Japanese and Indonesian lesson

It's been a very busy month, although I had a holiday for a week (Lebaran Holiday). I've been focusing too much on other homeworks. Also, I had difficulties in transportation and going my student's place since it was a Islamic holiday. However I tried my best to approach to my students and teach them.

Indonesian lesson with Mr. Nakamichi:

Saturday September 4th

Mr. Nakamichi couldn't attend to the lesson due to his busy schedule (he had to go to Malaysia for his business) So I was not able to achieve my CAS this day.

Monday September 13th

Finally, I was able to meet Mr. Nakamichi after the Lebaran. The lesson went smooth, indeed, we had so much fun interacting. This day, I did the review for everything what I've been teaching him just to make sure that he understands. It was really fun to a review and see how much he understands. It was very impressive how Mr. Nakamichi is starting to understand and memorize words. He has been practicing a lot. He is also improving in grammar.

Japanese lesson:

Friday August 27th

I have started teaching the Japanese lesson with Jacklyn. It was our first meeting and I've been observing what she could do so far. She was already able to read and write the Japanese alphabet, Katakana and Hiragana. She says that she wants to start learning calligraphy or Kanji, grammar, speaking and listening in Japanese. I tried talking to her in Japanese and seems that she still struggles somehow but understands to concept. So my goal now is to help her with speaking and listening fluently in Japanese. For Kanji I will teach her later on step by step. It took two hours in this meeting. 

Friday September 24

It was our second meeting, since Jacklyn had been busy during the holiday in the mid-September. I made a powerpoint slide show for her and learned from the very basic. I taught her greetings and manners in Japanese such as good morning, good afternoon and so on. I helped her in pronunciation. It was easy to fix her because it seems like she has been trying her best to learn Japanese. I have spent 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

Evaluation

I learned a lot by teaching others. I'm really glad to choose these two activities for my service in this CAS program. It makes me feel very happy because I can finally help others by using my own skills. It is very challenging and hard to teach but it is actually me, myself that is learning more than my students.