I have home tuition every Monday night, which I am teaching communication skills. My clients are two siblings both are girls age 15 & 17. Normally we would do speaking exercises from pronunciation, syllabus and stresses, some grammar among other things. Last Monday, was just how to maintain conversation, starting and stopping it. I asked them to tell me about a movie they watched at the cinema recently, and to my surprise both answered "We never been to a cinema, father prefers for us to be home, and if we want to watch a movie, he would buy the DVD or just download it from the internet". And I have this puzzled look on my face and asked "You guys are owkey with it". And the eldest answered "Father said, cinema is not a good place to be" The youngest shared with me her plan of furthering her study in Ireland and she has picked a place, and the eldest also have decided to do medicine.
After the tuition ended, when I was driving home, my mind was still thinking about my two students, and I wondered about my priority when I was their age. When I was 15 all I can think about was not to fail my PMR, and when I was 17, I just wanted to prove to my sisters that I was as good as they are. All I can conclude was "Wow, how time has change".
3 comments:
their father is being very protective. being protective is good but he seems too protective which is not so good, nnti culture shock bebudak tu
wen we were 15 we oso oredi picked our university (semestinya oversea lah) tp berusaha merealisasikannya tak pulak haha
I do have the same idea, hopefully no cultural shock. But I think impossible to avoid.
Hehehehe..at 15 I did not think that far... peer influence nya pasal.. *wink**wink*
I didn't even think of entering university until my sister went. I had this idea that I will be a housewife like my mother, although if ppl ask me what I want to be when I'm grown up, I say I either want to be an ichthyologist (it's a real word and one that I used to hang my friend at hangman) or an otorhinolaryngologist.
For some reason, ppl think my nerdiness means I'm smart or something. It only means I know words you may not be able to spell.
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