Over the weekend I happened to volunteer for a workshop (a pilot) of Experiential Learning. It had kids between ages 5 – 13years. It was fun to see a class full of kids, buzzing with energy, competing to answer the questions.
When you have sooo many kids, you are bound to have funny & embarrassing incidents. So, here are the tales!
So, during one of the sessions, the facilitator showed this (below) picture to the kids and asked who they think it was?
I obviously, didn't know the answer, but was expecting the kids to come up with something like Krish/Hrithik Roshan or the kinds and one of the 4year old raised his hand and answered "it is a man" :)....The other, a 13year old actually actually answered "Icarus was the son of Daedalus. Its a story from Greek Mythology" :O I was probably at 13 watching Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan and was struggling to understand (a smalllll) part of Indian and probably didn't even know Greece existed (and even if I did, I for sure knew nothing of "Greek Mythology")!!!!!!!
In another instance, there was this lady who conducted a session on First Aid who had a volunteer from the kids and was demonstrating the procedure for basic first aid and told them they could try/practice it on their parents or siblings, saying which she had 100% attention of the class! So, this one little chutku explains (with no doubt whatsoever) that “we should go home, make a cut to parents/siblings hand and then try the First Aid :)”….now, howz that?????
In another instance, there was this lady who conducted a session on First Aid who had a volunteer from the kids and was demonstrating the procedure for basic first aid and told them they could try/practice it on their parents or siblings, saying which she had 100% attention of the class! So, this one little chutku explains (with no doubt whatsoever) that “we should go home, make a cut to parents/siblings hand and then try the First Aid :)”….now, howz that?????
In the same session, the kids were shown some photographs and asked to identify what they are! In one such session they were shown this (below) picture:
Kids, each one of them (right from Class I to Class VIII) answered in unison: “Red Blood Cells”
I answered: “Chocos” (the cereals)
After the first incidence, this was like fuel to the fire.....How embarrassed was I! Even if I couldn’t I wanted to try as hell, fit myself in the window adjacent and jump from where I was :|
P.S: These are the times when I feel no remorse for not being in the "today's generation" and don't really mind being ancient!!!
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