The beginning

When i was a teenager i thought i wanted to be a mechanics ... you know the typical tom boy ... and as a means to full fill my dreams as well as my father's –of becoming a doctor- I joined faculty of engineering biomedical department.
As a department among other departments we were mocked for being  somewhere between a doctor and an engineer. As years went by … my faculty experience was a mixture of fun and work … I enjoyed my five years tremendously  … I  made good friends and graduated with a "good" grade and "excellence" project.
I then worked in the R&D department of the CASBEC center of advanced systems and biomedical engineering consultations … at the faculty of engineering…. Doing WHAT … I was an ICDL INSTRUCTOR ..... clue #1 !!!!
I remember the doctor in charge saying to me "I don't know how to read you … but it seems you don't actually know what you want yet"   … this was 13 years ago … a very insightful man i have to say.
and days went buy with me accomplishing nothing as an engineer but always excel in whatever i do even if it was a PowerPoint presentation for my boss.
then the opportunity presented itself for me to apply for an e-commerce diploma for 6 months sponsored by ministry of communication and IBM. i said goodby to my job and enjoyed being a student again. and INSTRUCTOR ... clue #2!!!!

Then came the major life altering experience ... MARRIAGE ! followed by getting PREGNANT ... but in Triplets . i stayed home doing absolutely nothing -other than managing my little school of three -for 2 and a half years and on the verge of madness i got an offer to teach in a new school where my kids would join nursery class.

i should feel happy by now .. since my whole career circulated around teaching as a profession... but yet it did not hit me right away.
 
For four years i did the job... as good as i could with no proper training just driven by my personal instinct to excel in what i do.

Then it finally hit me i needed to change the school in a quest to search for my professional values.

As soon as i started applying for teaching jobs in couple of schools ... going through personal interviews and demos ... i heard praise that i was a teacher by nature ... i got accepted and began my teaching career from the very beginning with an eagerness to learn.
for the first year I was willing to do extra administrative tasks to be close to my senior and absorb all her skills ... i even taught her a trick or two ;)

Then i joined the AUC teaching diploma and it has been a journey of  evolution that started with the first course.
learning about adolescence and the psychology behind all their action was the first key to a smiling understanding teacher's personality ... something i wasn't !
teaching strategies and resources were couple of keys to an empowered teacher ... and so it went ... five interesting enjoyable and challenging courses that made me more of a learner than a teacher and that made all the difference ... I became my students ...i know what they want what they like .....what they feel when they were bored ....frustrated... tired ... i even got the taste of what an A student feel when i ignore him to give a chance to those who don't know !!!
but the trick is i Knew what they needed and i Had the tool to give it to them.

so yes i was a nobody as an engineer and i became somebody as a teacher ... i was lost not knowing who i was and what i wanted and know i found myself feeling alive every time i touch a student's soul and mind.