it is just the first impression we have!

It has been two days since I have got my first impression about METU College. In these two days we had the chance of sharing our first impressions with our instructor. That is why I will not write the same things that I have said in the class but I have some other points that I want to share with you.

As far as I can see most people felt the same things about the school however there were differences between the perceptions of being a teacher in a primary school. Some of my friends, including me, has experienced that it is not that easy to be a teacher in a primary school or it is not that unfortunate to have pupils who are speaking English very well already.

I think the important thing is that this is just the first meeting and there will probably be lots of changes in our way of thinking about the college, the teachers, the pupils and the English teaching as a vocation. I think we should keep in our mind that whatever we feel about our first visit, our words in the last class were not the reflection of our first impression but the last impression as we haven’t gone to the school for a second time yet. We will go to the METU college for a second and third and forth…etc. at the end of the semester, when we are asked what is our opinion about the school, most probably we will have sentences like “at first I thought…, but in fact….”. The time will fill in the blanks.

So, make sure that it is just the first impression we have.