Food for your soul

Adding the dimension to my daily life

While preparing the lesson for my student, i was wandering into some thoughts and recalled back on how i taught my student.

2 years had passed like flash. My student had grown up into a mature little lady from the rebellious kid.

I remmeber when i first started tuition with her at MHI, she was not serious in her studies. She always skipped the tuition lessons to play in arcade. Can you imagine that i had to sit and wait for her to come?

I always headed to arcade to find her and bring her back.At each lesson, i often scold her with my harsh words. I can be very sacrastic towards her that fright her out of her wits.

In the moment of folly, she felt discouraged and quit halfway from her studies. Somehow she faced another problem in finding a job with only her PSLE qualification. She suddenly remembered my words. My words kept on barking in her mind.

It was fortunate that her school principal was understanding and accept her back to school.

Given this blessing that she was back to studies and decide to be serious, she gave me a call to thank me and wanted me to give her tuition.I was surprised at the change in her attitude towards her studies.

My patience and scoldings (harsh words) are worth all the efforts i put in her. I decided to give her extra tuition given her pace of learning.

This lesson had moved the heart of tuition co-ordinator that she was glad to see her getting serious in studies. Morever she was glad that i had brought her back to right track.

Maintain her pace of learning...

One lady from tuition centre remembered me and we kept talking about deaf issues. This led to one topic on my life. Before she left, she said to me that from my action and my life, this had inspired her to stay on to tutor deaf kids.

On my way out to lift, a guy who studied in USA and had learnt ASL. He was happy to encounter a deaf lady like me who use sign language and strike an conservation with me. He was so excited by seeing me using gestures in my sign language.

Asked me alot of questions and we touched on topics in deaf people in States where he met.

It reminded me of Kenchi who was an American Deaf guy and Yen who was my partner in Master of Ceremony for Family Day2006.Kenchi came to Singapore cos of his marriage to his Singaporean wife. Yen studied in New York and had picked up sign language from deaf people. He was very fluent in sign language. They showed different perceptives on the life style in USA. The thing that attract them to deaf community is their freedom and right in disability system in USA.

This trigger my thoughts and realised that things in Singapore had progressed very fast but deaf people of this generation today had lagged behind in the education where the syballus had been changing over years.

This forced them to think out of box and to be creative where deaf children find hard to catch up.

This is another dimension in my daily life where the person have to adapt to the ever changing world with open mind. The person has to navigate through the obstacles with wits, survival instinct that build the security area around them.

posted by citrusby @ 7/22/2006 12:04:00 AM