Hi puys,
The HCS teaching project kicked off in handsome fashion. Here is the summary of what all we did this weekend.
Saturday, 29th - let's get it started!
The participants - Hobbes, Ravi, Maddie (Hocu Pocus), your's trulli, harsha n ghulam...
We reached the hostel at around 5pm, met the faculties there and immediatly got down to business...errr....I'd rather say interacting with the kids (almost 100 of'em).
they were split into groups, with each group consisting not more than 20. The faculty:student ratio looked too small (1:20)....but the kids made up for that by being very obidient.....
we started off with in-formal cross-intros, in english....poor maddie got ragged by his batch....since his telugu is as good as my french....the students made him give an intro first, then sing a song....and then what not....but he made sure he smiled all the way, great going bro!
The session went on for another hour or so.....the groups which finished their intros went on with role-plays n stuff...all in all nice way to begin.
Sunday, 30th - Junta jumpin' in!
The participants - "Ditto" + Vamshi (another one), Neha, Shweta, Nandini, Kamlesh and Dipti (hope i'm not missing someone)
So many new faculties increased the telugu-speakin junta's population...the best compliment I got was when uday counted me in the gulti-group!
This time we had 2 (or 3) faculties (infact its
annalu n akkalu, am i right guys?) per batch, so the personal attention to students increased...which obviously helped us connect with them better.....all the faculty members tried their best...esp maddie who was still being treated as the "darling" among the faculty members....
Initially I thought there's nothing called "home-work" for the students...and I was indeed right...however since maddie sings so good that other faculty members were also requested to try out their vocal chords.....and when I couldn't sing any song for my batch...some of the enthu students gave me one assignment.....I've gotta learn a telugu song n sing it for them next week....so i guess I'm busy with some office work next weekend...maddie, you can do the honors, please!!!
Ravi would try to get some weekday classes going, so anyone interested to join him, please do let us know....
C ya all next weekend!!! Its "labour" day, and I've to "deliver" somethings to my clients not.....Adios puys!
Forrest Gump - And thats all I have to say about that!!!