The Bigger Picture

Do you know that a change of lane is not necessarily out of track? There is always a bone of connection.

I was posted to an all girls secondary school as a corper for my one year service, when I got to the school and met with the vice principal, I handed my posting letter to her and one glance at it she said they would only accept me if I would agree to teach French other than that, they don’t have vacancy for any other subject related to my discipline, before I could process the whole idea of becoming a French teacher and I thought of how most students don’t take French seriously, yes I love to teach but I love to teach what I know and understand and French isn’t one of such things so I was both confused and scared. Matter of fact, what really got to me was the English and literature textbooks I brought from home hoping to teach the senior classes{lols}.

“I was standing all tall and confident so well they didn’t see how nervous i was”

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I snapped backed to reality when I heard “corper are you going to teach the French or not? French isn’t even on the list of things I want to learn or do…I murmured however, I heard myself say “yes Ma I will teach the French”.

Two weeks later, I was standing in front of over 40 students introducing myself as their new French teacher teaching ‘bonjour’ and ‘ça va’ I remember laughing so hard when I got back to my office because I was looking all confident and serious and the little ones didn’t know how nervous I was standing there and teaching. I spent the past week downloading lots of French apps that could make learning French easier especially audio, they helped but not so well so I decided to take a step further.

“I know me i knew i wasn’t going to settle for less”

It’s true I was scared and confused at first, but I know me, I knew immediately I took that offer I was going to give it my best shot and I was going to go extra to be good at it. So I enrolled in a French school, I became a student in the evening and a professeur in the morning. yes! It was stressful but I managed till I finished A1[beginner’s level} and I am still going to other levels. Enrolling in a French school has made teaching French a lot easier and fun.

“Change of lane isn’t always out of track”

Imagine if I rejected the offer from the vice principal, don’t get me wrong I am not saying that there might not be better offers out there but what if learning French was a step in the right direction for me and I screwed up and realize in maybe 2 or 5years time that I should have learned French and didn’t?
Nothing is ever as it seems, most times we make up excuses for ourselves but I dare you to pay attention to the signs because most often than not it is what it seems like. When we are presented with offers unfamiliar with us we shouldn’t be in a haste to cast it aside because change of lane isn’t always out of track, it is just a different lane towards the bigger picture.
The bigger picture should always be the goal and there are different lanes in arriving there however, some lanes are less rossy than the others therefore, it is pertinent for us to first see how an offer takes us closer to the bigger picture before accepting or rejecting it….