An Interview with Our English Teacher, Päivi Riihelä
We interviewed our teacher Päivi Riihelä and we asked a few questions about her past life and her working life.
She plays Pokemon Go with her five-year-old son and she follows blogs. Päivi also said that if she had more free time, she would like to learn new languages.
Päivi is a language teacher and she teaches English, Swedish and Italian.
She holds a Master’s degree in Arts.
Before going to university she studied Foreign Trade in a Commercial college.
She grew up in the countryside with her brothers. Päivi says she was a nice teenager and she wasn’t really interested in school but later she realized that it’s important to study.
She said that her dream job as a teenager was to be a travel guide or a flight attendant.
In Päivi’s opinion the positive sides about her job are her students, colleagues, and that she can teach subjects that she likes.
The negative sides about her work are the early mornings, when she worries about work-related problems at home, and when she has to give grades to the students.
She uses English when she teaches her students and when she has foreign visitors.
Her piece of advice to our students: Never give up, everything that happens in life has a meaning if you want to find out what it is.
Her plans for the summer are to clean her home, to read, and meet her friends and family.