Great Teacher Onizuka and Me

During the times when I felt like I don`t know what I really wanted to do with my life and I seemed lost as to where I am headed. I came across a Japanese series that have greatly affected my perspective as a teacher. Great Teacher Onizuka, released way back 1999, presents an unconventional homeroom teacher handling juvenile high school students who slowly won their hearts and trusted him.  I somehow relate to the instances that he had gotten into. Moreover, his attitude is also something that I could identify with. I had my share of `juvenile` encounters as a high school teacher more so as a college instructor. It has definitely stirred my emotions trying to figure out how to solve the crises my students are getting into. It was very challenging for me since I myself am encountering the same crises for the first time. Its like me and my students are learning life by first hand experiences. When the problem is through, we enjoy and celebrate together and try to recollect the things that happened and usually laugh over it.

What`s so funny over these realizations is the idea that I have seen the show way way after experiencing the same encounters in my life. I have seen the show on 2004 but the scenes have already unfolded to me on 2001. What`s my point? I simply want to tell that those lowly and challenging experiences that I had have a deeper purpose on what I am venturing in and am choosing to become right now. After all, I am really called to teach. No matter how many obstructions and detours have come my way. In one way or another, circumstances or shows like these have reminded me what I really am intended to do. The series was shown to me by a student that I have never been close with until after seeing the series. Nonetheless, thank you very much.

To wrap it all, we are called to become who what we really ought to become. Unconsciously, events transpire and people are met. They remind you and even solidify your past thoughts and convictions. It`s all up to you whether you give in to it or continue giving a stiff necked attitude. Great Teacher Onizuka is personified in me….I hope.

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