Remember your Why
Remember your Why photograph by Deborah Martel Rogers, Harris' TOSA, BCSD May, 2022 I still remember my first year as a full-time teacher. I did not have my own car yet and walked to the bus stop early in the morning while carrying my red briefcase, which I so proudly had saved for with the money I had made during my weekly tutoring sessions all over the city. The city where I worked and lived back then, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is actually on an island, and that made me see the ocean from wherever I looked. That first day was somewhat magical. I even had the impression that everyone was looking at my shiny red laced shoes while thinking to themselves that I was obviously a teacher. When I got to the bus line, several ladies asked me to please go ahead of them, since they were not in a hurry, and I was obviously busy. I proceeded to thank them right before paying for my ticket and sitting all the way to the back....