substituted teacher

Yesterday we got a substituted teacher in the Japanese class. No one was aware of this teacher until she shut the door and asked us about our teacher’s name to make sure she is not going into the wrong classroom.

This teacher doesn’t look like Japanese, she has short hair, a bit fat, wearing jeans, a bit over causal for being a teacher. She didn’t leave me any good impression until she started to speak up. She can not only speak very good Japanese but also the way she teaches was funny. She had a lot of facial expressions and her words made us laugh. She looked so serious, looking forward to our correct answers. If we gave them a wrong answer, she would give us a sad face which is not actually sad. She is quite funny. 

The first hour of the lesson was good, everyone enjoyed having such a funny teacher to teach us grammar and usage. When everyone believed she is Japanese who cannot speak Chinese, suddenly she switched to Cantonese for explanations starting from the second hour. Everyone was surprised. Her Cantonese was quite good too, very fluent and accurate but she needed to think a bit before she spoke. 

This lesson was quite good, I would say, even better than our original teacher’s class. She explained things very clear and helped us to learn deeper and clearer. Although she didn’t look good, she had her own attraction when she was teaching. She could make everyone look at her, concentrate on her lesson and really learn from her. After this, I think I shouldn’t judge her by her appearance only. Sometimes good things cannot be easily seen from the appearance, and mostly good things won’t come with good appearance right?