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“It doesnt matter what you do. It matters how you do it” After two days of teaching, an unanticipated story happened to me. A student in the afternoon class arrived late after the class had started for a while. After hearing him say a few sentences, I could tell his English was pretty good and suggested him to move to the advanced class that my husband was teaching. However, he insisted on staying with the beginner class so I just let him do. During break time, i came to talk to him to give him the opportunity to practice a more advanced conversation. But i was totally astounded to hear what he said: “sorry, in fact i’m an English teacher. I was just acting to be a student. I was very impressed by your teaching method. You could engage student very well, make them happy and at the same time teach them so many things in a lesson”. I was so shocked and wondered why they sent an English teacher to my class to assess me. I was just a volunteer, not a professional teacher. The man then went on: “if you have time and of course if you would like to, could I invite you to my school?”. It was break time so we did not have much time for further discussion. After the class ended, i spent more than an hour talking to the English teacher. He shared with me that he was teaching at a secondary school. His best students always asked him if he could bring some native speaker friends to the class so that they could practice speaking English with them. He told me that he used to visit universities and other associations to find native speakers that were willing to visit his school. I asked “but im not a native speaker”. He responded “but you were born a teacher. I like the way you talked to your students. You showed you cared for them. You made them happy. I would like you to come to my class to inspire my students to learn English. Learning language is very important...” As he went on and on trying to convince me to come to his school, tears just ran down on my face. I couldnt stop it. While many people around me work hard and find different ways to get promotion and bonus, there is this secondary school teacher here going out of his way simply to help and inspire his students to learn English!!!! How amazing and inspiring! It was obvious that we could not reject his request. The visit to the school was very fun and informative. The students shared with us about Morocco culture and food while we shared with them some facts about Singapore and Vietnam. We became guests in their Spelling Bee competition, helping to read words and marking their papers. The students were lovely and confident. Some of them even voluntarily sang English and Arabic songs to entertain us. It was a highlight of our trip that we will never forget.