Chapter 2: Teachers: Miss Celis

Isabel Celis, also known by Miss Celis. She's been the only teacher that has been by our side these 6 years. From the very beginning she's been quite strict. I guess it's a good thing, but back then, when high school was a really new scary thing for us, that was kind of terrible. But if I have to give her an adjective, it'd be absent-minded. Who can't remember her saying “where have I put my glasses?” or keys, or books, or papers... She's also funny. We laugh a lot in class.

If something about her has marked our lives, it's her “red cards”. We couldn't talk in Spanish in her lessons, but anyway, we did. Our punishment was that red card, which basically meant extra homework. We stopped speaking Spanish. It wasn't worth it. Doing tons of homework at home wasn't very funny.

Her lessons are different. We don't usually do the same. We can do some exercises from the book, but we also read news on the net. We do some listenings and readings. We have also done some lyric's songs. In my opinion, we learn a lot. Speaking just in English has improved our listening and speaking skills.

Miss Celis is a very active teacher. Although she isn't paid for all the things she does – She keeps telling us that.- she's the whole time organizing something new for the school. She prepared our trip to Wales and that fantastic week called WYSC and the exchange with The Perse School. She made possible the impossible. At the beginning, almost half of the class couldn't go to Cambridge because there weren't enough host families, but she managed to find a solution so... we finally made it!

Personally, she has had an influence on me. She has helped me when things hadn't been good. She worries about her students. She has supported me with my writing, and I cannot be grateful enough. She's a wonderful teacher and a fantastic person. We, the bilingual group, have been lucky to have her by our side. I don't think we'd be the same group without her, because in the end she's been our tutor all along.

After these 6 years we'll never forget her “Sorry, but life is hard”.