Back to Balara

 David Bryan Lao

         Last Monday, we went back to Balara.  I went to fetch my students but only one was present because the other one had an incident last week.  The teacher told me that he puked blood last week and was not able to attend classes since then.  I hope he's okay.

         I started out the session with Daniel, my other student.  He was smiling the moment we started the lesson.  I could see that he was excited.  Like last week, we spent the first few moments playing paper games which we both enjoyed.  After that, we started the session proper.

         Daniel learned the lessons quickly but he still had trouble reading.  He just memorized the forms of the words when he paired the pictures and the phrases.  He was well acquainted with the pictures and the sound of the letter "k" but he still could not read that well.  I think I should focus on this next meeting.

       Overall, the session was okay although he was kind of bored during the middle part.  But he became lively during the last part when we played the jumping-on-paper letter game.  I look forward to seeing him next Monday and I hope Jericho would be there with us too.