My Favourite Teacher In Highschool

We all have our favourite persons right?
Sometimes it's someone we can most relate to, sometimes it's someone who's always there for us to support us in the best way possible,sometimes it's our who can help us build our future.
A teacher
Someone who can definitely do all that and more.

I had a lot of teachers in highschool. Some came and stayed for some time while others lasted for long and made lasting impact on me.

On that bright monday,we had just finished our regular morning gathering and the principal Mr Baruch walked in and announced with beams of smiles
"We now have a new Literary Arts teacher" he said motioning for her to come forward.
First off,she was really beautiful,light skinned and average in height. From her looks,you could tell she was in her mid 20's

It was the way she walked for me
The aura that came with her presence is everything
You could tell how confident,poised and bold she is from the way she walked in.

"Hello students,good morning" she started to address us "my name is Joyce Uzoma,you can call me miss Joyce"

Wait,we have the same first name?
Joy and Joyce are basically the same thing I guess.

"I hope we all will have a nice and fun time together, I'm already excited" she finished her speech which I had somehow zoned out mid way and we all gave her a thunderous and resounding round of applause. I can't remember anything else she said apart from that aforementioned.

I was already going to do sciences.
Apparently,I had no business in literary arts. But I saw myself getting excited more than the Arts students themselves.
Thankfully,she joined us in our last year in junior high,that means I had the opportunity to actually see what she had to offer before my senior years.

From the way she teaches,you can tell she's so passionate about what she does. She's not just on about covering the scheme of work for the academic session,but she also makes sure the students grasp whatever comes out from her mouth. To her,it better you understand one topic,can defend it whenever and wherever,can be able to even help someone else understand better than knowing all the topics without the ability to defend what you know. To this effect,she goes extra when it comes to helping us understand a particular topic. She uses simple terms that even a child can understand, practical examples that are not way over context,visual aids because you can't easily for get what you saw with your eyes.

I remember this one time we had this book "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronté to analyse. The book was seemingly complicated for us at that time. The language was kinda ambiguous,the character development was also hard for us to comprehend. At a point,you could really tell it was getting tiring for her to make us understand,so she searched for any visual aid of the book online and she found a movie extract of the book. She downloaded it and made us watch it through projection at school. After watching it, everything was just easy peasy.

When it comes ro discipline and training, it's like another level with Miss Joyce. She's very strict and she doesn't necessarily have to say much to get what she wants done. She doesn't always go all physical with her punishments. For example if you skip her class or her home work, she'll tell you that each of her homework counts as part of our continuous assessment. That means,the more you keep missing her homeworks,your grades are already dropping and who doesn't want good grades?

She's so free-spirited and open minded. She casually comes to the class just to chat with us in her free time and that actually made us to bond so well with her.
The 2 years she spent with us was the best of it all. Although,I wished she spent more time with us but sadly she had to leave us.

We were really enjoying our school's end of the year party, when she announced that it was the last time we were going to see her. We were really sad,it seemed she took our joy the moment she said that. And that was the last time I saw her.
Sometimes I just reminisce those times in class when she would scold us,the times she would come through for us when we get into trouble with other teachers,the times she would make us with the funny examples she gives in class.

Miss Joyce is a teacher I would never forget. I wish I would run into her one of these days, I'll be so happy. I'll hug her so tight and never let her go again.