Thank You...

hey today’s video is a little bit

different

today i want to give a special message

to you

from my heart you see on thursday it was

thanksgiving here in america

and whoo was the food awesome i enjoyed

the time that i was able to spend with

my family we laughed we talked

and it was just an amazing day and

thanksgiving

is all about giving thanks for what

you have received what god has blessed

you with

and the things that are going on in your

life so

i can’t leave you out you see a lot of

times you

put comments under my video lessons or

send me emails or send me messages or if

you’re in my academy you send me video

messages

just to say thank you for what i do for

you each week

you say teacher thank you so much for

your video lessons or

thank you so much for helping me reach

my goals and i appreciate all of your

messages

but i realized it was time for me to

tell you how i feel

and i have my notes right here so bear

with me as i go through this message

that i want to give to you all

you see i don’t think you realize how

thankful

i am for you that’s right for you

you know you may feel like you’re not

doing anything but you really are

you know as a youtuber as an english

teacher online

a lot of times my face or i’m in the

forefront so you

watch me through a computer screen or

your cell phone or or your tablet

and sometimes you don’t necessarily know

what’s going on in my head you just

enjoy the the video or enjoy whatever

i’m teaching you

but you may not realize how thankful

i truly am for you so let me kind of go

back a little bit

in my story um you see when i was

in korea again you know that i lived in

korea for 10 years you know that i quit

my job at nasa and i went to korea

and i was an english teacher there great

experience

learned a lot met thousands of students

taught thousands of students

and that experience is really one of the

best experiences i have had in my life i

learned a lot

i grew a lot and i developed so many

relationships

but right at the end of my time in korea

i had a dilemma the dilemma was what am

i gonna do

when i go back to america and i had two

choices

you see i had gotten my master’s degree

i you know i

got a master’s degree in oriental

painting and for those that don’t know i

love

art i love painting but i also enjoyed

teaching

so i had two choices i said okay either

i can go back to america and become an

art professor

or i can keep moving forward with this

teaching online thing

i can see what’s going to happen with

this youtube channel and see if

i can really help more students this is

a long time ago

maybe about three years ago and i

decided to

pray for a full week like i we i fasted

and prayed for a full

week i only ate a certain diet and i i

got up early in the morning

because i really wanted to make sure

that i moved forward in the way that god

wanted me to move forward

again stay with me because this is why

you are so important

to me so i prayed for a full week every

single morning getting up early and i

said god here’s the deal

i’ve been living in korea as a

missionary for 10 years teaching english

and my life was so fulfilled and now i

have to go back to america

god i need to still feel fulfilled every

week i need to feel like i’m giving back

and i’m helping people reach their goals

every week

if that means i need to become an art

professor okay

but if that means i need to move forward

with youtube you have to show me

so after that week after that seven day

period

praying hard studying the bible trying

to figure out how god could use me the

best

to help other people god revealed to me

that he wanted me to go the youtube

route

now at that time i wasn’t it was youtube

i i loved it

but i mean i wasn’t making any money or

anything like i was just literally

stepping out on faith

but the main thing was to say god i have

to help

people like i’m not just gonna do this

because i need to make money or i need

to start my own business

my goal was to help people

so god revealed tiff i need you to go

the youtube route so i said okay

i’m gonna go to youtube rap but god you

have to make

this my ministry you have to make this

something that i can use

to truly help people around the world

fast forward to today and now you’re

here

every single week i receive messages got

my notes here guys

every single week i receive messages

your comments under my videos

your email messages again your video

messages telling me

how much the lessons that i’m teaching

are helping you

you don’t realize how much fuel that is

for me

you don’t realize how every message you

send me

every email you send me literally makes

me want to work harder

for you and i know that sometimes you

all don’t see the

what is the word i want to say you know

on youtube you know it’s kind of like

we’re

on tv so you just see hey this is who i

am but i want to be real with you

your messages literally make me want to

work harder for you

they give me fuel for the next week like

yes

i did make the right decision i am

helping

somebody gain confidence i am helping

somebody reach their goals

so i want to work harder the next week

and i just want to say thank you for

that

your words mean something your messages

mean something i’ve even cried at times

from the messages i’ve received from

students

like man god thank you so much for

giving me this opportunity

to touch someone’s life through english

who would have thought remember i told

you all before and when i was in high

school my least

favorite subject was english not because

of the teacher just because it just

wasn’t my thing i did well in it

and i got good grades but i liked art

and science and math but

fast forward to today and i’m an english

teacher like i’m literally an english

teacher

and i want to thank you for being my

fuel

every single week your messages mean

something

i want to tell you about some of the

messages i’ve received from you all

um man the first one that really hit

home oh hit home means

kind of touched me or uh like maybe

brought a tear to my eye

or really really touched my heart

we say it hit home hit home um

a student man this was maybe two years

ago i think

and i won’t say any names or anything

but a student sent me an email it was a

long email i said okay let me you know

i read all my emails so for those that

get my email responses a little bit late

it’s because i’m the one checking my

