Jan 01 2009
Conflict with the students
I only had like eight students but since it was my first time to handle a class that had a different culture and upbringing it was very difficult for me. I wanted to be their best friend but I think the way I delivered the message was something vague for them. There was this one girl who had a strong personality and she tried to convened with the rest of the class to deliberately defy my authority in the classroom. She made the last couple of weeks a hell for me.
One time I gave them an instruction to do a roleplay. I even handed them a script. But they pretended they couldn’t understand my instruction. I had the Thai teacher explain but to no avail. So I had to cancel that activity and gave them something undeniably very easy like reading out loud.
It was the last day of the school and it was the worst time I have ever had with them. Before I sent them out for lunch I told them that I was giving them a treat. But when it was time to come back to class to conclude they were nowhere to be found. I alerted the principal but I think it gave a negative impression on me. A couple of hours later they came back and I didn’t know where they had been because the Thai teacher who was supposed to be our interpreter couldn’t say anything.
Upset and disappointed, I knew right there and then that I was going to get busted. The only thing that went well was the party where we had to share food with each other.
