dreams do come true
monday, during my driving lesson at 4, i looked at my rear view mirror before moving off, and saw "PATHLIGHT 2A", the exact same sign as i made last june holidays. missed pathlight alot, so today i hopped down for a visit. a tiring one, haha, cos half the time was spent struggling with kids, but boy have i missed the school, man. ms sharifah is right, pathlight changes you. you remember that experience forever. can't forget it even if you try to (:
so besides the truckload of reasons i have gushed about why i'm in love with pathlight, here's 2 more.
1. learning to be a pathlight teacher is not unlike learning to be a doctor. 3 adjectives: competent, compassionate, professional. returning to pathlight, being surrounded by these amazing teachers, never fails to remind me of the kind of doctor i want to be next time.
of course, they also never fail to remind me that if i should open my own clinic in future, i owe them all discounts :P
2. pathlight is a school which meets students at their level, even as it recognises the potential that they have. you're not expected to be anyone else but yourself. as a "successful factory-line product of MOE" myself, it's refreshing. to see kids as different, unique individuals, and to educate them on that premise. just because these kids are more obviously different and unique doesn't mean that other kids aren't.
remember how i laughed that my lokun teammate thought i studied at pathlight? but in a way, in a very big way, pathlight changed me more than any school, rafflesian or not, did. the school itself changed me in ways more than the sum total of the individuals there did.
Pathlight - where lives are transformed.
i guess you could say that teaching at pathlight not only enabled me to transform lives. pathlight also transformed my life (: the lessons learnt there, the mistakes made there, the relationships formed there, the decisions made there...
if i hadn't joined medical school, i really might have gone on to teach there. or be a therapist there or something. wilson (pl colleague) keeps mocking me for visiting, says that pathlight has no need for a doctor. no need for me - i'm just wasting my time and disturbing everyone. well maybe it's this medical student who needs pathlight. :)
so besides the truckload of reasons i have gushed about why i'm in love with pathlight, here's 2 more.
1. learning to be a pathlight teacher is not unlike learning to be a doctor. 3 adjectives: competent, compassionate, professional. returning to pathlight, being surrounded by these amazing teachers, never fails to remind me of the kind of doctor i want to be next time.
of course, they also never fail to remind me that if i should open my own clinic in future, i owe them all discounts :P
2. pathlight is a school which meets students at their level, even as it recognises the potential that they have. you're not expected to be anyone else but yourself. as a "successful factory-line product of MOE" myself, it's refreshing. to see kids as different, unique individuals, and to educate them on that premise. just because these kids are more obviously different and unique doesn't mean that other kids aren't.
remember how i laughed that my lokun teammate thought i studied at pathlight? but in a way, in a very big way, pathlight changed me more than any school, rafflesian or not, did. the school itself changed me in ways more than the sum total of the individuals there did.
Pathlight - where lives are transformed.
i guess you could say that teaching at pathlight not only enabled me to transform lives. pathlight also transformed my life (: the lessons learnt there, the mistakes made there, the relationships formed there, the decisions made there...
if i hadn't joined medical school, i really might have gone on to teach there. or be a therapist there or something. wilson (pl colleague) keeps mocking me for visiting, says that pathlight has no need for a doctor. no need for me - i'm just wasting my time and disturbing everyone. well maybe it's this medical student who needs pathlight. :)