I wake up a little later than usual; it is a day off, today. A book and a cup of coffee give me the perfect start of the day. It has to be a perfect start. There is a lot to do and I need to be in focus.
I will type the notes for my students and the revision questions as well. The power point and the movies won't take long. The Internet search might take longer, but it is a must. I have to be ready. I can't win if I am not ready.
I will get as much info as I can. I will find the most suitable vocabulary to use and I will arrange the most effective methods. I will try many scenarios so that the one that I will realize will be the best one. I will do my job the way it has to be done.
That's what we, all who work in this school, do. It is time consuming, it is exhausting but we do it because we believe in the power of education and we believe in the concept and the policy of the institution to which we belong.
We, the members of one big group.
I know another group whose members work as hard, if not harder.
The residents at the university hospitals. They give up their time, their health and sometime their life for the sake of their work.
They will be rich and famous doctors, some may say. Well it is not a guarantee and, even if it is, which is not true, no one can deny that all through their very long, hard, and tough journey, they helped many people, and they got nothing in return.
No one said that the price of learning should be that high.
I know the stress and the pain they have to go through, and I see that fame and wealth are not the things that help them go through all that, it is their strong belief in what they do, it is their very sharp human sense that keep them going and stop them from saying :"what the hell I will let go."
I am sure that there other people similar to these one. I only talked about what I know. I only talked about who I know, the teachers – my colleagues-, and the residents, either the ones that I worked with, or my friends who continued in the medical field.
I know that they are not any less than the ones who can stand for hours, or days in a public square.
