When meeting people for the first time, they often ask me if I am a teacher.  I say that I am a lawyer but I also teach.  I cannot remember a time in my life when I wasn’t teaching.

My first memory of ever being in a classroom type of environment was when my mother took me along with her when she taught her Sunday School class. On Saturdays, she also took me with her when she taught Good News Clubs around our neighborhood.  I grew up with a Bible Seminary next door.  My dad taught doctrine there and my mother taught personal evangelism and pedagogy.  In the afternoons, when all the Bible students had all gone home for the day, my brothers and sister would play “school” in the classrooms.  Guess who was the teacher?

My teaching career began when I was just 12.  One fine Sunday morning, the pastor saw the church members’ kids just playing tag in the vacant lot right next to our church during the morning service.  The pastor asked for a volunteer who could gather up the kids, teach them some action songs, teach them memory verses and tell them Bible stories.  I volunteered.

In college, I got a job as a student assistant and one of my duties was to give departmental examinations to the students.  After my classes, I tutored Japanese kids who were enrolled in the middle school of the International School of Manila.  I tutored them in French, Spanish, Social Studies and English.

When our church started a pre-school, I was tasked to formulate the curriculum for the pre-school and to manage it.  In the first year of operation, I taught the Kindergarten class. Until today, I am still the educational and legal consultant for the pre-school at our church.

I have two children. When they were very small, I stopped working for a while:  I was a stay-at-home mom.  To pass the time, I set-up a mini-classroom for my two children in a corner of our family room.  We sang songs there, we colored, we molded clay, we read together and had a great time.  My children are both in high school now and they have both been accepted into the special science class at their school.

Three years ago, I began taking on legal cases again.  I think, though, that I spend more hours teaching and lecturing at the Bible School, in Sunday School and in the Youth Fellowship than I actually spend appearing in court.

One of my former students is a computer engineer and early this year, she set up a domain for me here on WordPress.  I now have a blog and I often transcribe excerpts of my lectures and publish them here.  I began in April of this year and I have 53 followers now.  The blog is networked to my Facebook page and so, my friends can read the blog posts there, too.  I post pieces that inform and persuade people about current events, legal and moral issues and how I view them in light of Scriptural teaching.

I love to teach.  For me, the best moment in teaching is when I see the light of comprehension slowly dawning.  It is when I see the students’ eyes light up because they understand, because they can relate to what I am saying, because I have managed to articulate thoughts and ideas that they probably would not have been able to express themselves. I am a teacher.