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Dear Prof. ***,

Thank you for the fast reply.
Yes. I myself have been pondering on this decision for a couple of weeks, too.
And that is the exact reason why I really want to talk to you in person.
(It will be much more polite and partially because I am afraid I might not be able to express myself clearly in emails...)

Near the end of my practicum, every day I asked myself about what I am going to do in the coming semester.
I even produced a list to see all the pros and cons for all my different decisions.
Then, suddenly I recalled the very first goal I had before I entered CCU.
And it's clear: I want to be an English teacher, no matter in high schools or in universities (if possible).

In this six-month-long practicum, I did enjoy the feeling of interacting with students and teachers.
I benefit a lot from all these working experiences in school.
I in fact changed, from a student to a "student teacher" who truly wanted to devote herself in teaching.
With all these ideas in mind, I really need to strive my way to be an English teacher in this phase.

But, I still deeply know that completing my dissertation is something vital to me.
I need to be responsible to what I had already spent three years on.
It's by far the biggest challenge to me, and I am not going to escape from it.

So I promise to myself, I will go back and finish my dissertation once I got a job in school.
(no matter as a official teacher or a substitute teacher)
I know it would be definitely harder to get it restart once I postponed the schedule again.
And lots of examples already show that students might not finish their theses once they got a job.
My decision sounds so naive and so silly.
In the old days, I would not have the courage and confidence to say so.
But now, I can say it out loud because I start to take serious responsibilities to my decisions.

Once again I am sorry that I may cause you a lot of inconveniences from all these.
And I am sorry that I couldn't have said all these to you earlier when you were still at school.
Thank you for willing to discuss this problem with me via email.
Hope that my ideas are presented clearly and logically in this mail. :)
I really appreciate your support.



Sincerely,
Mandy
--
MA program of TEFL, CCU.