Newbie

By Monday, I’ll be getting out of bed at least thirty minutes than the usual time. In the meantime, I’ll be wearing the same uniform (just a different shade from the usual). Just in case, I might also start bringing some personal stuff – most of them gifts from last Christmas.

Except that my route would be entirely different. Travel hours will be at least one hour (that’s if there’s no traffic). Once I arrive, I’ll enter a new building. I’ll have a new ID, a new daily time record, new office table, new officemates.

And instead of attending the Tertulia, I’ll be going to a Flag Raising activity.

Yes, after being an “oldie” in SISC for five years, I will turn into a newbie – again.

New year, new beginnings; it’s a fresh start.

I feel a lot of emotions. I feel happy; at the same, I feel sad. I am excited; I am nervous. I feel confident yet uncomfortable.

Like any of us, we go to this stage of being a newbie – new in the community, new at school, new at work. Some of us would like to get rid of the “newbie” in us immediately. The reality is, we can’t. There will be no experts, no number of experiences under our belt, no lessons to learn, if we don’t start with the first – if we do not become a newbie.

But unlike others, I will seize the moment of a newbie because it will be the one that I will look back to every now and then.

Yes, I’m a newbie. And I’m proud to be one.

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The blogger is a former Human Resource Development Specialist in Southville International School and Colleges.