Candle Light Teaching
Posted by learnmore on May 7th, 2008
This story is about my experience when I taught English in Bekasi in 1996. Bekasi is located in suburban area of Indonesian capital city, Jakarta.
Bekasi had become a developing city at that time, the institution where I taught fully depended on electricity supplied by government infrastructure. I taught my students as usual at that night, but the electricity suddenly went out. The students gave different reactions to the situation, some became restless, some laughed and boo the class, and there were some who teased female students too by imitating ”ghost” noise. The lesson was still about an hour to go so I had to find a solution, and candles were the emergency exit !. Helped by students, I lit candles and put them on every chair where they sat. The students were happy to have this unexpected experience, and it had become memorable experience for me too: people have it for romantic candle light dinner, my students and I had it for candle light studying.