Here's me appreciating the world's best teacher - my grandmother
Chill before you think I'm being biased, read through my story.................I don't know where I would be if not for those timestable you made me recite every night whether nepa brought light or not, and if I missed one I had to start all over from the beginning and how you made me have 2 textbooks for every subject.(one for school, one for you). See, Grandma would make us start preparing for the new class even before the summer classes started, so there was no time to even watch tv, you either had to read or sleep.either of the two.No tv. I used to cry back then ehn! She took it upon herself to ensure that we knew how to solve those quantitative reasoning questions (I wonder why they were so tough) and verbal reasoning. What about the essay book Grandma got me, every weekend I must write a commendable essay if not I was in big soup!
I remember those times in Primary 6 when we were just always too excited and the noise in the class used to get unbearable. "I'm taking all of you to grandma's office" Mummy Shittu would say and Pim! we would all be quiet just with that statement because we knew grandma wouldn't tolerate noise making for anything. At times, we just couldn't escape the punishment and we would have to be taken to the proprietress (grandma's) office. You would think I would be treated but Grandma would give everyone else the normal strokes of cane and when it got to my turn! Ahh! It would be like I was the only person making noise as I would get beaten triple of what I was supposed to get. "Oya say I would not make noise in class, repeat after me"....poor me, in between jumping for the strokes of cane and muffled tears "yes grandma, yes grandma, I would not make noise in class" 😂😂😂
Mehn this woman tried for me, when it was time for common entrance! Right from primary 5 I had all the types and kinds of UGO.C.UGO that was ever published (you can imagine) and every evening after normal school oh and lesson, I was required to solve those questions for her. Sometimes I would peep to see the answers at the back but grandma would always know because she marked each one by herself.
Don't think grandma was a wicked teacher oh! No way! When you misbehaved and she had given you the appropriate strokes of cane, grandma would bring out paracetamol and tell you to take it so that you wouldn't have headache out of the many tears...lol. She always had goodies for us! Like always! There was Noreos biscuits, cream crackers, okin biscuits, wafers. Name it! Grandma had it all!
I could keep on telling stories and stories that would only emphasize on the same point - My grandma was the definition of every alphabet contained in the word T.E.A.C.H.E.R
The funny thing is that every child that has come across grandma would say the same thing if not even more because this woman is selfless to the core, loving each child like he/she was her own. Even till now.
Grandma I thank you for all what you taught me right from when I was young even up till now. Was it not only last week you taught me something new again "when you realize you're wrong, make sure you try to be better next time". Grandma forgive me because these words I've written are not even 5 percent close to all the beautiful things you've done and taught me. All I'm saying is that I appreciate you ma! May God continually strengthen and uphold you ma! È pe fun wàá ma! You're a real queen!
On behalf of all the children you've ever taught personally or those that passed through your school, Children's Foundation School, I say a BIG THANK YOU! We can't repay you for all the sacrificies you've made in order to make each and every one of us what we are today and one day certainly isn't enough to appreciate you but we can promise you that we would not dissapoint you instead we would make you proud! We love you!
Happy Worlds Teachers Day!
