I used this moment to develop and train myself to become a mother my children can emulate. Being a mother is a big responsibility since i’m going to raise them in a kind and right way so that they will grow blissfully, healthily, intelligently, softly by the heart and strongly by the body.

Moreover,  it seems that this year be the most productive year ever in my life, coming with my self-improvement and my work. My expectation last year of having space and time for myself was been snatched away quickly at the beginning of this year. It turns out that my life filled out with work, additional work, orgninazation, meetings, training, and events. Lots of duties this year which test my principles and responsibilities. I feel like i’m in a dilemma because at first i think it’s really good for a foreigner like me to have such huge opportunities to know more people in a new place and gain more experiences in life, but somehow i think it takes a lot of my personal time.

However, gratefully, Allah gives the best break time for me this year. It was in October; Allah invited me to perform Umroh in Mecca, and i went to Madinah by myself. It was an unexpected thing that happened. It feels like at first i was uncertain about going, but then Allah grew a trust in my heart that i should go this year. Then i processed my passport, and after it was ready, more and more ease came to me in preparing myself to go there. Being there alone, but Allah keeps me accompanied by sending me a mom, sisters, and friends along the journey. Allah guides me through the people i met on this journey. Not to mention the easiness and fortune that Allah provides along the journey. I’m deeply grateful for everything that happened in my life this year. Allah has perfectly written down a beautiful path of my life journey until today. It feels like being grateful is not enough to describe my gratefulness to Allah. Therefore, from all the work that I’ve done and busy tasks that I had this year, Allah prepares something as a gift for my hard work and tries to redirect me to His path to become better than before. One lesson learnt this year is that Allah always prepares the best things for us, but we have to work for them and be patient about them. Imagine that I just worked in Palembang for a year plus several months, but Allah gives me thousands of fortunes, lucks, opportunities, securities, and families.

With the trials and errors that Allah gives, I believe that Allah is preparing me to be a better version of myself ahead, and at my best time, Allah will already have prepared the best destiny for my life. My job right now is getting ready to pick it up and be patient with the gracious patient.

//For my next chapter of life ahead, May Allah bless every move that i take, guide me to be a kind and loving woman, protect me and my generation from the badness, and help me when life gets tough//

The most grateful woman alive,

Faras Seruni