It’s very
confuse to write about that for me, because it evolves many feelings and life
stuff than you could imagine. But I will start from the beginning.
About 2
years later, my friend Leticia told me she was going to do some English course
in the neighbor city, the school Wizard. I didn’t even know there was an
English School there or any like this. So she started every Saturday in the
morning going there and every time I could see her, she started telling me
things that happened in the class. It was very fun and funny, I laughed with
her. So she proposed me the follow: “Why don’t you come in the class with me?”
but it was almost 2 months she started the classes, but I thought about it. I
spoke to my mother and my father, not about money, but about a decision of
life, because I’m very a complicated person to decisions. But I still didn’t
know I was going to make the decision of my life. I wanted to go in, but I
decided no. So I spoke to her again and she told me the good opportunities it
could open to me. So I decided to go a day (2nd August 2010). I went to know about allowance and
stuffs, but the secretary told me to watch a class with my friend only to see
how it was and If I would like it, then I just sit down and paid attention. So I
decided to go in, because I liked the class but I would have to make some
reposition class to reach the lesson they were that I missed in 2 months. The
woman that gave me the reposition class, told me I was the best first student
to do reposition class with her, because I was very good. I remember she
telling about me to the teacher: “Jonas, you have no idea. She is very, very
good! A great student, she already knows some things.” And I remember getting
so much happy.
After some
months and during, some friends of the class came on and then came out, and I
learned a lot. I mean learned, yes. My teacher was so experienced, he lived in
England for 2 years, he is the owner of
Wizard, he knows many many many information about abroad that you couldn’t
imagine, he’s an ambulant dictionary. What you ask or have a doubt, he can
answer you. We laughed A LOT in his
classes, we made launches, we made bets, we
learned about everything, it didn’t seem like a course to study, but
anyways you’re paying and you learn if you want, and he did it happen, as I’m
writing that without dictionary online because my internet is not on and either
a book one. But there was a day, I came to the course after July vacations and
a stranger boy was sit in the table too, (yes, we used to make different
classes in the library), and the only thing I could hear Jonas saying was:
“Guys, this is Rafael, and he will be you teacher from here ahead”. It was so
insane I thought it was only for a day. But my heart and my brain were in pain,
so I asked him: “Are you going to be our teacher only for this Saturday or the
entire life?” (Yes, I said life.) and he answered: “Entire life. Why? Do you
see some problem?” and I answered back: “No no.” Man, I felt like I would cry
in the moment, but it was stuck in my chest. Can you imagine, my teenager, the
discover age, the only thing that motivated me to keep going to class (because
I had substitution classes and the others were absolutely terrible) happy, and
enjoy the all week and see that I was better in English than my high school
teacher, and feel proud of myself, discovering new places, new habits, new
accents, like people talk in Scotland, England, Manhattan or in Netherlands. I
was dead. So my friend who said to get in the class with her came out of the
course. And I used to take a drive with her every Saturday, that’s one of the
reasons I got in. But I kept going to the class, only 3 students, my adorable
Rodrigo, 28, and Gabriel, 14. And the new teacher, 20. Jonas was 30, I met him
with 28 and he was the all I could find in the world. I mean I’m not in love
with him in fiction, but I’m in love with his intelligence, his knowledge, his
personality and all he got in life. He is my inspiration, he is all I’m today,
he is everything I could wish for my growing up. I’m the most thankful people
in the world for have an amazing teenage, because I had the pleasure to meet
him like no other could do. I wish the
new course he started (Law, he got it in 2nd in all the university), he will
make it wonderfully like he did in his English career. I’m still there waiting
to see him, nervous, like every Saturday I used to be, and hug him any time
again like the last and say I missed him. I’m still missing though and I hope someday
he can give me classes again, he made my way to life and opened my mind and
eyes, and that’s enough he could do while he was there, and I can’t complain.
So that’s my English story, I’m mad about the language whatever be the trouble
or wall to go through and I will keep in love with traveling, always looking
for new advantages for new experiences to live for like I did in the last 1 and
a half year. The most important time of my life. Thanks Wizard and thanks
Jonas, you and Wizard made me.
Liza.
