After six month of waiting and
being a full time couch potato, I finally got hired! It was the best day of my
life, the feeling when you got the surat tawaran, and then the penempatan, then
the school you got posted to. It’s like the six month I got tired of waiting
just gone, pooff, just like that.
So chronologically, I got the
news about my pending interview result on 13th
May (after being kept as simpanan for 5 months long that is), and then I
got the penempatan news on 6th
June and then the taklimat news on 10th
June and then I went for taklimat at JPN Sabah on 13th June. So that’s one month of waiting. During the
taklimat, we (210 TESL and 38 PAI) were given our surat penempatan sekolah by
Puan Hajah Maimunah Binti Haji Suhaibul who is the Pengarah Pendidikan Sabah
one by one. Yep one by one and that’s a name I need to remember.
We were also given taklimat about
things that we need to know as a teacher, and honestly I don’t remember what
was being said. All we want to know is which school we will be posted to and
other things don’t matter. All my other close friends got Beluran and I got Nabawan!
Which is one and a half hour from my hometown so that’s a plus. My parents
always talk about me being posted to Nabawan so I guess their wish came true. I
can come home during the weekend if want to. No more flight and two hours of
journey to be back.
To all my fellow IPG mates who
have not been posted yet, don’t worry, your time will come. We’ve waited this
long, why not wait a little bit longer. To my IPG juniors, I don’t know what
your future will be like. Most probably, the same fate as us. Don’t worry, you’ll
get through it. If you got posted late, buatlah facebook group like us and in
there, saling console and support each other like we did. United we stand! It’s
all about unity guys.
Lastly, shout out to my friends
who got posted to beluran, especially you santi HAHA, baik baik saja. Rajin2
isi egtukar. Yang naik boat, berhati-hati. And to all teachers who got
pedalaman deep in the jungle, naik boat, hey at least you guys got more
allowance.
And to my first school, I hope I will
be okay there. Sk Kebu Baru Nabawan, here I come!
Teacher Lya
~xoxo
