A morning at VMS.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 | shubha khamparia
Close your eyes and try to walk around your room..little difficult?
Or try blind folding your eyes and spend a whole day ..HARD?
Or try doing all basic activities of the day blind folded..HARDER?
What if you are asked to spend the whole life the same way?IMPOSSIBLE!!
I took my first lecture on english for the 6th standard students in Victoria Memoria School for the Blind,
and I found that nothing seemed to be HARD or IMPOSSIBLE for those Kids.
Saturday morning I was a bit confused about how would I deal with the kids , what if I go wrong somewhere?
Saturday morning I was a bit confused about how would I deal with the kids , what if I go wrong somewhere?
What if I named a colour,then how would I explain them that?
I was nervous..
But believe me,I had a BIG smile on my face since the time I entered the class , till I reached back home.
I had four students in my class..Anand, Ravi ,Shiva and Mayank, and one more volunteer from TCS.
They introduced themselves in english not so good , but amazingly very sweet :)
The introduction content was: name,favourite subject, hobbies and aspirations.
The kids like playing cricket ,watching CID and playing musical instruments.
When asked about thier aspirations, some students said abhi socha nai.., some aspired to be a musician.
I saw books in Braille for the first time.I could not sense anything in those dots.
There was a wrist watch on Ravi's hand which was a hurdle for my concentration,as I was wondering..how would he use it?
And in some time Mayank asked Ravi 'what's the time?' and he pressed a button so the watch spoke the time for him.
And I literaly felt like a fool at that moment.
The students were very much enthusistic about learning new words , grammer and conversation.
Infact Anand told me that saturdays are the best days of the month for him because he gets to meet us and learn some new english words.
While going through a story we came accross a sentence 'The peasant found a treasure in a BOX while ploughing the field.It was filled with gemstones and coins of gold and silver'.
The students asked me what are 'gemstones'? I answered 'Diamonds,heere jawaharaat' and expected the next question to be: how/what are these?
But to my surprise Anand said "kitna khush hua hoga na wo farmer.."
They stood up at their place every time they answered any question.I had never seen such enthusiasm in any class.
There were a few instances when I was completely stunned..:
1.Ravi asked me 'May I go to toilet..' And then I was confused whether I should help him through the way ..or..
but the other volunteer who was experienced with the kids stopped me. And as I said yes, Ravi easily went out of the class ,walked through the corridor, found his way to the loo and back to the class. He sat exactly in his position without any hurdles!
2.Mayank had problem with the FAN, so he asked Shiva to shut it off.
Shiva so smoothly went to the switch board and pressed exactly the switch that turned the fan off!
3.There was some drilling going on downstairs, so Anand could not concentrate. He repeatedly said that he cant stand the noise pollution. He stood up to close the windows, which were about 10 meters away from him , He banged on me once as I was standing unepectedly at a wrong place. But he found the windows , closed them ,and while coming back to the place he banged a few plastic chairs which were wrongly arranged,so he arranged them back in order.
I am still trying to figure out 'HOW?'
After around 2 hours of lecture ,Shiva inturrupted us in middle saying 'Kantaala aa gaya abhi bas karo na yaar .. lets sing some songs.."
After the class , Shiva sang 'dont say ALVIDA'.
Mini, one of the voluntiers , took me to the music room where students played the song 'AAWAN AKHIYA' on harmonium and tabla,
It was mesmerising. They could beat any one ,in any music competition.
I may have tought those kids a few simple words , but from them ,I learnt a very important lesson for the life time .
And that is "Come what may..Keep smiling , be enthusiastic, learn new things , forget all sorrows,indulge,enjoy! This is the way to live life.:)"
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I am so proud of you.. both for the noble deed u did back there as well as for the wonderful write-up you have got here...Keep writing.. Keep evolving...
Nice
Thank you :)I wonder y do ppl comment anonymous..
@Bansal:Sure will write more ;)
Gud One Shubha !!
Wonderful piece of writing and ofcourse wonderful work done for those children...
Good Write Up Shubha, I guess you would have a learned a lot more than those students. Write up is good, clear and precise and quite interesting to read.
Also best of luck for next ones...
Keep writing..
This is Varun,
Nice one Di...Good content and great experience :-)
Thanks guys;)
@varun:tera blog of batch info empty kyun hai?
@Neha:Thanks maam;)
@Shivangi:Blogger profile created..matlab log ab likhne waale hain:)nice:)
nice...
reading your blog inspired me to start writing blog... I think it will happen soon...
Raaste me koi rehnuma mil gaya..
Kaafile me koi humnafas mil gaya...
Dhundatey reh gaye manzilon ki talaash me...
Aaj humko begaraz wo aastan mil gaya...
Unforgettable experience... I feel proud to be a strong, susceptible and practical friend like you.
Hey thanks tausif and rajeev:)
wow the subject said it all!! :) :) good one shubha.. :) lovly n lively!!! :)
same thoughts wer running out of my mind before going there... life's unforgettable n cherishable moments :)
Stumbled upon your blog... Nice work.
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