Monday, June 16, 2008
Class 14 - thanks for the memory....
Ok--why pick this topic ! Well-why NOT this topic? After all the semester is over.
Then you may well ask --"So what !!" There has been many "last Semester" before.
Haa--the difference with this class (formerly Class 14 and 15), I have taught them from Semester 1 to this Semester 5 which is the last for their English programme. Allow me to recall.
When these two classes first joined the programme, there was an acute shortage of English Lecturers. So I suggested that there should be combined classes. Thus ---Class 14 & Class 15 - just for English lectures.
Even then I forgot all about the first session with them as I had so many other classes to take care of and it slipped my mind. When Azura reminded me about it, I dragged my feet (only human --and a tired one too) to walk over to CIUC to have the first class in room 306.
Anyway when I met them for the first time on the third floor of Wisma Sachdev -- I see new faces. All looking lost but still eager. A girl came in late and sheepishly apologised and took her seat.
Oh you people looked so lost . Some of you looked like little babies, well, that is an exageration, not babies, but todlers ---on the first day of kindergarten.heheheh. I was so afraid that if I shout suddenly, some of you might burst in tears.
Some of you looked at me suspiciously. Honesly ! You'd probably were saying in your head, 'alah boring nya dia ni....' Come on--thats true right ? Some of you seems so far away---probably thinking of your family back in Sabah --or boyfriend or girlfriend or your cats, your pet fish...
At that moment--I told myself that I'm going to change this quiet lot to a noisy , vociferous and talkative one. I want to see that most , if not all of you become better speakers of English
I got everyone to introduce themselves and that was the beginning of a 5-semester sessions with you lot. But to you residents of Class 14 and 15 --- i enjoyed every session that I had had with you. And I mean it.
General English lessons can be interesting. The role play, the public speaking session, the practical session --and you people can be a funny lot and makes teaching enjoyable. Everyone of you are different , and an individual in your own way.
I can't remember if I have ever lost my cool with you lot in class. Have I ?
I could list the highlights of the last five semesters. In fact I did just now but decided to delete them.
Through this time , I did get to know better some of you. Some may decide to keep your distance --but I have no hard feeling about that. Some are too shy which is regretable. There are some who found it hard to break the ice. But I'm glad that there are those who are only beginning to open up. Its better late than never.
What ever it is, when our paths cross again in future, this is all i ask of you ---don't be a stranger and good luck in everything you do.
Then you may well ask --"So what !!" There has been many "last Semester" before.
Haa--the difference with this class (formerly Class 14 and 15), I have taught them from Semester 1 to this Semester 5 which is the last for their English programme. Allow me to recall.
When these two classes first joined the programme, there was an acute shortage of English Lecturers. So I suggested that there should be combined classes. Thus ---Class 14 & Class 15 - just for English lectures.
Even then I forgot all about the first session with them as I had so many other classes to take care of and it slipped my mind. When Azura reminded me about it, I dragged my feet (only human --and a tired one too) to walk over to CIUC to have the first class in room 306.
Anyway when I met them for the first time on the third floor of Wisma Sachdev -- I see new faces. All looking lost but still eager. A girl came in late and sheepishly apologised and took her seat.
Oh you people looked so lost . Some of you looked like little babies, well, that is an exageration, not babies, but todlers ---on the first day of kindergarten.heheheh. I was so afraid that if I shout suddenly, some of you might burst in tears.
Some of you looked at me suspiciously. Honesly ! You'd probably were saying in your head, 'alah boring nya dia ni....' Come on--thats true right ? Some of you seems so far away---probably thinking of your family back in Sabah --or boyfriend or girlfriend or your cats, your pet fish...
At that moment--I told myself that I'm going to change this quiet lot to a noisy , vociferous and talkative one. I want to see that most , if not all of you become better speakers of English
I got everyone to introduce themselves and that was the beginning of a 5-semester sessions with you lot. But to you residents of Class 14 and 15 --- i enjoyed every session that I had had with you. And I mean it.
General English lessons can be interesting. The role play, the public speaking session, the practical session --and you people can be a funny lot and makes teaching enjoyable. Everyone of you are different , and an individual in your own way.
I can't remember if I have ever lost my cool with you lot in class. Have I ?
I could list the highlights of the last five semesters. In fact I did just now but decided to delete them.
Through this time , I did get to know better some of you. Some may decide to keep your distance --but I have no hard feeling about that. Some are too shy which is regretable. There are some who found it hard to break the ice. But I'm glad that there are those who are only beginning to open up. Its better late than never.
What ever it is, when our paths cross again in future, this is all i ask of you ---don't be a stranger and good luck in everything you do.
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