Day 22: Already?

Yep people, it is already the 22th day. Time and tide wait for no man, or woman for that matter.

Anyway, I haven’t really thought of writing here, but I see that Merima is the only one so far who has so faithfully been putting up posts, so I decided to keep her company.

So far things have been both good and bad. As a coordinator, I wish I could have manage things better, especially in regard of the schedule. The schedule has undergone changes quite a few times, since our teachers have been busy with their other responsibilities. And when one teacher asks me to change his or her time slot, then other teachers’ time will be affected as well. For example today was hectic (for me at least), with the class has to be changed to another place since the seminar at API today used our classroom (how they mixed that up I do not know, we had that room since the beginning), while  one teacher could not make it on time, another asking to change his time slot and we had to move  the Tafsir exam to an earlier time, and the Ibadah class for girls had to be canceled since the instructor could not make it tonight.

I really do not like it when classes are disrupted like that. I guess it could not be helped sometimes, and this is the only day when too many things happened at once. Otherwise on most days it is okay. Sometimes (very rarely, though I wish it could be oftener) I join the students in their lesson. I just sit at the back of course, not actually part of the class and get to leave when I want heheh. I think the students are very lucky, to be able  to learn like this, and especially from such great teachers. I never had such opportunity. That is why I feel very guilty when a class has be canceled or if the teacher cannot make it on time, because I believe the students deserve every minute that they spend here to receive more knowledge. But like I said some thing cannot be helped and I guess in the long run everything happened for the best.

The visits to the Islamic schools during the second week were very beneficial, even for us Malaysians. I think we should have such visits in the future summer camps as well. We have many more great schools, and we can go and see different ones each year, what do you think? The summer camp participants will learn much from these visits, and it will be good for the community of the schools, especially the students to meet with people from other places, especially from foreign countries. I know from experience that these students do not really mix much with people outside their own group, so it will be a good exposure to them.

We do not have as many study visits as we did last year i think, because we have more subjects and the schedule is rather packed. I saw that in the beginning the students were quite tired, as they adjusted themselves to the time, weather, food, people and classes.  I’m not sure whether they were expecting that, but the next year’s participants cannot expect anything less! But I think this is how it should be. You do get time to relax, and go see places and such, but since the main reason to be here is to learn, then we should use time to the fullest. Now that the days are slipping away, I hope everyone will use the time they have left to learn more. Who knows when else you guys will be able to have such opportunity.

I see that my thoughts are quite random. Since I have not written anything before, I wanted to say a lot of things, but the ones above are the utmost in my thoughts.