My Inspiration! My Vision!

My Inspiration! My Vision!

It was about three weeks after the earthquake that the classes resumed. I had started my courses with full speed. It was a regular morning when I would go to my class and start off with the lessons. My first hour is in class 8. The sstudents of Class 8 has these little childish behaviours and is more playful in nature. I finished with the attendance of the students and was about to start the lesson. One of the students jumped and said, ‘ Oh Sunil, tero boat miss lai dekha na!’ (Sunil show your boat to miss) I was surprised thinking why these students are so fascinated by this boat. Then I felt may be they are trying to have some fun to skip their lessons. Then I said, “No boats, we must cover our course.” Then the other said, “Miss hernus na kasto khatra ko boat cha, tapai ni chadhna milcha.”(Look at it miss, its really good one, even you can have a trip on it) Then I was sure they are just fooling around so to prove their statement I requested Sunil to show his boat to me. Sunil Deshar, is my average student of class 8 who is significantly improving in Mathematics and other subjects as well. Sunil took out his boat and showed me. I was utterly surprised to see his boat.

Sunil Deshar with his first Electrical Water Boat.

Electrical Water Boat.

It was an electrical water boat made by himself. I asked how he made it. Then he said he made it all by himself without help of any books or any DIYs that can be found in youtube. He made it during the holidays of earthquake for occupying his mind. Then I asked the reason behind his innovation and he said that he wants to be a mechanical engineer in the future so he is trying innovative ideas from now on.

Sunil joininig wires to battery fordemonstration.

The body of the boat was a plastic bottle of a cold drink, there is a main fan at the tail of his boat, on the sides there were two medical plastic bottles that were attached with the body which had fans on either side. The main fan would push the boat forward, the side fans helped to navigate the directions of the boat and the wires were all tangled inside the body giving power to the fans. The main fan was from the unused CPU and he made side fans using light plastic boards. He didn’t have the small battery so he used the big battery to provide power to the boat. It was really beautiful. Then we went to demonstrate his innovation in the fountain of the school on the water. It was amazing. The boat worked really well.  This boat was simple yet very innovative. And most important it was very important for me because it was innovated by my student.

Sunil on demonstration of his Electrical water boat to his friends.

Through out this two years fellowship, I had been facilitating my students about mathematical theories, ways to solve them and most prominently I always tried to link every subject matter with real life and motivated them to practice all the theories they studied practically in every possible way. I wanted them to expand their learning through new innovation discovered by themselves, be proactive and encourage them to further their learning process beyond school premises. When I saw Sunil invent his first electrical boat in history of Jyotidaya Coperative Secondary School, I felt my effort of those two years is worth it. I don’t know how much and how many students I have been able to touch the lives of but to know that there is this one student who is equally making an effort radiates my energy utmost. Moreover, I am highly inspired by Sunil and his determination. I think this is what I wanted to bring about a change in my school. With the favourable school environment, I want to make my students leaders, inventors and explorers in the field of their interest. This is my vision for my students. 

My Eternal Love!

My Eternal Love!

The wonderful breeze of this evening is blowing my hair away from my face. The song Maya by Full Circle band on the background playing sounds perfect for the situation. The clouds are chasing each other making the evening more interesting. As its dusk the birds bid farewell and the starry night is rising above me. This feeling is blissful. And this is the love affair with my beloved, a never ending intimacy.

Oh yes, I am so much in love with my beloved. All those times that we are together to celebrate ourselves. The celebrations for my  existence, for our togetherness and for no reasons. Everything perfectly making all the sense and your presence that I feel with me each moment makes my life marvelous. I never have to pretend or hide any part of me in front of you and never did you. In fact you would encourage being me, as carefree and creative.

Without any hesitation I would perform live singing and dancing, have serious discussions on important issues, and reflect upon while my beautiful friend would always be a silent observer, listen to me and motivate me more. I have never felt so complete than with you, you never gave me any chance to get disappointed, you have always given me more than what I have expected for. I have never been so satisfied and happy. Whenever I was down, you were always there to hold me, to motivate me and guide me. I might have deviated but you never left. You were always there for me. And for all this I have been so much grateful to have you and this moment together. Those moments when I am staring at you and you back on me, silently. Those times when I am in my terrace with you, feeling you each moment.

And after all those times spend with you, I realize the reason for not being comfortable with people around me. I have always been with my best friend who has always given me more than expected; I didn't ever need to fight with you or bother you or got any negative vibes from you. More over you have always supported me, encouraged me to be me, help improve myself and filled me with all the optimism that you shared.  And our relationship has been going on for so long but I have no complains yet and as I am in the crowd of people, I tend to be confused and afflicted. And therefore I just want to be with my roots, with my dear beloved my beautiful Aura.

My Love affair with my Beloved, Aura!

An Effort to create Leader!

There have been many times I tried to make my children leader, who can decide for themselves, think analytically and critically. But from this day I want to document it in written and thus I am committing myself that I will be writing a diary where i would write about efforts, effort of my children, of myself and of involved persons when I feel it is important to share.

First formal classes after earthquake and its massive impact on lives of thousands. I did not expect them to be ready for resuming the course the very day so I planned for something that will instigate their thrust to study. This was something that Swastika Di taught me while training and I felt is it really necessary? I did not know its utiliczation but for the fact that I had to submit I did. And after two years of fellowship experience, I realized its need though I barely reviewed it once I completed it preparing at the beginning of the session. It is yearly plan for completion of my course. It is backward planning to cover up the curriculum by the end of the session.

This year's circumstances are different from the previous ones due to earthquake, I needed to motivate my students and also need to make them realize that we are short of two months in a year of session. I felt this was the best activity that would make my students realize that we have less time, more things to achieve and a lot more effort that we collaborately needed to do. I wanted to make them realize understanding a topic, scoring good marks and having a better result is not only the responsibility of teachers but it is equally or more  responsibility of each student as well. Therefore, I asked them to prepare the yearly plan for this year in groups identifying different contraints and circumstances.

I was glad to see my students responsibly handling the given task so well that they even listed the name of topics they wanted to study each month including days to accomplish it consulting the book in detail. The consciousness in them about the time being less and the realization that they need to work hard and if needed they were ready to study in public holidays including Saturday made me feel now I don't need to worry about them.