29/12/09

It has been 3 weeks and one day since I started at Literacy India now. And today, for the first time, I felt frustrated. I had asked them all to come prepared for a test. In fact I had told them exactly which question would come, but they had not bothered. But of course, they had had a four-day off. So can't entirely blame them. I then tried to do some trigonometry with them to try to make them understand the usefulness of the subject. But I think they weren't really getting my point. Have to try harder tomorrow and every day after that. :) It is quite a task to make these kids think. They seem to only want to mug up formulae and use them directly. They don't try to use what they already know to solve slightly tricky problems. They always expect somebody else to give them a simple direct solution. Have to do something about it.

I wish I could handle their English classes as well. I don't know how to put it across to J. Maybe I'll ask tomorrow. Or maybe not.