Persevere, Persevere, Persevere!!!
Last week received a sms from one of my student who had just completed her studies in Mar this year. Would like to share with you all this sms, and it goes “Cher, thx 4 supporting me as a student n showing me the route of becoming a better person. Appreciate it.. Thx”
It touches my heart to read this sms and would like to share with all of you about this student (hey, I am trying to boast but to encourage all to persevere). You may have read about her in my very earlier post, but for the benefits of all who had not read, here it goes.
She is just only about 18 years and already a mother of one and when she was in ITE during her 1st year, she was expecting her second baby and she is a single mother. Life was hard for her as her then husband was in jail and she was trying to cope with the help of her aged mother. When the school fees were for the second semester, she had no money to pay and she was very keen to continue her studies. So I help her to apply for a bursary but she need to make payment earlier, but she approach me to her to pays 1st and says that she will pay me when she gets the bursary. It was Ok with me , so I paid her school fees for her 1st. When she got her bursary, unfortunately she needs the money as the baby was already born. So she told me that she will pay me in installment when she starts working part time. I told her that I could write off the money but she insisted that as she had promised to pay me back, she will. Finally she had repaid me what she loan. Now she is hoping that her result will be good enough to get a place in poly. To her, I wished her all the best.
To all my young readers. I doubt many of you will face a situation like her. A single mother with 2 kids, an aged mother to look after, need to study full time, still need to work after school to make a living and yet able to survive through two years and will be graduating soon!!! I she can survive in such a harsh condition, I see no reason why the rest of you cannot.
If ever you need help, you can rest assured that I will be there for my students, juts as long as you are genuinely in need, whether financially, mentally or emotionally, I will offer you a listening ear, just don’t give up!!!
Not many of us are born with a silver spoon, i.e. born into a rich family, so we have not worries at all. Many of us are born into a family that will need us to work hard to survive. Unfortunately, in Singapore, no one can survive, if you just laze around and hope for things to happen. This is so especially true for my students. Out of the many students graduated in Dec, I heard of many who sighed and was discourage as they cannot progress on to Poly. If you had not put in some hard work during your 2 years of studies in ITE, then how can you expect to progress further in your studies? So, BUCK UP AND STUDY!!!
It touches my heart to read this sms and would like to share with all of you about this student (hey, I am trying to boast but to encourage all to persevere). You may have read about her in my very earlier post, but for the benefits of all who had not read, here it goes.
She is just only about 18 years and already a mother of one and when she was in ITE during her 1st year, she was expecting her second baby and she is a single mother. Life was hard for her as her then husband was in jail and she was trying to cope with the help of her aged mother. When the school fees were for the second semester, she had no money to pay and she was very keen to continue her studies. So I help her to apply for a bursary but she need to make payment earlier, but she approach me to her to pays 1st and says that she will pay me when she gets the bursary. It was Ok with me , so I paid her school fees for her 1st. When she got her bursary, unfortunately she needs the money as the baby was already born. So she told me that she will pay me in installment when she starts working part time. I told her that I could write off the money but she insisted that as she had promised to pay me back, she will. Finally she had repaid me what she loan. Now she is hoping that her result will be good enough to get a place in poly. To her, I wished her all the best.
To all my young readers. I doubt many of you will face a situation like her. A single mother with 2 kids, an aged mother to look after, need to study full time, still need to work after school to make a living and yet able to survive through two years and will be graduating soon!!! I she can survive in such a harsh condition, I see no reason why the rest of you cannot.
If ever you need help, you can rest assured that I will be there for my students, juts as long as you are genuinely in need, whether financially, mentally or emotionally, I will offer you a listening ear, just don’t give up!!!
Not many of us are born with a silver spoon, i.e. born into a rich family, so we have not worries at all. Many of us are born into a family that will need us to work hard to survive. Unfortunately, in Singapore, no one can survive, if you just laze around and hope for things to happen. This is so especially true for my students. Out of the many students graduated in Dec, I heard of many who sighed and was discourage as they cannot progress on to Poly. If you had not put in some hard work during your 2 years of studies in ITE, then how can you expect to progress further in your studies? So, BUCK UP AND STUDY!!!
posted by Sebastian Chu at 6:47 PM
