My Student- Suraj
What one can do in any profession when in the need to face a challenge? Just face it or accept it. I thought so and continued. But to my astonishment, surprise, shock, I was out of adjectives of the feeling; I soon recognized that with Suraj, it is not a challenge but disaster. To perceive a description about him, follow the number 230300. Do not misunderstand that it is telephone number. Those are the marks secured by Suraj in my consecutive tests.
After Hudhud hit Vizag, one fine and cloudy day, while knowing students’ comprehension, I posed about more than one hundred questions to my students when for a question only three students raised their hands. Among them Suraj’s! I was bewildered. I rubbed my eyes and checked again. God answered to my prayers, it was really Suraj. With confused sudden ecstasy, I asked him answer to the question. “He did it! He did it! He did it!” This was my response in my heart.
My joy knew no bounds. I celebrated the moment. But after a while, when I checked the question, I came to know how he could answer the question. You might really like to know what the question is if I was not wrong. The question is “What made Uncle George wake from his sleep?” the answer is “Luncheon bell (Lunch bell)”. Again here! He showed his interest in food. It is the adaptability that makes a teacher long with the profession. So I was adapted to his interests slowly. Every a time, whenever I had to give an example related to the subject, I used to give an example related to food which made him interested towards my subject. I took that as opportunity and made sure all exercises should have examples related to food.
I patted my shoulders for the achievement in his class work. But with home work, I lost half of my hair on head in just six months.
( to be continued)
Written by Ramu Magham
Ramu Magham is an English Language Teacher who drives his students crazy with trending technologies and current happenings.
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