Weekend Activities: Snapshot

31-OCT-2009
This week's activities started after Sridhar and I reached IGIA at around 10:30 am

I went to the X standard and Sridhar went to IX standard and we both distributed notebooks, pens and notepads in each class. These stationery items would be used to take down the notes from the black board and write atleast five English words with their meanings.

After the stationery distribution, we started to handle the classes as usual with Sridhar for Chemistry in IX std and myself for Economics with IX std students. We also decided to give the same stationery for the XI students.

One of our UWF member KamalNath got inputs on what to be taught in Kannada for IX and X standard students. He would be handling two classes every week for Kannada right from the basics.

Sridhar and Kamal had searched for doctor during lunch time but couldn’t find anyone. Later post lunch we had a synchronization meeting with a few college students on the subjects and topics to be covered and taught. We were open to accept them as volunteers in UWF. But they are yet to decide on it.

Post lunch:

Sridhar was tutoring XI science students and I started with X Mathematics.
In the mean time were told not to be too lenient with the students and avoid creating interaction between girls and boys in the class.

We were also asked to complete the class by 6 pm, else have the classes seperately for boys and girls. There were many reasons cited.

We started back to our home by 6:30 pm on our rocket :)


01-NOV-2009

It was Sunday, and its a routine for the IGIA people to wash their bed spreads, dresses and other clothes. So we planned to reach there a bit late. In the name of finding the shortest route, we roamed around and finally reached IGIA by 10:45 am. We were welcomed by our students and many of them greeted us gud morning!

It was time for our sessions. I went to the X standard to take mathematics and Sridhar was involving XI girls for the role play. The scenario was people interacting in a vegetable market/ groceries shop. As usual I went in to take GP and HP. I distributed their mathematics test paper which we had taken for analysis the previous day. We had our session till lunch time.

We had to meet a college student before lunch and interacted with him about his plans for IGIA. We told him about UWF and its activities. We three went for lunch at the near by dosai kadai. We returned back in half an hour.

Post Lunch:

After lunch, Sridhar went to handle XI standard commerce group girls. He walked through the Economics first chapter and made them understand each and every topic. They started to find economics easy. We can still make them to be masters!!! In the mean while I was handling X std again. I asked them to write a small test on AP, GP which most of them did correctly. People who were not able to get answers were because of minor/ silly mistakes which was notified to them to correct the same.

After about an hour we interchanged our class rooms. I went to XI standard and Sridhar handled X standard. I was handling Communication and Personality development sessions. I dealt with English Homonyms, word formation, extempore and public speaking techniques. Sridhar was interacting with the X students on devils/ spirits and their existence. The final conclusion given by Sridhar was: there is nothing like devils/ spirits. People can post their views on this conclusion :) :)

Later we went back to the class room to discuss how much we were productive for the day. The students told 95% fun and 5% studies for Sridhar's class :) :) And for me it was 65% and 35%. Sridhar set himself an AI that his productive hours should atleast be 65%. All the very best, Sridhar!!!

We dispersed by 6:30 pm and we had a talk with Kokilavani. We asked her to subscribe to two deccan chronicle newspapers and UWF will be sponsoring for it. We also ensured that the paper reaches the concerned people. We need to keep a track of this!

Action Items
1. Pull in more volunteers
2. Arrange for a doctor who can regularly visit the campus on our behalf
3. English – English – Tamil dictionary for students and English – English dictionary in the library
4. Ensure the stationery provided are used effectively.
5. Bring in more commerce grads
6. Pour in ideas for the improvement of communication