Log #6

Log #6

  I just finished reading a book called Girl in Translation. It is a story of a Hong Kong girl, Kimberly, who moved to the USA, but her life is not good because she was treated badly by her aunt and disbelieved by her teachers. 

  There are two scenes that I remembered the most. First, Kimberly was laughed by many kids from her junior high school because of her poor clothes where all her clothes, inclusive of bra and underwear, were made by her mother with the cloth from her mother's workplace, a clothing factory. Second, Kimberly got impossibly high grades in her exam in her ninth grade, but many teachers suspected that she might be cheating because it was her third year in the USA, and they did not believe she can do better than the native kids. Kimberly's teacher even told her that she was doing a bit too well. 

  The two situations remind me of the things happening when I was in third grade, where I got bullied by my classmates for the entire first semester. I tried to ask the teacher for help, but she just told me to ignore them and said that they were just playing with me. For the second semester, the bullies treated me even more harshly, but not like the ones pulling hair or wetting my clothes that were shown in the movie. However, the teacher did not do anything to solve it. At the time, I felt helpless as a bullied because the teacher did not stand out for me nor did she tried to address the problem or talked to the bullies. Plus, I think the correct perspective should be taught to the kids for them to learn morality and grow up treating people nicely. Therefore, I promised myself that I would become a teacher who can deal with the problems of students and have the right perspectives to teach the students and provide a friendly learning environment.