A medical technologist by profession, Iris Mint had to be more careful at work during the pandemic since she extracts bodily fluids from patients. On the side, she teaches English online using the 51Talk platform to earn extra.
IT has been more than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out across the world. Though unprecedented, the fight against the virus is starting to shift with massive vaccination drives now taking place and lockdown measures being eased. As medical professionals who have been serving on the frontline look back at the early days of the outbreak, they are starting to realize just how much the overall experience has changed their lives.
Among these medical frontliners in the Philippines are Alenah, Cecilia, and Iris Mint, who happen to be online English teachers of popular teaching platform 51Talk. Coming from different fields of medical expertise, their experiences of being on the frontline vary, yet their stories are linked by the lessons they have learned. They also have the common ground of experiencing how teaching online helped them cope with the hardships that the pandemic brought.