Reflection

I think I did learn a lot by taking this course plus I had an absolutely great lecturer. I was so surprised that Mukhriz Mahadhir was one of his students and I bet he even still respects and remember my lecturer until today! Through this blog activity too, I found out that I do change from time to time. Actually this is not the first time we were given this kind of task. I still remember the first time I was doing this task. I do not even know what I should write. Most of the time, I tend to look for the information in the internet and give some opinions before publish it and that’s all. In contrast to what I am doing right now, I often do not realize that I have written much more than what I used to even though this time my lecturer did not give to us the specific topics to write.

However, I sometimes do not know am that I doing the right thing or not because some of my friends told me that they write critically in their blog. On the other hand, I do not really know whether mine is as critical as theirs or not. What would others think of me when they read my blog….I hope I am on the right track. Plus, all the things that I write in my blog are in fact what I think, felt and understand from this course and not other people’s ideas or writing.

Yet, I think by involving in this kind of activity does encourage me to write. It has been a quite time that I do not write a diary. I guessed this blogging stuff at least help me write something that had happened in my life. In addition, I think it does sounds great when telling people that you have to write blog in your course. It is not just like writing a journal in the book where not many people can view or read it. Again, I think this activity is absolutely a great experience to me.

Martin Luther’s speech

Any normal man in his world can speak but not all of us can really deliver a speech and be a god speaker. Some of the not so good speakers that I have seen tend to just read the texts that they have prepared rather than speak and face the audience. In some of their speech too always have hesitations, pauses, and some like to do some sort of things that I do not think an appropriate one to do when we are giving speeches. Well, the main aim for us to give speech is to let the audience know what we are trying to say and most probably let them influence by what we said, right? I think Martin Luther’s speech is absolutely an inspiring one.

Personally, I think I might cry if I were at the time he was giving the speech because I just read his speech today and I can feel the aura that it brings. His speech even seemed to be like an art in its own way. For example in the register he used in his speech like cash a check, promissory note, bank of justice is bankrupt and insufficient funds. There are parts in his speech that have words that have opposites and it looks like a poem. Some of the lines are it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity and symbolic shadow…light of hope. These lines definitely shows to me how creative he is because when I write a speech, I tend to just write what it needs, the information needed and not ever I thought of making the information in such ways. It would be so interesting if someone can gives speech like Martin Luther no matter what are the issues that they want to highlight.

What would you image yourself as a literature teacher?

To me, it was quite difficult to answer that question. Well, I am not a real teacher yet. I do not think I can describe what could I image as before I experience it first. Plus, I do not really like when people think that I talk more than what I did or, my description is so much like fairy tales where in reality, I never were the same person as I imagine I am.
I guessed Dr Edwin asked us this question so that we can have an aim to achieve, to struggle to be. At least there are images that we want to be in our job and not just doing it blindly. When we discussed about this issue, some of my friends described themselves as being clown, ironed shirt, bulb light and many more in teaching literature. I myself imaged me as a director in a movie or drama series. It is where my students would be the actors and actresses and they are the product of the learning since people will see their acting in that story while I as the director, works at the back of the screen but still I am very important for them to be successful.

Yet, I have slightly disagreement when one of my friends described herself as a doctor. It is because not all the students want to see ‘doctor’ even though they are sick; I mean their English are weak. Doctors absolutely can give any medicine that is suitable for the patient but if the patients are reluctant to see them, how can the medicine gat in hands?

Nevertheless, it is definitely no matter what we describe ourselves as literature teachers because I think as long as our students get what we are teaching them and they enjoy the lesson, it would just be fine.