Another two days passed at Parichay. The days seem to be flying now.
Time left seems so less and the amount that we need to teach can never
end. It's almost like we feel the need to complete everything, just
teach the kids everything we know, to the best of our knowledge, let us
pass on everything, however nice an idea it might seem(to me atleast) it
is absolutely not feasible. I don't really think I need to go into the
details as to why passing on loads of knowledge in just a small span of
time to kids who need their own time in understanding basics is a bad
idea. The thought of leaving this community (though there is still a lot
of time left) has already begun haunting ours as well as the children's
minds. Just today a girl asked me "Didi, aap yahan se jaane ke baad
hume bhool toh nahi jaoge ? " ("After leaving from here, you won't
forget us, will you ? ") It took my entire persuasive powers to convince
that girl that it's not that we won't visit ever again, it's just that
the frequency would go down considerably.
This has been her consistent question since the past two days, and today she even went on to ask me "Aap hume jab yaad karoge, toh kaese yaad karoge ? " ("How will you remember us ? ") and the only thing I could say was, when I am worried, or have too much on my mind and things don't seem to make much sense, I'll remember you all, remember the moments spent here, remember your energy and thus things would seem much more simpler. That seemed to satisfy her and we proceeded with the class.Upon our way back when Prateek asked us whether we all would really be leaving the community on the day decided, I realised, I was not the only one thinking of having a long term relation with Parichay.
Yesterday was spent in Maths(yes, again), despite my deterministic thoughts of NOT doing Maths, but rather continuing with English, the moment when the entire class starts screaming "Hume BODMAS pe aur questions karwa do, hume woh karna hai !" ("Give us more questions on BODMAS, we want to do that ! " ) then there isn't much importance given to your thoughts, and you do tend to give in to their wants. After all, how often does someone find a bunch of kids so willing to study ? That too Maths ? So yesterday was spent in Maths.
However, things were different today, not giving the children a chance to give their ideas we just went and started with English ! The class was centred around the basics of articles, mainly the difference between the usage of "a" and "the".
In the past two days, the kids made me very angry, and that is somewhere because of the informal kind of atmosphere created which definitely enhances learning but also seems like a barrier at times.
There was something that I learned today, it needs a lot of courage to scold someone whom you care for. One can either give in to the wants of a dear one and let them have their own way, or be strict upon certain principles and help in the development of that person. I might not be making much of a sense right now. Let me explain. There is this one kid in the class, for whom I have developed a great sense of fondness, not only is he an always smiling, happy-go-lucky kind of a boy but he also knows how to cool you down when you lose your temper by saying just the right things, by cracking jokes which might make you want to shout, but you end up smiling just at his sheer innocence. Now here is where the problem lies. His ability to make you smile. This makes me (rather forces me ) to ignore his mistakes, which I believe is not the right thing to do, and it took me a lot of courage to scold him and make him do some questions that he was supposed to do but had not done in class.
The point I'm trying to make is, that I understood that when people, your dear ones scold you, its for your good only and it does not make them any happier than it makes you while being on the receiving end. The kind of person you are today, is greatly attributed to the people who scolded you in your life and did not let you have your way always. Be it a teacher, parent, sibling or even a friend, I'll say take some time out today and thank them, because it is only because of them that you are the person who you are today.
Oh, and if at any point in your life you had the heart to scold someone dear to you, then I must commend you upon making someone's life better.
As for now, it's time to make a worksheet for the always-ready-to-do-worksheets kids. No, its not Maths, its English now.
This has been her consistent question since the past two days, and today she even went on to ask me "Aap hume jab yaad karoge, toh kaese yaad karoge ? " ("How will you remember us ? ") and the only thing I could say was, when I am worried, or have too much on my mind and things don't seem to make much sense, I'll remember you all, remember the moments spent here, remember your energy and thus things would seem much more simpler. That seemed to satisfy her and we proceeded with the class.Upon our way back when Prateek asked us whether we all would really be leaving the community on the day decided, I realised, I was not the only one thinking of having a long term relation with Parichay.
Yesterday was spent in Maths(yes, again), despite my deterministic thoughts of NOT doing Maths, but rather continuing with English, the moment when the entire class starts screaming "Hume BODMAS pe aur questions karwa do, hume woh karna hai !" ("Give us more questions on BODMAS, we want to do that ! " ) then there isn't much importance given to your thoughts, and you do tend to give in to their wants. After all, how often does someone find a bunch of kids so willing to study ? That too Maths ? So yesterday was spent in Maths.
However, things were different today, not giving the children a chance to give their ideas we just went and started with English ! The class was centred around the basics of articles, mainly the difference between the usage of "a" and "the".
In the past two days, the kids made me very angry, and that is somewhere because of the informal kind of atmosphere created which definitely enhances learning but also seems like a barrier at times.
There was something that I learned today, it needs a lot of courage to scold someone whom you care for. One can either give in to the wants of a dear one and let them have their own way, or be strict upon certain principles and help in the development of that person. I might not be making much of a sense right now. Let me explain. There is this one kid in the class, for whom I have developed a great sense of fondness, not only is he an always smiling, happy-go-lucky kind of a boy but he also knows how to cool you down when you lose your temper by saying just the right things, by cracking jokes which might make you want to shout, but you end up smiling just at his sheer innocence. Now here is where the problem lies. His ability to make you smile. This makes me (rather forces me ) to ignore his mistakes, which I believe is not the right thing to do, and it took me a lot of courage to scold him and make him do some questions that he was supposed to do but had not done in class.
The point I'm trying to make is, that I understood that when people, your dear ones scold you, its for your good only and it does not make them any happier than it makes you while being on the receiving end. The kind of person you are today, is greatly attributed to the people who scolded you in your life and did not let you have your way always. Be it a teacher, parent, sibling or even a friend, I'll say take some time out today and thank them, because it is only because of them that you are the person who you are today.
Oh, and if at any point in your life you had the heart to scold someone dear to you, then I must commend you upon making someone's life better.
As for now, it's time to make a worksheet for the always-ready-to-do-worksheets kids. No, its not Maths, its English now.
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