My first Job as an English teacher!

When I was 20 years old, after working in a kinder garden, I started my real job at Colombo Americano, where I first started to prove and improve my English skills...

I was at my place one rainy afternoon, when the telephone rang and I got the receiver after 2 calls they made in a row, looking for a student from Colombo Americano to start working as an English teacher, (level 5), something called my name and asked me if I was ready to take that risk, and of course it was going to be my first opportunity to start improving my language and to get more in touch with my language, the one I never liked before and that now i am in loved with...

I accepted it and went to pick up the books! I was really scared because I know how well students speak in an intermediate level and it was going to be my first time working as an English teacher... When I saw the huge books... (Teacher’s edition) I saw that everything was made for you in that book, and that the only thing I needed to do, was to follow what the book said, but still I was not sure and I started to write everything I thought was necessary for my 8 AM class. (12 students)

I started to plan my class in a very nice piece of paper, starting to do so, @ 8 PM and finishing @ 3:00 in the morning. I WAS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT I HAD DONE! But there was no way to think back, I gave them my word and I did it.

When I arrived in class I saw those huge students waiting for another best teacher, (Colombo Americano has great teachers) and I was not going to be the exception that day! I started to teach my class, and I ended teaching something really different to what I had planned for them.

They loved my class... they called more friends and the next week I had 22 students in my class and it was the very beginning of this wonderful story.

I lasted 5 years working for Colombo Americano... And still in touch with the great people I met there... Colombo Americano Ibagué.