Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.
At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.