How teaching practice change my idea of how I see myself as a teacher.

On the first day of teaching practise, I was ready to give up. Maybe it was the School or environment. I don't know! All I knew was I didn't wanted to be there at all. The first week went by and I felt like I didn't belong at all. But as I got used to the school environment and the teachers as well as the learners, I started to like it more and more.
The one thing that definitely changed my whole perspective is I had a talk with a few of the girls in one of the Grade 9 classes. So as I asked them, what subjects they were going to take the following year. Where they simply answered, we leaving school at the end of this year. So I tried to figure out why they wanted to leave school. Reasons being, they don't like homework, they don't like learning, and they would much rather go work. I was in shock, cause who on earth gave these children the idea that its okay to leave school in Grade 9.  I stood by them and motivated them to stay in school and that they shouldn't settle with just Grade 9 to their name, that is ridiculous. And that my fellow bloggers is the very first time I saw myself an actual teacher.