Selamat Tinggal and Good Bye!

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 that it is my last week and that I will stop exercising such a pressure on her. I have also told her that Aysiah's subscription to I learn Ace will expire some time in September and that Aisyah should try to profit to the maximum before it.  It was also a way to indirectly ask her if she is interested to continue her subscription. She did not take the hint, like I said, I did not think she would be interested.

I don't even know her but I  got to like her, she was very tolerant and benevolent with me. It just proves me that a majority of people are correct or trying to be so to the best of their abilities.  Even if sometimes I see that she is not replying my messages, I know that Aisyah's work is not just my deed, I think she reminds Aisyah what she should be doing after our conversations. I will probably continue to send her a messages here and there, in a months to come, even though I will not have to from now on. I will enquire about Aisyah, if she is growing well and listens to her mother. I think that she might like it, though it will not be in Bahasa any more. Ajwad has translated the last message for me, he was also great- correct, always timely and kind.

My last "official" message to miss Nur Zalia 

Aisyah

She wrote me tonight (to my great surprise and pleasure), though the message was of a strictly technical nature,  she called me a teacher!

She wrote me a message on my second day in SK Bangsar. Ray had asked the kids to write a feedback (which was a god idea). Most of the students wrote that one message but two or three got another, personal message from their adik. I was among those.

I did not ask anyone to translate this message for me, I kept it for a long time without reading it and some weeks ago I have Goggle translated it. I will not show you the Google translation ( do you know Jimmy Fallon show? It is a very talented Americain show host. He does this game where he translates an English song to a foreign language on Google translate and then translates it back from that language to English, then he sings it with his guests, sometimes it is hilarious!). My side notes are so long...

My name is misspelled  and though the message is bullet point-ed, it is kind. It is all in superlatives, maybe I should read it occasionally when I feel down! Many kids wrote nice things but some messages implied that things are maybe not that cheerful at home. I felt sad for them, I felt sad for all of us all of a sudden.... 

Aisyah's messge to me 

I learn ace and make a difference!

Aisyah did some exercises this week, good girl! This is just to perform my duty correctly, one very last time!

And a  final little note about I learn ace. It is an ok platform and I really hope that it will bring a difference in the life of those kids. I also want to kind of anonymously say thank you to the sponsor who thought  to offer something intelligent to those kids. There is nothing better to offer than a gift of knowledge! 

Part of Aisyah's work this week

Experience 

Hmmmm.... I don't know what to say......i am not good at those kind of things....

This experience, what has  it thought me ?......that the word is a complex place, that it needs a lot improvement, that it s a collective effort, that some are luckier than others , that you can work and form some kind of friendship even with people that are very different from you, that synergy really exist. That every experience has its value. That learning and knowledge are always good things. That even if you don’t succeed, you should try. That you should always strive to be better , that you should always strive to help, that nobody is better than anybody.... 

Aisyah, my Aisyah

And ... have I ever told you about Aisyah??  She is my adik. She is a beautiful girl in a blue headscarf.  She is shy with strangers and giggly with her friends. She is 12 and wants to be a teacher! 

Very  Good Night To You All and Good Bye!