A class photo…

Please meet one of my classes…

Well half of them anyway. Yesterday we had the last lecture for the semester and subject and for some reason half of the students decided not to turn up (definitely a PNG thing). The students in the photo are both 2^nd and 3^rd year Business degree students. The “B. Bus” in PNG runs for four years and students can choose to major in : Accounting, Management, Economics or Commercial Computing. I have been working with this group since I arrived at UNITECH and it has been interesting to say the least. I have mentioned before that the teaching side of things has been challenging but I have really enjoyed it. It is difficult to get a response from the students at the best of times….   but yesterday I succeeded : they actually stood up to have there photo taken !!!   As it was the last lecture we did’nt go over any new material and “we had us” some fun !!!   I started the lecture with the Nike Ad : “Life is Short” – for those that were there this is the film clip I showed at John’s 40^th (my brother).For those of you that were’nt there : bad luck !!

 I always start my lectures with a bit of a general “chat”, well I do all the talking. I have told them that they are the key to the challenges facing PNG as they will all find themselves in positions where they will be able to make a difference. I think the message is getting through. They are all hard workers and have incredible workloads, sometimes they work thru the night to get assignments in and as a rule are studying seven days and nights a week. The students from accounting have invited me out this Thursday for their end of semester “bash”. We are headed off to a night club close by and one of the other staff will also be going. Should be fun.

Shall we dance ???

 Just one more thing on the students : they have very interesting names. This is generally the case in PNG, people have the most amazing names. To give you an example here are some of the names of students in my class (1^st names) :  Hedwig, Rejoice, Levi, Perthy, Brown, Polycarp, Dokara, Benny, Job, Celestine.

 Got an interview to prepare for….