I have always loved Sleep, and the feeling is mutual. It is a deep and passionate relationship that\u00a0has endured many highs and lows for nearly 26 years. The most common cause for trouble in our\u00a0relationship is the unbalance between work and time. On the 3rd of January 2012, Sleep and I were\u00a0not on good terms and did not see each other the whole night. This was the night before the 2012\u00a0Teach For Malaysia Fellows entered the classroom in their placement schools for the first time.\u00a0Fifty amazing young leaders were about to enter a new stage of their life, make history and kick off\u00a0a movement.<\/p>\n
For students, the night before the first day of school is a chemistry set full of emotions. You\u00a0think, \u201cWho will be in my classes? What will the teachers be like? Will the classes be hard? What\u00a0clubs should I be in? What do I eat in the canteen?\u201d Each an important question that would dictate\u00a0the entire year.<\/p>\n
For a teacher, the night before the first day of school often includes the same questions and\u00a0emotions, but is far more fear-inducing. As a Teach For Malaysia staff member and a former\u00a0teacher, I experienced a similar mental and emotional trauma. The memories of my first day\u00a0teaching, the nervous phone calls, text and Facebook messages from the Fellows, and the sheer\u00a0excitement for the movement that was about to begin kept pushing Sleep away.<\/p>\n
Without Sleep, I arrived early to the office to prepare for a six hour Training Team meeting. The\u00a0distraction sedated my nerves and kept me relatively calm throughout the day. At the end, I had a\u00a0full report on the first day of school from the Fellows. Exhausted and worried for day two, most\u00a0of them crashed as soon as they returned home. I mirrored their exhaustion and worry, but when I\u00a0returned home Sleep was there waiting for me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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