emails and i get

thousands of emails but i do like to be

personable

so anyways this student sent me an email

and the student was saying

that um i’ll say they it was i was a guy

or a girl but it was

they said that they were in school in

university

uh they were an older individual maybe

in their 30s

and they had decided to go back to

school but they were living in america

and they said that it was so stressful

because english was their second

language

it was so stressful to keep up in class

they were having a hard time

writing papers and it was just a

stressful situation for this individual

and i understood because again i studied

in korea

got my master’s degree and everything

was in korean so i felt their

uh challenges or their frustrations

and they said they got to a point where

they wanted to give up

they said it was that bad and then they

found my youtube channel

then they found my youtube channel and

they were like man

a video they watch from me ah man

they’re not bad tears guys they’re good

um

that one of my videos help them not to

commit suicide

i was like man how can an english video

help somebody not commit suicide

and as i continued reading the email

they were like

tiffany you think you’re just teaching

english but you’re not

sorry guys um they said you’re doing

more than teaching english

and they said after watching my videos

they gained more confidence

um they started doing better in school

they didn’t want to commit suicide

anymore because of the stress that they

were getting from

trying to um

you know study in america you know and

english and their second life and again

like

it’s not easy studying in a second

language so when i read that email

and i realized that wait a minute i’m

teaching english

but somebody oh here’s another

expression

um came off the ledge so basically um

off the ledge means like you were about

to do something very bad or detrimental

um but you decided not to do it anymore

and the fact that a video

or videos where i’m teaching you english

could help somebody

not want to commit suicide anymore i

said okay god

yep i’m in the right place so again this

is why i’m saying you guys don’t realize

how thankful i am for you

um yeah so that was just the first the

first message and i was like

i told my family and i was like i’m just

teaching english

but when you get emails like that how

can you not want to get up early in the

morning like i get up early every

morning right now it’s actually very

early in the morning which is why my

voice is a little bit different

but how can you not want to get up early

in the morning and stay up late at night

to produce videos when you know that

what you’re doing can help somebody

gain more confidence reach their goals

and even for some individuals

gain so much confidence that they don’t

want to take their life anymore

this is why i do what i do because of

you

and i want to thank you for j again your

messages now

i’ve gotten a few more they’re not as

emotional um

but again if that student is watching

just realize that you touched me

and then you helped me to keep going

because again like

being on youtube and being a teacher

online it is a lot of work

but when you have students like you who

um appreciate the work that’s being done

and who are benefiting and who are

gaining more confidence it it makes you

happy like i’m happy every morning that

i get to work for you guys and to

produce videos

um and again these are not bad tears

these are happy tears and you know i’m

just touched by you guys

um i’ve had students who have messaged

me and said teacher after your videos

i passed an interview and got a better

job and can take care of my family i’m

like man

i’m just in my office recording these

videos me and the camera

but somebody’s life has changed i can’t

stop

i can’t stop making these videos for you

guys

i had a few students who hated english

they were like i hated english teacher i

didn’t like it

but now i actually enjoy getting up in

the morning to study because of your

videos

my job is only to help you gain

confidence

my job is to help you be confident in

yourself

and to enjoy what you’re doing and if i

can do that i’m happy

and when you guys let me know that

that’s what’s happening man

you don’t understand how i feel and then

i’ve had students who’ve said that um

um they’re able to do other things it’s

not just

english that they’re learning they’re

learning more about life and moving

forward and staying optimistic and

it’s just crazy honestly guys the

messages that you guys send me

and how they make me feel as an

individual

um so again i wanna

note thank you for watching every week

uh thank you for taking the time

out of your day to support this channel

it lets me know that the decision i made

a few years ago

uh to go full time to do youtube full

time and youtube is not easy

because you know your views go up one

week and down the next week and

everything fluctuates so every week i’m

researching trying to see how i can help

students more and how i can

be there for you more and some weeks the

video views are good and some weeks

they’re low and

you know it’s it’s not easy um for

youtubers but

you make it uh make it a joy you

really make me uh happy to do this every

single week so

once again um i want to thank you uh

again

thursday was thanksgiving and i just

wanted to post this thanks

this thank you message to you um for

what you do

um and for how you keep me encouraged

um i’m very i’m a very optimistic person

you know um

and i love what i do but i love what i

do because of you

so thank you for all your messages i do

read them

i do appreciate them uh thank you for

letting me know how these

youtube lessons have helped you um

yeah there’s a i know some of you are

like teacher where’s story time

this whole video was kind of story time

i give you the song

story time hey

but no i’m going to end here again thank

you so much you guys touched me

even though i’ve never met 99

of you i’ve never seen you i’ve never

talked to you

some of you on the phone either know

that you have touched me

know that your messages mean a lot and

know that every single

week i look forward to getting on this

camera

to talk to you to help you improve your

english

and to just help you feel more confident

so again

thank you i appreciate all of you i love

you all

and i’ll see you again same time next

week

bye