I would say, teaching is my first business. Actually, I did teach English for the first time when I was a college student at the 3rd semester (if i'm not mistaken).One day, I got the the offer from one of my senior in one of the organization in my campus. Claiming myself as a student of Intermediate level of LIA (wahahhaha) and having my heads in the clouds, I accepted the challenge. I taught 3 or 4 kids from elementary school. Unluckily, the class didn't run so well :(. I didn't know what was the cause of dismissing class. I thought it was because of my method or material. I over-expected to the kids. I insisted the kids to acknowledge the grammar things for the their basic in English. Gosh, that was the biggest mistake. They even didn't know what 'papan tulis' is in English.
However, That experience provided me 'something'. I did teach for the second time. At that time, I didn't do English. I did French which I just had learnt for 3 years. hahhaha. What a brave, right? In fact, I didnt accept it directly. My French classmate didn't confidence with his French. Considering he lives nearby my area, he granted me the opportunity. Afraid of the same time would be happened again, I did prepare the material and method so well. I did teach every time, he finished his duty. It was once in two weeks. The class ran well. It ran for about 3 or 4 months. What a improvement..At least, better than before huh.. Basically, teaching is about to share the knowledge. It is not about the one who master something only deserves a to be a teacher. I believe, even the professor of certain department is still learning something from the book, person and even his environment. Based on 'My Belief' (and of course my friend thought), Inuk and I established E-mazee.
The inception of E-mazee was first caused by our unemployment. I was looking for the job and my friend just resigned from her previous company. We thought that we have to do something valuable without costing a lot of money while we were still looking for the good job, in other word to be employed by a good company. Therefore, we decided to establish teaching business. In the middle of conception process, we had been hired by companies. My friend first got the official job and was followed by me. In the middle of our busyness of our duty, we trapped and didn't do anything related with our business. Until, we finally did something for this business thanks to the spirit of my friend for igniting the idea. We got our first students. A group of eight college students needing to be a good presenter in their final presentation, asked us to teach them. We were so excited. It was the first experience for my friend and long waited experienced for me. For me, it was a great come back. Teaching 8 persons in one time, it was An Experience and at the same time fully exhausted. Again, the same thing was happened. The class survived for only a month. Huffft..It was difficult to teach something to the students if they didnt have any desire in it.
Right now, We handle one class. This one is kind of unique thing since we teach A 18-year-old teenage girl named Bea with her mom named Teteh. I said unique because we have to teach two students with different interest in English. Then again, surprisingly, her mom provides lots of energy than her daughter. Moreover, every time we teach in the class and Bea get difficulty delivering the words or sentences, she always look at to her mother instead of asking the questions to us. Hahahah....fantastic isnt it? But, I, personally, do grateful for it and have fun with it. We are now in the 3rd month and hopefully will keep our focus to teach them with our method and surely do hope the method will develop them to be a good speaker.
Teaching is, for me, amazing experience for sharing knowledge that I have, to be acknowledged to another person. The result, it is not solely material things. I believe there's something beyond the material that I will be granted from that experience. I call it satisfaction. Business as well as teaching is related with satisfaction. Though, they have different satisfaction but they can be mixed and become the business that will not just give the material things but also deep sense of satisfaction (alah!)..
