Day #1 Future Centre

     According to our plan we should start today our volunteering project, First we had a little problem about the place of the centre but at the end we found it and, and I'm so excited start my first day with kids and I was a little nervous to be honest.

     As soon as we got there we signed in and then Mrs. Anjum took us to our classes, I was with Mrs. Rachel a kind woman, when I entered the class there was a silent moment in the class and the reason is because they were misbehaving and laughing and talking with loud voices, so Mrs. Rachel punished the student by a silent moment, when they finished the silent moment I interduce myself to them and I can see how happy and excited they are, then every student introduce himself to me and I notice that they're from different nationalties and different ages but they were happy to see me and the same thing to me, during the silent moment the students should be quiet and Mrs. Rachel played a music and the students should imagine what this song about and to swim in their imagination then they have to share their imagination with the rest of the class, I notice that all of them have a really big imagination! they have really great ideas about the music.

     So, when the students finished the imagination part Mrs. Rachel told me to help Mohamed, Ayqal and Hanlon in the reading part, Mohamed was about 9 years old he read good but he have maybe a little problem with some words and sometimes he can't read for 3 seconds then he continue reading, so I helped him with the hard words, Ayka is a little bit naughty boy but thats how the kids act, I helped him with counting the numbers he wanted to finish quickly but I insist to teach him how to count the numbers and to recognise the dogs and the cats from the pictures. Than, I helped Hanlon with reading his story, he's a cute boy who have down syndrome, he told me that he love to read and I start to chat with him, he knows some arabic word such as Salam Alaikm which is the greetings in Islam and he know Shukrn which means thank you, and what I notice that he know how to write shukrn in arabic, not very good but he tried his best, then I taught him the right way to write shukrn and then I taught him how to write his name in Arabic! he was really happy with it and he's a good boy, then we started to read the story together and in 10 minutes we finished the story, then I helped Tomas and he's very good at reading and have a great british accent, he started reading and I was amazed with his way of reading and the accent and the hard words he can read it with no problems. I'm really glad that I'm helping the kids in the centre and I consider myself as a brother or a friend to them.