One Day in A Class

My students from the orphanage house are from T'ganu. Sometimes they speak T'ganu accent among themselves. Although I repeatedly reminding them about not using Bahasa during the class, yet they still use it. Perhaps language barrier is the hardest thing to break till we get stuck in some foreign land.

One day I was teaching them how to solve some Math problems. I gave them UPSR questions and told them that the questions were taken from some boarding school and it was meant for final exam for Form 2 students there. Everyone was surprised and anxious. I could see in their eyes, "Oh shit..these questions must be tough!".

And so everyone took the simple test for a one good hour. Later after I gave them the answer, none came with all correct answers. The highest mistakes was 14 out of 40 questions. Then I explained to them that the paper was actually for standard 6 students. It's kinda frustrated to know that they couldn't even get the basic math right. Especially when the questions were written in bahasa. What more if the questions were written in English? Definitely a disaster!

So I asked them to do the corrections. One student casually replied, "Oh yes, baby!". I spontaneously replied, "I'm sorry. Ayuni, I'm someone else's baby!" and smiled to her.

The whole class broke to a hearty laughter.