The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

A humble campus

Started from last week I'm officially a...lecturer :). A temporary lecturer, to be exact. This is the place where I'm doing my job. Honestly, I've never even once thought that I'm going to do a similar job like my father. Yeah, I always consider myself as a shy woman who hates being the center of attention, allergic to stand in front of so many people who keep staring at me, listening to what I'm saying, demanding more explanations and such. But well, I guess now I know what my father meant as "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree". I can't refuse the fact that I inherited my father's knacks. My father even told me that I'm 100% his characters' copy/duplicate. Too bad he passed down his look only to my dear brother #tongue. If he passed down his look to me too, I think we would very much like twins who have 30 years age gap. #grin

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So yeah, even though I'm only a temporary lecturer (~I'm teaching medical/clinical biochemistry and English), but (surprisingly!) I'm enjoying it. When I'm standing in front of the class, I feel like no one can stop me from explaining this and that. Yep, it also means that I have to learn how to speak SLOWER. Ha~ XD! I remember some students' comments before I ended last week's class, "Mam, could you please speak slower?", "Mam, could you please drop your English when you're teaching biochemistry? We couldn't understand what you're saying", "Mam, could you please use half English and half bahasa Indonesia on your ppt slides?". #ROFL

The most challenging part is I'm teaching two different classes, one is freshmen's (S1) and another one is "alih jenjang"'s (~from D3 to S1). Hence, I have to make a various approaches to the students from those two different classes. Another challenge that my aunt told me is teaching a private university students will be completely different with teaching a tend-to-be smarter public or high-rank university students. My aunt who has been teaching for almost fourty years even said that, "UI, UGM or ITB students don't need to be taught, they are already SMART. A low-rank private university students have a below-standard brains (*not all of them, but most of them). Thus, it takes lecturer's creativity to make them understand the lecture contents". Ha~ XD! This is interesting. As interesting as the fact that a failed-to-graduate-master's-degree student like me can manage to teach a bachelor's degree students :). Cool, eh? All praises to Allah. #我加油!