Teacher Sharing｜Lai Qiuzhong

After graduating from university, I worked as an equipment engineer in a science park. I worked two days off and had two days off. I worked 12 hours a day and had to work day and night shifts. After working for 6 years, I saw more and more red numbers on my health reports... plus this job just to make a living was not my interest, so I started planning to develop a second skill. One day while wandering around a bookstore, I came across the book "Wagashi Bible". I love Japanese culture myself, so I started searching for relevant information about teacher Emily Wu Huijing, and I happened to learn that the teacher was planning to prepare a wagashi teacher's class. So I decided to sign up!

Students can just follow along and laugh when they make mistakes, but after becoming a teacher, they must practice many times before the class, think about the fluency of the entire course, and cannot make any mistakes. It was after many emergencies when I became a teacher that I realized teaching was not as easy as I thought. I can only say the adage, "10 minutes on stage , 10 years of hard work in the audience" is true. Joining the team of Toukaya Teachers, learning teamwork and making progress together, felt like going back to the days when we were students and everyone worked hard to do one thing.

As an engineering major, I entered a completely different field, from being overwhelmed to being able to work independently. As the saying goes, "The master leads you in, and the practice lies in the individual." I have to thank teacher Emily for her constant pushing all along.

A student who has never been abroad once said: "It's great! You don't have to go to Japan to eat wagashi." This sentence has been echoing in my heart. We are a group of people who have the financial ability to go abroad. People only have enough to feed their families if they live frugally, so I want more people to know about wagashi and taste all kinds of delicious wagashi!