Out of comfort zone to embrace change

I GREW up in a stable environment in Sabah with supportive parents, siblings and great friends. My life was practically laid out for me. I was very focused on my ambition to become a teacher at the age of 21, so I took the route that most people would have opted for. I got into an education programme, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), in one of the teacher training institutions in Malaysia and graduated top of my class at the age of 24.

I went into teaching for two years and was constantly searching for creative ways to engage my students because I believed lessons should not be the same plain process that we went through every day.