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Ever wondered how the experience of a teacher feels like? Those high school girls having random crushes on you? If you have never experienced any let me share it with you. This is a flashback story. After completing high school, I managed to make it to the university- most probably the first in my family excluding those who have jobs but yet seek to have degrees- I mean fresh graduate.
I felt so learned after my first year and thought I could make it being a high school teacher during the long holiday. I left the Nairobi life for the up country to go have my first job. At the age of 19, here I am attending a shoddy interview, where I couldn’t even answer the question of how much I would like to be paid. I did not even know how to market myself maybe by telling the principal that I had reached 1000 friends on Facebook and a 1000 followers on Twitter. I did however manage to secure a job, I won’t mention my salary to avoid unnecessary embarrassments 😝😝
Ever had of the saying that says it’s like leaving goats under the care of a leopard? I don’t however mean that I was a leopard. First day, no first hours, at work I could not even manage to look back at these high school who had just seen a tall teacher who they need to nickname as fast as possible. I guess they were already in this Love thing. I made being a teacher of English- don’t judge how I was teaching based on this article.
I would see pretty faces among the students. The teacher of English needed English representatives and most probably would like them being of the opposite gender. I managed to give one of the prettiest to become my representative- I would get chances to speak to her oftenly, you know. In the process she had a crush and was ready to destroy my career as a teacher.
When I was on duty she would come so close to me and that’s when I realized I was being destroyed slowly. Yes she was pretty and no man( I was just a teenager) on earth would run away from that feeling- for once I felt handsome. This representative of mine was the best in English or maybe I was marking unfairly.
Things got worse when she gave me a ball gum written “I love Wallace.” I don’t remember if I was happy or surprised but the presence of a harder heartbeat is obvious. And from then I started receiving “love notes” lust is real. I didn’t know whether to tell the principal but I decided to keep it to myself though it did not go unnoticed by the other students.
The other students knew that something was going on, but I can’t tell if it was mutual. I once gave her a love poem to read to the rest of the students so that they can revise on poetry to my disappointment she refused- she told me the poem was meant for her and there was no way she was reading that to the rest of the students. I bought that.
I remember how she would write to me that she would never leave me and she was already naming the children we’d have. My teaching was just for three months and the crush only kind of lasted the same time. The last time I checked she was telling me to send her KES 300/=She is still waiting after 2 years. I am still searching for this money.😤😤
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