First Impression

First Impression

            Monday 6^th of February was a day to remember, It was the first day for Sama, ‘Hadad and I to teach. That evening was filled with anticipation and not knowing what we got ourselves into at first, later those feelings transformed into feelings of excitement, responsibility, obligation and joy. Our students are Managar, Laxman, Hem, Roshan with an ‘s’, Prakash, Devraj, Dipak, Kashiraj, Hashan, Pradee, J.Roshen, Saman, S.Meril, Lakmal, and Kedar who wasn’t on the list but saw the class was about to start and asked if he could voluntarily attend. I’m really proud that I could match the faces to the names on the attendance sheet and could call some of them spontaneously, however I hoped to meet John Rajo, he’s another student that could not attend that evening.

            We started the class by introducing ourselves and then taking it step by step slowly in aims of trying to explore the general level of the class, and the skills and abilities of the labor workers in an English classroom. Ending the class with a pre-test to confirm our findings, but we were overwhelmed by the class average. We thought we had a basic class but what we discovered was that our students were pretty advanced. This taught me not to underestimate shy and quiet individuals.

           

Regards,
AL Hanouf