A story from 14 years ago.
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Today, I’ll like to share another story of one of my students.
I hope this story will inspire all of you, who are studying Japanese to not give up.
Today, I was having my free supplementary class with one of my students. Suddenly, this question came out. “Sensei, will you give up teaching me?”
When I heard this, I replied, “What are you saying? Of course i won’t give you up. I see that you are trying so hard to study. No matter how many times we need to have supplementary lessons, I won’t give up teaching you”
In reality, this student of mine has a hard time memorizing her Hiragana (she’s at her lesson 10 now) and therefore has problems doing her homework. She has a bit of a bad memory ( m(_ _)m ), but I can see that she is trying her best to do well, writing 20 times of the whole Hiragana chart… I sat down with her for 2 hours to help her with her homework. After that, although I was a bit tired after teaching, I felt very happy. Because I managed to help a student.
In life, there are times where you wish to help someone and you cannot due to some reasons. Of course, it’s not every time whereby you have the means to help a person. Sometimes being a teacher, it’s not us that teach the students, it’s the students that teach us stuff. -Quote from one of the SIM lecturers.
With this, I’ll like to end this short post with this song to thank this student.
Born To Be… by Hamasaki Ayumi
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