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Selamat Tinggal and Good Bye!

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Selamat Tinggal and Good Bye Aren't we strange creatures? I was sometimes wishing for this class to be finished but now that it actually will, I am almost nostalgic about it. I wonder if I am not going to start Blogging (?!) I am so extremely tired tonight ( I think that this is bad English or something called pleonasm... I have just Googled it and I wonder if it is... pleonasm is "burning fire" .. if it is fire, it is already burning.....if I am extremely tired, am I already so tired? ....hm semantics....)  so I have decided to go to bed early. I whatsApp-ed a friend and told her about it and she said that if I was, I should have been in bed already, well I guess that time is relative as well as many other things in life. Did I do a good job with Aishyah? I would like to think so,  but it is also obviously relative... Aisyah's mom I have talked to Miss Nur Zalia this week. I have sent her a message asking her to ask Aisyah to do some work and telling her...
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Another blog night...

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Another blog night... ....and I am not motivated to write. I went to I learn Ace and Aisyah hasn't done any work from last week (despite the fact that I have written to her and to her mom). I still write to Miss Nur Zalia in Bahasa (through Ajwad) and to Aisyah in English and directly to her personal mobile phone. I told Miss Nur Zalia that Aisyah can reply by whatsApp from her phone (as I send sms-es to Aisyah  and she can't reply for free (she does not have a whatsApp)). I have also told Aisyah that she can answer me for free from her mom's phone...  but she doesn't. I don't think she feels like it, which, in a way, I can understand. She has no reason to talk to me and I always contact her about doing work. She is 12, on the edge of being a teenager.... Last message to Aisyah's mom  One-way communication with Aisyah I will write to Miss Nur Zalia again this week (and to Aisyah as well). There is one last blog I think, next Friday, but I ...
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Slow and Steady .....

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Slow and steady ........( wins the race)  Yes it is a metaphor and yes, I am referring to Aesop's well known story about a Tortoise and a Hare. And by now you have probably guessed, the tortoise could be both Aisyah and me but the point is, I'd much rather be tortoise!  Though the success was not instant (is it ever?) I am quite happy with the development of the events. And though "success" is a big word, I do consider this a small win. Aisyah does the work (and her mom said she wouldn't) when I have contacted her just before the last weekend. A message from Aisyah's mom I check it weekly and Aisyah did things last week and she did them again. I was kind of worried that I will see nothing in May (as the month have just begun) but she is there again, holding a 9th position so far among the students from her school. I've been thinking how many of us from UM have gone to SK Bangsar. I have never checked the exact number with Nash (my group le...
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A bumpy road to success

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A bumpy road to success!  Rural African rough road (but what a beauty surrounds it if one cares to notice!)  Hahaha... yes, I wish it would be that easy!  After the first euphoria because Aisyah's mom finally replied, things got calmer. I have sent some more messages, asking and demanding, in the same time, that Aisyah does some work (trying not to be too laid-back and totally ignored, but then again,  I can only push it just so far without the family closing themselves off). My inner psychologist was plotting influence while kind of flattering and passing the message that the family is in control... And then, there is Aisyah, I really do believe that education can help anyone (and even if it wouldn't,  it is the right way to go) and that this effort would bring a benefit for Aisyah. I started getting a bit lost in-between the messages I have sent and replies I have received, frantically switching from Ajwad's whatsApp to Miss Nur Zalia's me...
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A breakthrough!

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Breakthrough!!!! My endless trying has paid off!! Not exactly a quantum leap but a step forward! I have finally established contact, yei! As you probably don't remember (but I very well DO !) I was desperate in my last blogging edition. My numerous attempts by phone and quite a number of sms-es in English haven't lead to anything. I mean A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G!  My missed calls haven't been returned, Aisyah's mom did not answer a single one on my sms's and she did not call me back after my messages piled-up on her vocal messaging system.  Null, just like this! Action, ha!  Trying to be smart and entrepreneurial  (😄), I have decided to contact SK Bangsar and see if somehow I can get Aisyah's dad phone number. Maybe I would get lucky and he would be more responsive to my demands??  In parallel, I contacted Ajwad, one of the boys from my group I had good contact with, and asked him if he would be kind to write me couple of messages in Bahasa (first ...
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I learn Ace & learning at any age

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I learn Ace loggin I LEARN ACE I Learn Ace is an educational platform made by Malaysian company Mind Tech. Mind Tech is a subsidiary of Sasbadi Holdings Berhad, company found in 1985. Their initial business was publishing. They were, and still are, producing books and other educational material. To  diverge on educational online platform,  in this technological age and during 4.0 revolution seems like a logical and sound decision. Their website claims that they are  creating solutions that are user-friendly, interactive and fun for teachers and students and also adapted to the future way of teaching.   I learn Ace offers lessons and different kinds of revisions   for 4 subjects (Bahasa Melayu, English, Math and Sciences). On one of the previous classes   we were trained about its main functionalities. It proposes thematically arranged lessons for 4 th , 5 th and 6 th year of Malaysian primary school.   It uses classical...
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Two weeks later....

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Great picture of Aisyah and me..... . ...and Not so great update on Aisyah When somebody is lucky, we say (in the country of my birth), that his spoon had fallen into a honey pot. That is what I thought when Fahad accepted to swap my boy for his girl. Not to fall into stereotypes (and just in case I get accused of sexism, I have both, a boy and a girl, which gives me a tiny authority  (in my eyes  😉😉) to talk about the subject with some inside knowledge...(hahahaa...this is not to be taken too seriously) ),  boys and girls ARE different! In general, one of the things is, that girls are better with studying (again, don't get me wrong, I am not saying girls are being smarter than boys and heck, I am now in a school that has male majority and there are some absolutely brilliant boys ...) but at some age girls are calmer and more study inclined ( you can check statistics, in quite a few countries number of girls in  universities have exceeded the nu...
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