RAiny day classes

Today was another day in Kru Nat learning House. It was raining heavily here but still students came in. Cheers to their spirit of learning. We started the day off with Pla as our first student. She practiced English speaking and a little bit of writing skills. Here we are trying to encourage students to speak more and as they speak we try to correct their grammar. It's sometimes laborious and very often difficult for them to register with the grammar as they speak, but as we go on I hope some day it register in their mind. The basic backbone of English speaking is grammar, but grammar here is often a subject of boredom. So in order to make the subject more interesting we are currently trying to make the class more interactive and encouraging the students to speak more. More than Grammar it is confidence that matters the most. If you have confidence and believe in yourselves there is nothing that can stop you. In our daily classes we try to instill that confidence in each and everyone who comes to learn here. In life we may not always be right or get what we want but what is more important is to try and never give up. As they say "try and try until you succeed" I hope more than English students learn to try. In whatever they are in we must learn to live in the moment and give it our best shot then it will not matter if you are right or wrong, in the long run you will ultimately succeed. After Pla's class, we had a screening of an Indian movie 3 idiots. The film is on education. It highlights the pressure that the students have to take while in a formal institution. The movie tells us that is we run after excellence success will follow. It's also tells us to enjoy education and not take it as a burden. Towards the evening along with Soul, Teeraya and her brother (who was studying in Japan) we did a bit a letter writing. Wonderful people I must say, it was raining heavily in the evening, Both of them were kind enough to cook spaghetti for us. Needless to say it was alloy, so thank you both Teeraya and Soul. Well they have promised to write their homework on the blog here, hopefully they will be able to navigate the blogging culture. Tomorrow is a holiday for all of us, it's sad I won't be able to teach, but everyone needs a break I guess.