MY EXPERIENCE IN POKHARA
I
I had a great
opportunity to go to ‘’Pokhara’’ in last week of January with my family for the
week. I had never been to Pokhara before. I had not travelled that much outside
the Kathmandu.
The programme for the Pokhara was like an accident. Mom and I, we had never been to Pokhara. So, how this trip became accident was because of mom. Dad was talking in the phone about the visit to Pokhara for the programme called ‘’ENGLISH ACCESS MICROSCHOLARSHIP’’. So, mom proposed dad to take us to Pokhara by jokingly. And he agreed.
We left
Kathmandu on 25th January, 2013. Mom and I travelled through the bus
with the student of ‘’ENGLISH ACCESS
MICROSCHOLARSHIP’’ and dad went through plane on next day. The student had
winter camp on Pokhara.
Although, it was
great fun to travel with the kid but I didn’t know anyone so there was no
possible for two way reaction and communication. By viewing the scenes and by
eating, the travel was fun. Moreover, there was dance and singing in the bus which
made travel enjoyable. By this way, we reached Pokhara around 5pm.
Students from
Gorkha, Birgunj, Kathmandu and Butwal were present in this winter camp.
Altogether, there were 160 students participating in this winter camp.
Around 8pm,
there was dinner at Mount Kailash. The food was excellent. There were varieties
of food which made no complain on the food. After dinner, there was the
orientation class for the student. The orientation was given by the national
coordinator Shyam Pandey of ‘’ENGLISH ACCESS
MICROSCHOLARSHIP’’. He explained what to do and what they are going to do
in this winter camp.
My room partner
was Anita Devkota. So, after orientation, we returned back to the room and
slept.
Next day, we
woke up at 7am. After refreshment, we went to Mount Kailash. There was yoga
class and it ran upto 8:30am. We reached lately in the yoga class. After yoga,
we went for the breakfast but the breakfast was heavy. After breakfast, Anita, me,
mom and dad’s two friends went for the outing.
Around 9:15am,
we reached Fewa Taal. I really enjoyed the boating. But unfortunately, we
couldn’t see whole Fewa Taal. We couldn’t go all around of the Taal. If we did
then it could be more adventurous but we couldn’t. We reached upto the temple
only.
After Fewa Taal,
we went to Davis Fall. According to the sources, one person was taking bath in this
fall and he died or lost in this fall after falling in the water. So after his
name, it was formed. If somebody goes inside the water, they cannot be found.
After visiting
Davis Fall, we went in one of the cave. I really forgot the name of the cave.
The cafe was opposite of Davis Fall. When I entered the cave, the cave was
dark. Although there was light, it was dark. When I saw the darkness, I thought
I will be lost inside the cave. But the most interesting part of the cave was
that there was small temple. It looked so beautiful. At first, I was amazed
because in the cave, how the temple is made. This small temple made the cave
more beautiful.
But when I went
there for the second time with students, I found one more interesting thing. In
one direction of the cave, there was artificial cow kept. When marble is kept
inside the cow, then milk is dropped and our wish is fulfilled.
On Sunday, we
family with dad’s friends, we went to Seven Lakes at evening. We reached there
around 16:46pm. The lake looked so beautiful at night time that I cannot
explain. When the sun gets reflected on the lake it looks so beautiful that everyone
starts looking at it only. But when I saw the horses, I wanted to ride it but
couldn’t because it was too dark so we retuned back.
But I was not
feeling well on this day after I sat on the car. The windows were and there was
no possible of air entering inside the car. I felt sophisticated and wanted to
do vomit. But on the way, I didn’t do but when i returned hotel, I did vomit
many times. Nothing controlled me. Even medicine didn’t handle me. This
condition made me feel to return back to Kathmandu.
Due to vomit, I
was not able to wake up in the morning. I felt tried and weak. My body was
paining and felt sleepy. We went to Fewa Taal again. I didn’t enjoy because of
tiredness and weakness.
But in the
evening, it was great fun because there was the programme of folk singing.
There were guests for singing folk songs. All the students and teachers started
dancing which made me too dance. I never dance like that before. Now I started
loving dance. Even foreign people too started dancing. Although they didn’t
understand the language of folk songs but they start in their own way. They
danced so actively and they enjoyed a lot in our folk songs. But the most
important part in this entertainment was the dance of Dr. Matrix who was 77
years old. She danced so actively that I was shocked. I was shocked because if
there were any Nepalese women who is 77 years old will she able to dance or
not?
We visit some
places in Pokhara but the places I visited, I loved the places. As a whole I
loved the place Pokhara. It is so clean that for a week no one will be dirty.
The clothes won’t be as dirty as in Kathmandu. There is no crowd in Pokhara. If
we see in Kathmandu, there is crowd and polluted. Pokhara is the place of
heaven.
II
The winter camp programme
of “ENGLSIH ACCESS MICROSCHOLARSHIP” was
very effective to every teacher and students. It teaches how to teach the
students and how to motivate the student.
The lecturers
were National and International. International lecturer teaching skills are so different
from national one. They used chart papers and other materials to teach the
students.
They make the students participate in the learning. They involve the
students in the subject matters so the students can grow their confident level
and grow their knowledge. They make their students grow their skills. But we
Nepalese are backward in teaching skills. We use only books besides that we don’t
use anything in the class. We don’t go out of the box.
Before they
start the subject, they ask the students what they think about the subject
matters. Students and teachers share the knowledge. Teachers take the perception
of students. They don’t bother about the answers whether they give right or
wrong. There is the interaction between students and teachers which helps
students in speaking. These kinds of teaching help students be more creative
and help in the skills of writing and presenting.
The most important
is that they gave group discussion which helps in the further life. It helps to
work in group and team. The students will know how to work in group and in the
team. They shall know each other discussions and opinion which helps to give
good impact in the result.
After seeing the
different presentation, I felt that our teaching skills should be changed. The
teachers should use different materials for teaching. They should break the
traditional factor and implementation new changes like computer. There should
be interaction between teachers and students so that they both can learn from
each other. After interaction, both can learn their mistakes and can discussion
what to do next. Teachers should make students do different activities so that
the confident level will grow and grow their creative skills.
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