EIGHT(8) YEARS OF TEACHING HER & EIGHT(8) YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP WE HAVE | A Day With My Student and Her Hubby

Year 2010 was the time I started teaching in a Japanese online school, I was working in another company when I first met and had a class with this woman, her name is Haruka, she was such a sweet and respectful lady and until now. She has this calm attitude that every Japanese people has. We got along and we had fun time in our classes, she always booked my class late at night because of her work. She was so studious that she was very eager to learn the language, English. Yes, in their work, some Japan’s companies require them to have an English background in order for them to talk with their clients abroad. She was working hard and studying the English language at that time when her level of English was still a beginner. But so on, because of her willingness to learn she managed to speak English, she has improved a lot when I met her. Have you ever felt a kind of happiness seeing a person improved and happy with what he/she has right now and that makes you happy also? That feeling! Teaching is very hard for us especially you are teaching with other nationalities but if you want them to help improve their English level and not thinking about the salary or pay then that is what we call passion. You are thinking about the students’ learning and their welfare.

A month ago I had a class with her, because she just got married, congratulations to her, yey for that! She mentioned about having a vacation but she was not sure what place or country she and her husband wanted to go. After how many days, we had some classes again and they told me that they decided to go to the Philippines. Cebu was the place they were thinking and they wanted to meet me too. I was so happy, she has been my student for many years and she became my friend, we talked a lot of things, though we have different culture and nationalities still our friendship remains and we get along. I was excited for them to be here because my student really wanted to come. So they have agreed that they would visit Cebu.

The day they arrived, they sent me a message for us to meet but unfortunately I had a class in the afternoon so they tried meeting me at lunch time, for a quick catch up. We were so talkative, talking about everything and her experience early in the morning at the hotel where they were staying, she was so funny I had a great time. Went for a chit-chat at a coffee shop. Talked about traveling to the south part of cebu island and planning where to go. After planning, they wanted to eat something, they said to have some Filipino food. So I recommended them in going to one of Cebu’s best lechon house.

One of Cebu’s best lechon houses and one of delicious Filipino restaurants in town! I recommended them here so they could eat lechon that they requested to ingest. They were amazed because there were a lot of people during noon time and some were waiting to have their tables. It took us 25 minutes to sit, had our table and our order served due to massive of people coming in and out of the restaurant.

They offer Visayan cuisine and they wanted to eat Filipino dishes so they ordered some dishes, lechon (roasted pig), pinakbet and strips of fried pork with garlic. Actually, they liked the food because of the taste. They even said these dishes and the taste were different in their country, plus they said it was affordable for them and they loved it.

The House of Lechon has a modern structure restaurant with bamboo decor and accents, so when you get there it’s actually a comfortable feeling and stylish filipino style place. Because it serves Filipino cuisine, there are these usual Filipino favorite dishes like sisig, humba, calderera, ngohiong, bam-i, dinuguan and even serves tempura. This place opened in 2015 and take note, lots of people come to this place whether it’s morning, lunch time and even at dinner time.

I really do hope that they enjoy their first day here in Cebu. It seems they were really full, eating delectable food and having some chit-chats. I had fun with them and they were really excited for their travel in the south part of Cebu. Will post their vacation here next time guys! This was their first time and their first day here in the Philippines!