Over the last few weeks have finalised my lessons with my students. I felt a little sad as this will be one of the last times that I will see them before I leave. The first class to finish their lessons where the International Trade students. Some of the students invited me to Thoai Son and also to visit a student’s house. The next class to finish was the Accounting class, followed by the Agribusiness class, and lastly the Finance Class.
While finalising the some work the class representative came and asked if I had any plans. As I didn’t she asked me to join the class for (extremely early) dinner. So we went to the restaurant and proceeded to wait for everybody else to arrive. I enjoyed talking with my students on a more personal level, something I miss as in class we often talk about business topics.
Many students seemed eager to find out about my plans, however this left me confused as I still don’t know what I will do in the future. The feeling of uncertainty consumed me for a while until we were distracted with the seafood soup. I felt that everybody was trying to make me have a good time and persuade me to stay here longer. After dinner, we went to a massive photo session across from the restaurant. I was put out by the number of reshots we had to take because people just moved into the way of the camera without any regard for the photographer. Luckily, we finished after about 15 mins and headed out to karaoke.
At karaoke the feeling of being powerless arrived again, as they wouldn’t let me choose songs yet proceeded to find every English song they could and a student would sing it with me. Although, this could have been a risky situation with my bad singing it all turned out great and we had tons of fun. By the end of the night I was tired (as was my voice) and was eager to turn in.
The next day was the exams for the Agribusiness class. As I arrived the students seemed just as nervous as I was. I could not work out why I was nervous, just was. Maybe I was worried for them, alas for no need as most did well. As I finished working I noticed that most of the students were all still around and I suspected something was up, after the previous day.
They all convinced me to go to coffee, which I thought was nice. I also missed a lot of opportunities to talk to the students about non-business topics. We went to this really nice coffee shop on what seemed like the edge town. It was really tranquil and was not expecting the surprise that was waiting for me. Kevin, an old friend was there. I met him from Julie and he is a good Karaoke singer. So unfortunately I spent a lot of time catching up with him, yet felt obliged to attend to my students interjections. The questions posed were similar to the previous day’s, to which I still had no answers.
During the coffee, a number of students were discussing where to take me next. One student slyly asked me if I like rabbit. After I said yes it was agreed to go and eat rabbit. We proceeded to go from one side of town to another through the back streets. I was really lost as I hadn’t been this way before, yet my students continued to reassure me that they new where they were going. And they did, before I knew it I was being toasted while people were choosing dishes from the menu.
Well it was the students turn to become the teacher as they wouldn’t let me speak English and continued to teach me Vn. I learnt some useful phrases and felt good that I could use them on them that day, to great amusement for all. After a large bit of banana rice wine we decided to call it a day, with our bellies full.
I was expecting after the finance class to have some memories with them, however so far I am disappointed. I think it has something to do with the rushing of all their subjects from a variety of teacher’s not giving any time off. I hope I will have an opportunity to see them before I go and learn more about them.
While finalising the some work the class representative came and asked if I had any plans. As I didn’t she asked me to join the class for (extremely early) dinner. So we went to the restaurant and proceeded to wait for everybody else to arrive. I enjoyed talking with my students on a more personal level, something I miss as in class we often talk about business topics.
Many students seemed eager to find out about my plans, however this left me confused as I still don’t know what I will do in the future. The feeling of uncertainty consumed me for a while until we were distracted with the seafood soup. I felt that everybody was trying to make me have a good time and persuade me to stay here longer. After dinner, we went to a massive photo session across from the restaurant. I was put out by the number of reshots we had to take because people just moved into the way of the camera without any regard for the photographer. Luckily, we finished after about 15 mins and headed out to karaoke.
At karaoke the feeling of being powerless arrived again, as they wouldn’t let me choose songs yet proceeded to find every English song they could and a student would sing it with me. Although, this could have been a risky situation with my bad singing it all turned out great and we had tons of fun. By the end of the night I was tired (as was my voice) and was eager to turn in.The next day was the exams for the Agribusiness class. As I arrived the students seemed just as nervous as I was. I could not work out why I was nervous, just was. Maybe I was worried for them, alas for no need as most did well. As I finished working I noticed that most of the students were all still around and I suspected something was up, after the previous day.
They all convinced me to go to coffee, which I thought was nice. I also missed a lot of opportunities to talk to the students about non-business topics. We went to this really nice coffee shop on what seemed like the edge town. It was really tranquil and was not expecting the surprise that was waiting for me. Kevin, an old friend was there. I met him from Julie and he is a good Karaoke singer. So unfortunately I spent a lot of time catching up with him, yet felt obliged to attend to my students interjections. The questions posed were similar to the previous day’s, to which I still had no answers.During the coffee, a number of students were discussing where to take me next. One student slyly asked me if I like rabbit. After I said yes it was agreed to go and eat rabbit. We proceeded to go from one side of town to another through the back streets. I was really lost as I hadn’t been this way before, yet my students continued to reassure me that they new where they were going. And they did, before I knew it I was being toasted while people were choosing dishes from the menu.
Well it was the students turn to become the teacher as they wouldn’t let me speak English and continued to teach me Vn. I learnt some useful phrases and felt good that I could use them on them that day, to great amusement for all. After a large bit of banana rice wine we decided to call it a day, with our bellies full.I was expecting after the finance class to have some memories with them, however so far I am disappointed. I think it has something to do with the rushing of all their subjects from a variety of teacher’s not giving any time off. I hope I will have an opportunity to see them before I go and learn more about them.
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