August 18, 2011 (Teaching)

This will be my first experience teaching primary year students. I honestly feel really nervous especially with the number of kids that we predicted to come. Last week, we visit the village and meet parents so that they could be informed of this extra lesson to their children. They expected 30 kids to be participating. I was really shocked about the number of students because it is sort of a burden for me as a beginner. When Ibu Tiwi (our supervisor), Kristie (my friend who joins this activity) and I came in, we were surprised because there are only 5 students. We were so sad and expqct more student to participate so that this activity could go well. As for today, we introduce ourselves and get to know each other. Since this is a pretty small class, it is easy for us to get closer to each other. We did not start any reaching learning process since we wanted to start off easily. I find the students really enthusiastic about this lesson as they are very cheerful and participate well in discussions.