Social project for UM - encounter with kids from SK Bangsar

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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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...

Thoughts, observations and impressions on my Social project  Post #1 29th of March 2019 SOCIALLY ENGAGED (preamble) Around this time last year, I have decided to go to university. What’s so unusual about it, you may ask? I am older, I.mean.much.older…..heck, from what I can tell (or rather see), I am older than majority of my lecturers! I am also foreigner. So   in a way I got socially involved, way out of my confort zone, with 19 year olds! (and it is challenging) Why do I have to do it AGAIN?? Us & them     SOCIALLY ENGAGED- SK Bangsar  Social engagement is a compulsory class for first year students at University of Malaya. Under the tutelage of pleasant and friendly  Dr. Nazean students are divided into groups and assigned social projects. By accident of mixing up some timing on my schedule, I  missed the very first class of Social engagement. Students were put into groups of 10 an...