Beyond Classroom Doors

  School away from School             I started teaching online in 2010 to Korean students. New to the technology of remote teaching I was ushered into a significant teaching and learning experience. Using Skype I facilitated teaching English to my Korean students; share my lessons and activities and video lectures through a learning management system. I made friends, because of that, and was introduced to their culture, learned how to prepare kimchee from a retired lady student. I was not introduced to Kdrama then, though.             Ten years after, I am teaching online again. Cainta Catholic College, in its quest for excellence and pursue its mission to provide catholic education, made schooling still available for our students. The COVID-19 pandemic truly complicated everyone’s life. It changed the way we live and work. And schools were not spared. My school, CCC, ...

       T hough there are more that drive me, like ambition and goals, I think I have to admit that I am vain. I am distracted by my un dyed gray hair, or wearing inappropriate mix-matched attire. Many times I can’t tell if I’m conceited or insecure. W hen I was young (soo long ago), I love looking at striking, glittering, shimmering things. I’m always taken by beauty. I saw all nature is a performance of art. Blame my mother who loved to dress me up. l remember wearing something that half my family hated, but I saw the flairs and colors in it. So I wore it! Like no one cares.           Shopping for clothes was my super power. I go for timeless style whether from branded ones, from the tiangge, to ukay ukay. I control my style. It is not what’s in, but what looks good on me. After all, it’s all about how you wear it.           At 65, I still worry about what to wear. How I look. I look at myself in the mirr...