Last Wednesday, I had the second meeting with Clemencia, my partner for the community service. I was more confident than the first one because my partner and I had a perfect start last time. Last meeting, we just introduced and learned about each other. In this meeting, we were focus on our main purpose – learning how to use internet and learning English.
I was waiting for her at the computer area in the Rec Center. I powered up the computer and checked everything to make sure that our meeting would be going well. Here she came!
After a brief “Hello” and “How are you?” we started our first lesson. She asked me to teach her how to check and send emails. However, she did not remember her password. I thought “well, this is not good, not good at all!” Password was the most important thing for email like keys to open the doors. Luckily, she found it after going through all of the small folded pieces of paper in her handbag. Now she could log in. “Oh! My God! You have 1047 unchecked emails in your inbox.” I could not believe in my eyes. Therefore, I needed to show her how to delete all the unnecessary emails first.
After deleting all the unimportant and expired emails, she asked me how to send emails to other people. I showed her how to do it step by step and asked to repeat doing it for two or three times so that she could remember it. After remembering it by heart, she composed her first email to her Dad. I was moved by her piousness. She showed me that family was always important to her. I believed that it was not just only true for me but also for everyone. She told me that “my Dad will be surprised when he receives my email.” With a big smile on her face, I realized how happy she was when she sent her first email to her Dad. I felt proud of myself for helping her. I did such a tiny thing but it was a huge happiness for her.
After showing her all about emails, I showed her how to read the news and look for weather. She had an idea about that already, so it was easy for me to teach her.
At the end, I showed her some good websites to learn English. I asked her to do some of the exercises and she did them pretty well. I gave her some of the exercise to do at home and we said “good bye! Have a nice day to each other” ^^
Leaving the Rec Center with a big smile, I felt really happy because I could help her a lot. Those things that I helped her seemed simple but it was necessary and important to her. From now, she could use emails to community and build relationships with her friends and her family. She also could improve her English as well. It was such a successful meeting.
P.S: I also recorded how she was doing her emails, hope everyone enjoy it. :D
