An experience from refugee's visit

  Last week's visit by refugees to our campus gave me an good experience. We get to know each other very well by introducing my names and theirs. Our Education school students had arrange a lots of fun activities for them. We had scavenger hunt, musical chairs, caterpillar games and so on. The refugee kids had a lot of fun and we too.

  When we interact with each other was quite different from how i interact with my other fellow friends. This is because their first language is not English. Moreover, they also do not have a proper environment to speak English. Since other groups have a translator where i do not have it. So I had to use very simple English and say it in a simplified way and clearly. They was quite hesitate to be friendly and engage with us at the beginning of the day. Sooner, they started to get more friendly with all of us. Then, we all had such a fun time playing together.

   The day after the visit, Kay and i met Dr.Tida during our lunch time. We had a long conversation about the refugee kids and our education pathway. Dr.Tida told us that the refugee kids do not have a proper classroom as all of us had. Their classroom meant for them is located at the abandon building somewhere near to their housing area. The classroom size is not even big as our campus's cafeteria. The small space itself will be separated into few section and that is where their lesson will be conducted. Despite, they do not even have a fixed and professional teachers to teach them. The teachers whom come to teach is just a volunteer teachers. The qualification of the teachers is if they can speak English,understand English and got some knowledge about what they are teaching. These kids will be sitting down on floor without tables and chairs. In their class, there will be mixed of different ages of students such as 4 years old kid and 12 years old kid in a same class. Moreover,the lesson plan is not proper. For instants, if there were two teachers who came to teach English, they do not know what did the previous teachers had taught them. Thus, sometimes the refugee kids will be taught the same topic twice.  

  Now i know the reason why the kids were refused to be friendly at the beginning, they did not experience this kind of exposure in their life before. However, they had a lot fun through out the day. I can see them having fun, laughing, being friendly to all my fellow friends.

  As a future teacher, i want to help them in education wise by making them successful. They need a  good education, professional teachers, proper lessons, proper classrooms and so on. Dr too, i have a question for you. How can i help them as a teachers after i have complete my UG programme? I mean in education wise.