An Event that Marked My Transition from Childhood to Adulthood -- Yuri

   There is an event that happened to me that made me grow up. It was a part-time job at a cram school. Many kinds of skills were improved there. I will write about it in this essay. 

   When I was 17 years old, I had gone to the cram school as a student to study for university entrance exams. During that time, I had become friends with the director of the cram school. After I had passed the exams, he had asked me to work there part-time and I had accepted. That's why I didn't need an interview when I was hired. There were a lot of things that I learnt by the time I came to study in New Zealand that made me grow. The first was how to communicate with students. Of course, I always communicated with many students, even if they were not my students. For example, I would talk about what was going on in their school or household, their exam results and their favorite artists. It was fun, but it was not good to communicate too much and talk about myself too much. I found it so difficult to decide how long I should spend in general conversation. Secondly, earning money made me responsible. I had been a student before, so I had paid them some money because I wanted to get higher scores in the tests and pass the university. Like me, the reason the students had to come to the cram school was to get better marks to pass the high school or university entrance exams. I had to improve their scores, so I worked with other teachers, although it was hard for me. I had a lot of meetings. I found that the most important thing was to encourage the students. As a result, many students could get higher scores and were satisfied with their results.

   In conclusion, thanks to the experience at Cram School job, I could become from child to adult. Also, many of my skills will be improved more and more after I go back to Japan because I haven’t retired yet and I plan to continue to engage with students.