Missionary Sisters of I C. org

Sr. Lucia Mahupe's Journey
Teaching is a special calling. It is not a job for which everyone is well-suited. Each teacher can recount numerous highs and lows in his or her teaching career. Personally, I experienced many great moments while teaching. These were days which I ended so happily and enthusiastically that I knew I had selected the right profession. On the other hand, I had days when I definitely questioned teaching as a career, days when the students seemed uninterested, too talkative, or worse, days in which a blow-up occurred and nothing got taught. Moreover, being from Africa with English as my second language, there was a language barrier. Thankfully, the average of positive days and experiences outshone the challenging times.
                                                                                                                                                                                           
To me, being a teacher is not only a choice of career, but a quality that is imprinted in my heart. I have always known I wanted to be a teacher, to follow in the footsteps of my   elementary teachers who had a tremendous influence on my life. I have always believed that although you are the best person to judge yourself, you never know the full extent of your abilities. It takes another person or an event to bring them out. Some of these events are my earliest teaching memories, the five semesters of field experiences I had at Felician College and the four months of student teaching at St. Joseph school in New Jersey, USA. Although I had a little experience with being in front of students as a novice in Epikuro Mission for pastoral experience, this didn’t help me when I started with teaching field experience. I remembered the fear I had the first semester when I was sent for field experience. I wanted to quit teaching; I was terrified to death because of my poor English.

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