Third week at the future center

Monday 28 April, 2014

For our third week, we went early to the Future Center. We took our cards as usual and we met our Community Service teacher, Mr. Gregory, and then we all went to our classes. We did the morning ring and discussed many things about the Arabic language, mathematics, science and also 5 minutes of developing the pronunciation. After that, I started the mathematics class by going around the class and helping Mr. Mohammed and Ms. Nadia with teaching some new topic and revising some old topics, and I also corrected some papers with the teachers. I kept doing that until it was 10:00 am, I helped the students to get their food ready and after that I left because I had a class on 15 minutes.


Wednesday 30 April, 2014

After asking the Statistical mathematics teacher for a permission to leave the class early, we went immediately to the future center. Once we tool the cards, we rushed to our classes so we can reach on time. There was a new English teacher with Mr. Mohammed and Ms. Nadia, teaching the children how to buy things from the supermarket, she had some chocolate, chips and juice. Each student came by him self and picked what he wants, they learned how to ask politely and how to pay without getting fooled. After that, we all went to pray at the next room. After we finished, the students went to the busses and I waited for Sultan Al Marar's dad to come and pick him up. We finished the day at the future center with extreme happiness because we are helping the community. 

Second week at the future center

Monday 21 April, 2014

When we reached the future center at 8:00 am, we took our cards and joined the classes immediately. We did the morning ring and reminded each other of the day, month, year and we also reminded each other of the days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday.. etc). After that, each student went to his chair and desk and we started solving the mathematics problems. I sat with Sultan Al Marar, an Emirati disable child (14 years old) to start working together. We started with the number from 1 to 15, adding and subtracting and counting. Sultan did a great unusual job, he was the best on that day. At the end, each student brought his plate and spoon and they started having their breakfast, everyone was happy and hyper that day!!

Wednesday 23 April, 2014

As a group, none of us went on that day because some of the volunteers had an appointment with their sponsor, so we wanted to stay on the same schedule.

My first week at the Future Center

Day 1/ Monday, April 14th, 2014

We have reached the future center at 8:00 am and it was our first day, Ms. Anjum showed us the place and distributed us into different classes. My first class was with Ms. Nadia and Mr. Mohammed, they asked me to introduce my self to them and to the students, I have told them who I am and what I am doing here. They welcomed me and it didn't take them a lot of time to break the borders with me, I felt comfortable and the first minutes were amazing!

The first class is the mathematics class, they are still young but I can feel that they are no different than us, they can solve even better than us!
We spent the day practicing simple math problems (addition) except for one student who mastered the multiplication topic.


Day 2/ Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

We have reached the Future Center at 12:00 pm (we asked our Statistics teacher if we can leave before the class ends cause we have volunteering and he agreed). We took our volunteering cards and started our classes, the second class for me was Arabic. The class was interesting because I saw the teachers teaching the students how to pronounce the words correctly, the learn so fast but sometimes they are shy. The class ended at 1 pm and the students left, I have waited for the students until they all left at 1:40 pm.

We are not allowed to take any pictures yet..