The First Milestone in Writing and Teaching (Part 1)

Let me take you back where it started. 

On October 30th my Mom sent me an announcement about English Anthology Book project. The theme was "The Unforgettable Time with English". I read the information then I thought "I can do this." I mean why not? The theme was fairly light, easy, and fun for me. I wrote a little about it on my Wattpad. There was required fee but it was affordable, not very expensive. However, I didn't read all the words thoroughly. I misread the deadline. I thought it was October 30th but in fact the deadline was November 30th. Mind you, at that time I was already so busy with my work duties. But then, I didn't want to miss the opportunity.

So I just tried to get it done. I was rushing a little bit due to try to make it sent before midnight. In the end, I sent my script at 11.50 pm. I wasn't sure to whom did I send it. There was just an email account without a name, but it mentioned that the project was guided by Dra. Sri Sugiastuti, M.Pd. 

I got a reply shortly after I submitted my script. It stated that I had to contact Mz.Phia regarding the follow up for this program. I reached out to Mz.Phia a few days after that day. By that time I already joined the Whatsapp Group of English Book Writing, but I saw there were only 4 people there including myself.

Long story short, I contacted Mz.Phia and she said I was the first to submit the script. I was still confused though. I thought I wouldn't make the cut because I sent it late. Turned out, I just misread the deadline! How silly I was. 😅

Couple weeks after that, Mz.Phia texted me. She offered me to be a team on English teaching program for teachers. I said yes. She said it was free and I won't be paid. I said that's okay, I'm still in no matter what. I joined the English for Teachers group chat. We discussed for another couple weeks on the curriculum, timeline, speaker, and everything. 

One day we had a committee meeting via zoom. That was where things started heating up. I wasn't expected that every member of them would be appointed as KEYNOTE SPEAKER! As moderator yes, that's doable. Some of the team might be a key note speaker, yes, I believe there are people in the team who are qualified and have more experiences than I do. But never did I expect that I will be one of the keynote speaker.

I kind of jumped in during the team meeting when we decided on the speakers. "First meeting will be Basic English Self-Introduction, who wants to be the speaker? Miss Vina?" I thought this as fast as I could. If every member on the team would ended up being a speaker, I might as well took up the first meeting. The topic was fairly basic as well. Nothing I didn't know about the topic. 

What I didn't know was HOW TO TEACH? Let me add some more so you know how stressed out I was. 

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH TO TEACHERS? 

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH TO ENGLISH TEACHERS? 

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH TO TEACHERS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO I AM 100% SURE ARE SMARTER, MORE EXPERIENCED, MORE SUCCESSFUL, AND MORE ACCOMPLISHED THAN ME? 

SOME OF THEM I AM SURE WERE SENIOR TEACHERS, A WELL-KNOWN AND RESPECTED TEACHERS WITH MASTER DEGREE, CERTIFIED, AND MORE. 

WHO AM I DARE ENOUGH TO DO THIS?😓

_to be continued_

PS: Please don't be a silent reader. Any of your comments will be highly appreciated. Thank you. 

💖Vina