My First Day of Teaching : A Journey to be Something from Nothing

After passing through sleepless night, I hurriedly rush out of my snugy bed at sharp 5:00 a.m. Guess What, I was all waken up before the alarm beeps.

Wondering all the time, what to wear at first day of my work. Last night, I already did my homework over Google search. Thanks to the keywords and crawlers I bumped on to number of blogs and websites providing tips on makeups and formal dresses for teachers.

Somehow I managed to finish household chores. Today I prepared two lunch boxes, one for my kindergarten going daughter and other one for me. Wow, what a lovely feeling. The agonize for identity, the desire to re-live, a wish to see shades of life were all going to be satisfy today. I were happy, excited and nervous that I may not messed up with everything. Afterall a lapse of 5 years; proper disconnection with friends, Facebook and outside World has turned me up completely into a woman with zero confidence, introvert, pessimist, sad, self-pitying, frustrated and shattered soul.

Finally I made my mind and I chose olive green long chemise paired up with same olive green leggings. Green is my favourite colour and to have the tone of positivity I went on with greeny vibes. Another reason, that it was rainy season, so I wanted to bit closer in resemblance with mother nature. Then wrapped up saffron cotton dupatta over both shoulders to get a teachers look. Wore my sandals and with my father-in-law headed towards North, the direction to the CBSE affiliated Resonance International School.

With all trembling legs, wearing silence I reached School. By the time, assembly was over. Director Sir, told me to wait inside a 6X6 cubicle. Meanwhile I was all sweating and my palms going colder-n-colder. I was blank, damn nervous and contemplating how am I going to face students ? How will I deal with Mathematics at class ? I just hope students may not come up with difficult questions..!! Storm of thaughts were all making whirlpool in my mind, and my heart it was popping as if it will come out of my body the another second.

There comes a summon from teacher in-charge, who made me to went on at class 7, to teach my subject Mathematics. You could imagine, what kinda sort of situation it would have been for a teacher, who had never seen the revised textbook of Mathematics for CBSE. Who hadn't prepared her lesson plans, and have no clues about school time-table.

Gosh!! As I was heading towards standard 7, more number of suspicious eyes were gazing at me. I can see students hoping, frisking and peeping out of every classes to get a glimpse of new Teacher. What a celebrity feeling it was !! Sigh, the moment I stepped in I heard chorus melodious voice, "Goooood Moorn-inn-g Ma-a-dam". And I was awestruck. Begin with introduction to myself and classmates. Meanwhile I got some time to get a glace of matter inside chapter 7, Exercise 7(A) of Maths Textbook. Yay !! Feeling of victory. I had misconception that it was one of the easiest chapter of Surds. After intro to all 23 students when I began, ummm.. series of questions were shot on me by students. At very first shot, I thaught I'm dead but thank God, I manage to answer Nishant. It gave me some confidence, thereby started handling and playing with students learning techniques. Realising that mugging up surd formulaes were base of all sums, I assigned them work to by-heart the formulaes.

That was 50 minutes long period, after which I got to handle class 6th, 8th and 9th. At the end of the day, I realised that 7th was the most disciplined class of that school. I was all smiling and contented. A day well spent.

Time passed by, and I worked vehemently and very dedicatedly. In due course of time, I became the class teacher of standard 7th. Moreover, now I was teaching subject Science due to unavailability of Science teacher. At the end of session, my school has rewarded me with the best teacher award. And arranged a media felicitation of Hindi Newspaper team Dainik Bhaskar and Dainik Jagran to felicitate me and Palak for having an article published in International Journal of Scientific Research and Publications on Environmental Science.

Truly, this made me complete. Honoured me, and shown me the path to work for the students and improvisation of Education system. Indeed, Director Mr.Vinay Kumar and Resonance International School has given me the 1st break. I have now established an Identity as School Teacher. This is me Aditi Bhushan.