English Presentation Gone Standard.......NOT!!:

Made a poster of the countries that speak English the most.

I have to say today was a marvelous day. It was like one of those days that actually put tears in my heart, because I knew that I will miss all my students and I will miss Saudi Arabia.

We were assigned to do a presentation about English. In the beginning we were pretty mind blogged on what to focus on. I decided to tell my girls that the theme is on how we can use multimedia to improve spoken English.  In the beginning we were all pretty much dumb struck as to how we could pull this off, because time was not our friend. Me and Miss Ameerah we pretty much freaking out, but I was more freaked out, because there is no ways that we were going to look like asses in front of the rest of the University staff.

So, we decided to do movies, books, social media and split the work up for the students. Yesterday we were suppose to set up our corner for our presentation, but we were not informed about that. So, our corner looked like a donkey's ass, consisting of only a plastic table and a white wall.
Me and Miss Ameerh decided to head down to the stationary store and buy some posters, pens, papers, spray paint and anything that will make our presentation fantastic. I still believe that our corner was sabotaged, because some how non of the communication ever reached us.

Anyhow, I went home like a real student. I actually made a poster, made me miss high school all over again. Some how the students also came up with amazing posters and came up with awesome books, movie elements, coffee and sweets to make our table look great.

The one corner of our presentation. 

This morning when we were ready to set up, we couldn't even find a table cloth. So we had to go around like gangsters trying to hustle our way through finding a table cloth that looked decent. Eventually we begged for one. After wards then everything just melted together. All the students came to set up their stuff, organize the table, set up the movie that we were playing in the background.
I didn't think it was the most awesome table. However, the dean of the university thought very differently  She liked it so much that she even asked me to give her a copy of the movie I was playing the back ground....The movie is Ratatouille :) !! They stood by our table, asking us lots of questions on how we can incorporate multimedia to improve the student' English. It was amazing.  My students came together, serving all coffee, sweet and dates.

I was pretty impressed with my girls, I was impressed with them working well together, being patient with each other and really pulling through. We literally had a day to put something awesome together and we did it with no sweat. I am writing about this, because people often mis- perceived Saudi girls. Most people think that they don't have a bone of creativity in them or that they can't even organize themselves. However it is not like that. These girls are like any other girls, they have talent, they are creative and really enjoy working together as a team.

So this blog is dedicated to my class, Direct English Level 2 Group 1(Sarah, Leenah, Sameerah, Hineen, Haifa, Hessa, May and Norah). I think you girls rocked and you are awesome! Will always love you and for sure be in my heart forever!!

Peace,

You teacher!!