The relationships that I currently have

I remember the first year of working at my current school. It was my first job and first real working experience. I had a hard class in grade two to start with as well. My partner teacher Kim, she was an experienced teacher and she was very patient and supportive during our three years partnership. That was meaningful to me, as she is an American teacher and she introduced the unique way of teaching that she has to me. I loved it. I still think that I was lucky to start my teaching career with her. I learned many teaching skills, ideas, philosophies from her, which has the long term influence on me. I am working with kindergarden children right now, and she is working with grade three in middle east. We still keep in touch with each other by facebook and emails. She keeps me refreshed by her  new experiences and tryouts. I told her that I enjoy working with little children, and she is positive about it and gives me a long name list of the artists that she considers would be helpful to me in my teaching. I do appreciate the relationship with her, and the friendship that we build up between us.

I have a friend for nearly twenty years. We are still very close to each other. We accompany each other to go through the difficulties in our lives and share the happy moment together too. I always feel like that friendship is something different from the family relationship. It is essential and important in my life. I do not need one hundred friends that I do not know who to talk to when I have a hard time, but I need a true friend that I know I can trust and turn to. In this relationship I learn how to treat other people and respect the other’s decision, be positive to the friends.

I married last year, and my husband is supportive for my working and studying. We have a couple of same hobbies, like watching movies and traveling. I enjoy the life together with him so far and I am looking forward to the future too.

My parents are the other relationship that I would like to address here as they are my role models for a long time. I can be myself now because they had the special attitude to me when I was a little girl. They are traditional Chinese people, but they are not the traditional Chinese parents. I feel happy, free and democratic at home. I have my rights and they respect it as well. I think that is really important for me when I grow up as an adult now.